Friday, May 1, 2008

Cathy helped us usher in the month of May with knitting at the Reed Ranch this morning. We had a wonderful morning and talked about a lot of different stuff. Some of it veered off the topic of knitting and although I usually try to keep this blog focused on knitting, I'm breaking that rule today because I can post links for a lot of what we discussed.

Kathleen and Cathy, who is modeling Kathleen's newest creation, a Tuscan Lace Scarf knit from one of the One Skein Wonders books. Kathleen is a fearless new knitter!
It's not done yet, but Priscilla is in the process of putting together a stuffed lamb. The way I just phrased it I made it sound like dinner, but it's actually a very cute stuffed animal, just in time for the Easter season!

Mary is using her shopping bag! Today she brought it to knitting loaded with her knitting supplies!

And Cathy finished her shopping bag too. The handle hardware is to compensate for running out of yarn, but she wasn't happy with how the straps turned out, and we talked about other options. So to find out whether she'll keep it as is, or improvise with new strap hardware . . . . stay tuned!

In other news . . . we talked about computer-related stuff. After I showed Priscilla, Mary, and Patty how to set up a MyYahoo page the other day, Priscilla arrived this morning with suggestions for new internet home pages, specificially iGoogle and Netvibes. I took a look and they are very cool! I also found another one that appears to be similar to Netvibes, called Pageflakes. And I found a site called Mashable that reviews 14 home page options, including the four already mentioned.

Kathleen, who has a blog for her CakeVase, showed me her Twitter on her iPhone. I've been thinking about Twitter lately, wondering what I should do, so I came home after knitting and signed up. I have absolutely no idea what to do with it, but it's a start!

We talked about different ways to publish a blog other than Blogger, and I mentioned WordPress and another blog publisher that starts with a V, although now that I'm home and have checked, for the life of me I can't find it. Oh, and we talked about a book by Arianna Huffington about blogging, and I got the title wrong so here's a link to it on Amazon that should clear things up.

Now, onto more serious business and a plug for Brad. I mentioned how Schick is partnering with the new Hugh Jackman movie to promote a razor. Doing a quick Google search, I've found a Schick Quattro Titanium X-Men Origins contest, a commercial, a sweepstakes, and a trailer. And while we're on the subject of Hugh Jackman (like the segue?) as I mentioned today, Peter and I got to see Hugh Jackman in The Boy From Oz in the summer of 2004. His performance was amazingly charismatic. Peter, this one's for you, because I found a clip of Hugh Jackman singing and dancing a song from the play, in character, at the Tony Awards. It's really fun and worth the 6 minutes.

Ok, and finally I keep saying I'll post the photos of our new house and here they are. It's way more photos than I am sure you care to see, but we posted all we had just to keep things simple.

And that's it! Next week we're at Mary's. I won't be able to be there, but I'll see everyone the following week at Elizabeth's for the second annual May knitting happy hour!