The last few months have been a bear, lots and lots of time at work, and the beginning of me needing to stretch my wings in a fairly extreme way.  And there is a lot more coming down the pike.  (and a big thank you owed to ErikO for helping me out)

I dislike falling off the planet which I have done quite a big of. I am planning on re-instituting regular events at the house.  Probably mostly craft days to start  . . . I’ll post here as soon as I have confirmed dates – probably look to have them start in February.

Hope everyone had a good new years, ours was pretty quiet – about all I could handle. Evan and I have spent the last few days vegging quietly at home which has been really nice.

Some summer highlights:

Tomatoes from the garden are 200% better than tomatoes from the store. I might never eat them from the store again.

Almost everyday, in my head, I thank all my friends who helped me build my garden. So now I’ll do it outside my head: Thank you!!! So very much!!!

Took a photography class with Franklin Habit at Loopy Yarns, AWESOME!

Had a house concert for Sooj which many of you came to.

On new (added) meds for my ADD which has resulted in major sleep disturbance. Its hard to concentrate with so little sleep, so its hard to evaluate the meds.

Have dyed my hair funny colors and gotten my ears re-pierced. I think I am worrying about getting old.

Fallen in love with a new (for me) tv show, Friday Night Lights. I haven’t liked a show this much since Buffy. Insert days of squeeing here. GGood stories, stong women, great characters, and lots of pretty – boys and girls and scenery, yum yum yum . . . Okay I’ll stop now before I get too out of control.

Got Seanan McGuire’s new book. Just started reading it – enjoying it muchly.

Knitting is happening, lots of socks. Maybe pictures and possibly even a proto-pattern soon.

Want to make some earings – might need help with this.

My birthday is coming soon, I think I am closer to 40 than I’d like to be.

Scheduling craft and music days again, but not till 2010.

And I think that is probably enough for one post. Have to leave something for the next one!

Concert was awesome!! I am not a good media reviewer, I tend to want to just jump up and down and squee.  And this concert was definitely squee-worthy. Soon (and assuming permissions) we’ll be able to make some of the video we took available, probably on you tube. I just have to figure out this new fangled video thingie – good thing I work where i do .

Sooj and K were lovely houseguests. Yesterday was very restful for Evan and I as we laid around and recovered from the weekend.

Post-concert the house is cleaner than it has been for a LONG LONG time. Which we will desperately try to goad ourselves into maintaining. We have reconfigured the house somewhat, what was the “office” aka  “huge pile of crap”, is now an nice open space with a couch and lots of windows.  What other furniture that is in that room (a china cabinet and some desk bits) will mostly move out over the next few months. With one less couch in the living room, and more spread out seating, the whole front of the  house feels much more roomy. It made fitting in the 35 people or so we had for the concert fairly easy, and I think it will allow us to host a few kinds of events that in the past were kind of a problem – like game days.

Sorry for the late reminder!

Saturday Febrary 23 – 1 pm

Alyse & Evan’s House (email me or comment if you need directions or more info)

Feel free to bring any hand-craft project that doesn’t need a whole room to do. Most seating is “couch-like”, but if you need a table, or a more straight backed chair just let me know ahead of time and we’ll set one up. Please also bring a small “potluck” item for everyone to snack on. I will of course be providing “something” and drinks.

For those who still remain at dinner time, we generally order in dinner later in the evening.

PLEASE RSVP!!!

Future Craft Days:
You can find the public calendar of events here.

The dates for this years events will be:

March 16th Hypertufa
March 29 – Craft Day
April 26 – Graham Leather’s Concert
May 24 – Craft Day
June 28 – Craft Day
July 26 – Concert (I think)
August 30 – Craft Day
September 6 – Yarn dyeing day
Sept 20 – Craft Day
October 25 – Music

You can find out more about events at our house at my website. You can also find out more about Craft-Days.

If you want to get these announcements in your email you can go to here to sign up.