Holiday dishes

With Christ-nukkah around the corner and lots if entertaining at the cottage, I did an inventory (opened the cupboard) and realised I am seriously lacking in any type of serving dishes there. So I stopped by the thrift store and picked up what I like to think of as ‘somebody’s grandma’s heirlooms’…. Not my heirlooms, […]

Holy Crap!!!!

wow, I can’t even believe what is happening….. Last month, a stylist came to take pictures of my kitchen and fell in love with my knitted chairs, so she blogged about them  (it’s in french) Then, I sent a link to my blog to Better After, one of my absolute favorite re-do blogs, and look […]

Rescued Telephone Bench

A few months back, my husband and I were driving in the car when I jumped out at a red light and shoved this in the truck of his car: It was so…. worn out! But the lady in the car behind us, who had to wait while I closed the truck, gave me a […]

Desk chair

Last week there was a big kitchen photo-shoot at my house and they also snapped pics of my eldest’s room (she has a funky mural) . But her sad standard desk chair was an eye sore, so for photo purposes, we took the funky striped knitted chair from youngest’s room. Which lead to a big […]

Susie’s chair: done!

Last week, I delivered Suzie’s finished chair. This is how it turned out; The 3rd one is the chair after delivery, in it’s spot.

Almost done!

Yesterday, Susan’s chair got 3 coats of Oxford White. But it wasn’t popping enough for my taste. So after a little email pow-wow with the owner of the chair, I added a coat of varnish and, POP! This morning, I added a layer of cotton batting on top of the fabric. Sort of goes against […]

Progress

Had to start over a couple of times because the cables were *eating* yarn! I was on track for 24 skeins! But much bigger needles and a good slip cover to mask the looseness of the knit and now we are in business.

suzie’s chair, part 1

When I started knitting chairs last winter, my friend Suzie was in the process of buying a house. She came with me to the charity auction, but I told her not to buy my white chair. Instead, in exchange for a donation to my cancer fundraising, I would knit her a custom chair. Not long […]

Party: done!

The Harry Potter party is over and I am now suffering from post-party depression…. here are some non-kid-featuring pics of some of the set up…. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mortimersmom/sets/72157627304949216/

Cake: done!