My dear friend in adventurous crafting Karen, author & inspiration Kathleen Taylor, and myself at Athena's Fibers in Sioux Falls, SD, at a book signing. I of course didn't reserve a copy of her book in advance, so I didn't get her to sign anything for me but I did get my picture taken with her! I since ordered two of her knitting books, Knit One, Felt Too and I (Heart) Felt, which are amazingly easy to understand even for a novice knitter like me. Apparently she was a fiction writer previously and she recommended I start with The Hotel South Dakota because that was when she "really hit her writing stride." And that one came today in the mail! Yea!

LYS trip today!!!

I am so excited - a friend & I are going to Sioux Falls to Athena's Fibers, our first trip to an official yarn store! We're going for the book signing that Kathleen Turner is doing, I checked out her Knit One, Felt Too from the library and love it so much I'm hoping Athena's has it to buy also. I've got several projects marked that I want to purchase yarn for... the challenge is finding the time to do them in the midst of everything else I want to do! Oh yeah - and do other mundane things like clean & do laundry, etc. :)

I'm hoping to post some pics of my current knitting WIPs on my next post, and maybe even include a pic of my craft room too... which means I need to get my butt moving & get it organized. :)

My Favorite Websites

I need to figure out how to add buttons, but until I do I'll just list some of my favorite websites.

www.artbeads.com
www.firemountaingems.com
www.knittinghelp.com
www.ravelry.com
www.lionbrand.com
www.greenmountaincoffee.com
www.theflightacademy.com
www.knitpicks.com

In the beginning, there was nothing.

As far as I know, the internet really doesn't exist to be able to touch it or for it to have an actual permanent place it can be found, yet it has taken such a prominent place in our lives that so many people, myself included, would have a hard time living without it. Having said that, I've decided it's time to expand my own horizons and start my own blog. I have no idea what I'm doing. That will be extremely apparent as I continue, but I'm taking a leap into the unknown anyway. My plans for my blog are for this to be a place to keep a record of my variety of hobbies and list my favorite websites... but that could very well change. After all, life is all about change.

And so the journey begins.