One day when Rob and I first started dating, I made him an Orange Julius. He was so impressed that he married me (:-P — kidding, I don’t think that is why he married me). He was impressed enough to ask for the recipe, though. 18 years later, he doesn’t have a picture of me in his wallet, but he still has the Orange Julius Recipe… 
Edit: I just had to edit this post. I had written 14 years… :-/ Gah, now I feel old
April 09 2008 | journaling and recipes | 2 Comments »
Ahhh Local Politics are great…
My “I voted” sticker — Crappy Cell Pic:
I helped DD #1 study for her Social Studies test tomorrow, and one of the things she had to study was that the 15th Amendment came about right after the civil war, and says that NO ONE can be denied the right to vote because of their race, color, or if they had previously been a slave or not. I think the right for women to vote was a while after that (The 19th Amendment, in fact), but she still thought it was interesting, because I had voted just today. 
April 09 2008 | journaling and vote | 2 Comments »
I made an attempt at felting recently, and I loved it.
Here is an image of my recent attempt at felting:
The headband did not felt up like I had hoped, though, but I did not give up. I’ve recently discovered that despite my wool allergy, I am able to crochet and wear wool (So maybe the allergy is gone — this I’m not sure??) Anyway… I’ve longed to try felting, but thought I would never be able to. I realize that winter is over, and Spring has Sprung, but I’ve found a NEW LOVE — Felted Wool. I crocheted another wool headband, and gave felting another try. This time, instead of handwashing with hot water, I actually ran a small load in my washer on HOT. I put the headband in the wash with a full cup of detergent.
Here is the headband with flower before felting:
I then put in several pairs of jeans with the headband and let them wash the full cycle. Then, I put them all in the dryer, and to my astonishment, I had actually accomplished felting! I was so excited that I threw the headband that I had attempted to felt earlier in a hot wash with some jeans, and got the same wonderful results. I have plans for a LOT more felting in the near future! YAAY for FELTED WOOL!
Here are both headbands after felting:
Close-ups of the Felted Fabric of the Headbands:
I was surfing through some crochet sites on stumbleupon.com today, and I found some felted tapestry crocheted hats I would love to try. I’m not quite to that point yet, but I am definitely becoming addicted to wool and felt!
April 09 2008 | Yarn and allergy and crochet and dreadband and felted wool and headband and wool | No Comments »
