Chickadee Manor

Random stuff from around the web

 

A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.

 - An Irish proverb

 

An unusual friendship!

 

A hilarious tutorial on how to braid your long hair into an epic Gimli beard!  Really.  I kid you not.

 

Jane Austen Old Spice Parody

 

 

Knitting with YouTube and Jane Austen

Joining in with Ginny for Yarn Along today.

As you can see, progress is being made on my cowl.  Hooray!  I am slowly making my way through Sanditon, a few pages at a time.  I have also downloaded a free Persuasion podcast by LibriVox from iTunes to listen to as I knit as I am nowhere near being able to knit and watch TV at the same time!

It has been such a long time since I've attempted to knit anything that I had forgotten how to cast on!  I am very much a newbie.  I have probably knit about 6 times in my whole life and it tends to be several years between sessions.  Not so great when you are trying to learn a new skill.  I needed help!  Enter YouTube.  I found a great site for tutorials.  It is so much easier for me to pick things up if I can see someone else doing them.  Here is the video I found useful:

 

After I got the hang of the casting on and knitting again I had another hair puller - I kept adding stitches somehow.  I pulled my work out a few times.  It seemed to be going so well and then all of a sudden I'd have one or two added stitches when I counted at the end of the row.  I think I was adding stitches due to not switching my yarn from back to front when I went to purl or from front to back when going back to knitting.  It's all good now!

 

 

Helmet races

A new kid-derived game of late is helmet racing.  You wear your bike helmet and race each other in circles around the house.  There don't appear to be any apparent winners or losers as the racers begin when they feel like it and all chant, "I'm the fastest.  I'm the fastest."  Great for a pre-bedtime tire out session.  Here is a tiny helmet race clip.  It would have been longer but I ran out of memory on the camera. ;)

A belated birthday post

A couple of weeks ago we celebrated Dwayne's birthday.  We didn't end up taking any still pictures on our camera but Dad did shoot a little video of us singing "Happy Birthday" to Dwayne with the kids helping to blow out the candles.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DWAYNE!  We love you!! :)