Forgive me, as I have not blogged regularly and thus driven my few visitors away for long periods of time.
I admire Claire Delacroix/Cross/Deborah Cooke over at her Alive & Knitting blog. She posts nearly every day (although I suspect she writes a bunch all at once and just sets the blog to post one a day). Her posts are insightful, original, and tend to inspire at least three second of deep, emotional insight in me. I’m amazed at her ability to associate things (such as ball winders, today’s topic) with the emotional (such as how to turn failures into successes). Color me shallow, because I can only make those connections after a ”I should have had a V-8″ moment.
Which is why my blog consists of odd observations out of moments of my life that are neither startling nor particularly unusual. But I attempt to entertain, nonetheless.
So, first off today, I’d like to say thanks to Claire/Deb for sending me prezzies in the mail today. See, she’s my dealer. First, she got me hooked on knitting and crocheting again. About three years ago I’d sold my yarn stash in a garage sale and never looked back. Then last year she poked and prodded and got me into it again. Since then, I’ve accumlated over 8 bins of yarn, much of which was enabled by her. “I’m going to the Spin-Rite outlet store today,” she’d email me on a drizzly morning. “Shall I pick you up 
anything?”
Next think I know, twenty-three balls of yarn show up on my doorstep. Or huge cones of soy wool in sunset colors.
Today she sent me some additional Bernat Satin to match up some she sent earlier. I have enough now to knit up a couple of emergency shelters for the next blizzard. At least we’ll be spotted in the white-out with the bright pinks that yarn has.
But, here’s the kicker, she included her next book in the package.
Kiss of Fire is due out on February 5th and is already getting rave reviews. Don’t believe me? Check out the two already posted on Barnes and Noble, go ahead, I’ll wait: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780451223272&itm=2
I’m pretty sure Ms. Cooke didn’t send those reviewers balls of yarn to influence their reviews.
Books and yarn. What a nice way to spend a cold winter’s evening.
(Oh, wait. I think I’m supposed to be writing too…)
