Slacker! And other nonsensical things.

Wow, it's been awhile. Things have been alternately busy and not busy, but I never do seem to mosey over here. Crafts have been going well...I hope to upload some pictures soon. I've made another (much smaller) turtle, a Waldorf-style doll, a lamb, and several other little bitty things.

I've actually suffered from a rather grave disease that has kept me from focusing on little else...

Libraritis noun: inflammation of the library; a condition causing itchiness and the need to acquire more books beyond one's capacity to keep them.

I found this fabulously nifty site through Real Simple magazine - paperbackswap.com - and since finding it, I've done little else but search for books, send out books, receive books and peruse said books. If you like to read, you might check this out...I have found many hard to locate editions and overall, I've saved a ton...which, as they say, is priceless. :-D

Oh, oh, and I can't forget to tell you that your first three selections require no trades...which means you can pretty much try it risk-free.

Miss Cake

I know a very lovely young lady whose care I am occasionally entrusted with. I have been watching her on and off since she was about sixteen months old, before she was talking intelligibly. She has always been a very bright child and has a wonderful sense of humour.

A few months back, she looked at me when I arrived at her home to watch her, and started laughing uproariously. I asked her what was so funny (as usually when she gets into fits of laughter the most fantastical stories follow in explanation), but this time she said my name over and over again breathlessly. "Miss Kate, Miss Kate!" she said, "Miss Kate, I thought your name was Miss Cake!"

And all along I had thought this was the product of a child's unaccustomed tongue...but no, she thought I was named after a confection. She still calls me Miss Cake, saying, "Miss Cake should make me cupcakes and tea! I like Miss Cake!"

So I've named this blog for her - she of many other stories soon to come.

Turtle!!!

My onliest third crochet project. I'm quite proud of him, although he has no mouth. The first two were cats whom I made from a pattern, but this guy (who due to his lack of mouth has yet to tell me his name) was made entirely from my own mind. YAY crochet!