Huge fun! Use old socks to make playful creatures - not just monkeys! This guy has been named Rupert Snodgrass and his less-than-superhero persona is still evolving, since Luke just received him for his 7th birthday.

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We've got loads of little crayon bits saved up in our craft zone, just waiting for a good use - and here it is!  I stumbled upon this project one night and have been eager to try it out. It worked so well that I want to make another again very soon with what I've learned in this first try.

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I just finished listening to a great audiobook called Digging to America by Anne Tyler, read by Blair Brown. Loved it! It's about two couples who adopt babies from Korea. One couple is American and the other is Iranian. The story covers the lives of these two families that meet at the airport on "arrival day".

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In my Yahoo! Loom Class group there was a message about illusion knitting. I'd never heard of this before and set out to discover more about it. I found many very cool patterns for needle knitting, but none specifically for the Knifty Knitters or other knitting looms. Aha! A puzzle! I began to use bits and pieces of information from various needle patterns and loom knitting websites to develop my own pattern. After two slightly off attempts I had the concept down. This purse is made on the yellow 38 peg Knifty Knitter long loom.

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Very late last night I realized that it's my friend Paula's birthday. I began to write her a birthday email and a poem just fell out of my head and onto the screen. It was nothing great, just a goofy little rhyme, but it surprised me. I hadn't composed a poem since it was assigned in school and I told her so in the email.

Here's my beaut...

Think of you often but rarely write,
Hope your day's wonderful,
Morning 'til night!

She responded with a poem she'd written a while ago called "Snow Friends". Thanks, Paula!

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