Saturday, December 26, 2009

Darn It, Janet


Image from Craftzine

I've wanted to try my hand with darning: socks, sweater elbows, jean knees, etc... and have finally found a tutorial I'm interested in trying. See this Craftzine Blog here for the full tutorial.

I plan on reinforcing some threadbare elbows on a black sweater I retired last year. Perhaps bright orange embroidery thread? Maybe hot pink? We'll see, won't we?

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Friday, December 4, 2009

MeiMei


DSC_0096, originally uploaded by applesnhoney.

My Sistah.

First Lake, Hollyburn Ridge, Cypress Mountain, BC, Canada

Never Again Is What You Swore

I realised this week that my camera is dusty. I intend to rectify that this weekend as I've been a bit restless lately and need some creative release.

Let's see what the future holds.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

We missed you

I have been keeping SO busy working on Christmas presents and general crafty stuff & stuff. I can spend hours sleuthing for inspiration and free patterns online. I have found so many I don't know if I'll ever get to them all!

I've discovered a website designed to help keep your crochet & knitting projects organised:
Ravelry

I'm loving it! I definitely have NOT discovered the breadth of its usefulness but I've at least listed my current projects (selecting my patterns, wools, needles, etc... from Ravelry's huge database) If you sign up for a free account you can find me there under the name ApplesNHoney.

To make sure I don't need to try to remember all of the neato blogs and websites I've stumbled across lately I'm adding another box to the right side of my blog to list them all.

Maybe soon I can get myself organised to post some of my current projects!

Friday, October 23, 2009

Spooky



My new kitty! I named her Spooky.

ETA: I've actually given her a full name now:

Spooky Alexandria Lexi Von Skellington,
Second Cat of the House Narnia,
Duchess of All Hallows Eve

Monday, October 19, 2009

What I Would Do For You...


DSC_0149, originally uploaded by applesnhoney.



My little Salem is sick; she was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism last week. To combat this at the moment we (read: I) are feeding her 1/4 of a tiny pressed-tab of Tapazole twice a day hidden in a teaspoon of yogurt which is, fortunately, her favourite treat anyways. I am so so so thankful she hasn't noticed the pills yet as I'm told they have a horrible taste. I have to bring her back to the vet on November 7th to make sure that the dose is correct (cha-ching vets, yep that's another blood test you get to charge me for) and to check if she is a candidate for the (cross your fingers she's in the 95 percentile) permanent treatment that is available in 3 hospitals in Canada (I'm so glad I live in Vancouver). If she's a candidate she will be taken to the North West Nuclear Medicine for Animals Hospital and be given a radioactive iodine treatment . After that the government says I have to leave her at the hospital for a week so I don't ALSO become radioactive, then after she comes home I have to limit contact for two weeks during which time no kids or old people can come over.
This treatment will cost me $1500 base price (the pills are $40/month for the rest of her life and that means I really can't take a vacation without incurring huge cat-sitter fees or boarding costs). I can't not do it though. I love her more than anything else on this planet. So if Christmas doesn't make it to your door this year being carried by me I apologise ahead of time.

On top of all of this she is Potassium deficient so I've had to change her diet to include a breakfast of wet food to hide the potassium gluconate powder in. Fun times in our household.

On an upbeat note we're acquiring a new kitten for Salem to play with on Wednesday but I don't want to jinx myself by talking about it too much. So until then, adieu.

xoxox