Each year I always make these ambitious plans to knit all the things for the holidays. Inevitably I find myself running around like a crazy woman, shopping on Christmas Eve because nothing gets completed in time to gift. This year seemed to be heading towards more of the same until I rediscovered my love for bulky yarn and found some…
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r’s note: This post is sponsored by Verizon Fios as part of the #FIOSPhilly Campaign. All opinions found here are strictly my own. Shortly after we moved into our home I told The Librarian that we should have “people” over for the holidays. Thanksgiving would be the first major holiday in which families would travel to spend time with each other and this…
I usually don’t post about politics because I am not political, because I don’t know much about politics, because [fill in some other excuse], because I am scared of what someone somewhere might say. But then: BRITAIN: Brexit is the stupidest, most self-destructive act a country could undertake. USA: Hold my beer. — Brian Pedaci (@bpedaci) November 9, 2016 I…
According to space.com, this year, the full moons of October, November and December all take place when the moon is at its closest point of approach in its orbit around Earth — a so-called Supermoon. A Supermoon happens when a Full Moon or New Moon coincides with the Moon’s closest approach to Earth; also called perigee. In the Philadelphia area, moonrise…
Friday night yielded a welcome distraction from the results of Election of 2016: yarn and a book signing at Hidden River Yarns! Lars Rains, author, knitter and designer, was at the shop for two days to promote his books Presto and Modern Lopi. I knew that I would grabbing copies of the books (because books!) but I did not think…