March Mission Accomplished

My New Year's Resolution for March was to create a Christmas Card mailing list. It's the kind of mindless fun sort of job I enjoy - but it's really so mindless it was hard to make myself sit down and actually create it. Then suddenly I realized it was almost April and I hadn't begun. And so. Sunday morning I sat down with the huge stack of old cards, envelopes, and the crusty Rolodex and began to type.

 VOILA! 

I haven't decided what I want to do for April - though we have HVAC guys coming early next month to put in a ductless heat pump. Four Mitsubishi Hyper-Heat Ductless Units, in fact. Here's what they look like.

 

So it might behoove me to clean out the corner in the spare room that is heaped with yarn bins, fiber tubs, laundry baskets full of family photos, a spinning wheel, a chair and several bags of unfinished knitting projects. That might be my April Resolution - or better yet - putting it all back in useful and accessible order might be the real resolution.  Sigh. Sounds like werk to me. 

A more fun resolution might be 

So now it's discourse between head and heart - or conscious and subconscious - or Left Brain and Right Brain. Either way - I will probably do at least some of both. And with that TheQueen will bid March adieu with this fascinating photo of the sun's reflection in a pool of water.  Juno is intrigued. Or is it Callie?

Yes. She's Alive. She's Even Knitting.

There is even a post from last Saturday that I just haven't gotten around to finishing. Because I don't have any photos of my knitting.

Wait. (10 minutes later)

Proof!!

The multi-hued yarn is a Plymouth yarn called Gina that's similar to Noro with its long color way. It's a cleaner yarn than Noro (used to be? Never really look at that stuff - have a bad reaction to it.) and I originally bought this yarn to knit a blue sock (the solid is another Plymouth in superwash merino) with a fanciful cuff - never thinking about that long colorway and how many inches of sock cuff I'd have to knit before the color changed at all.

Sudden change of plans turned this into a hat brim for a solid colored crown. I may also do some fun stuff with the crown - something pop-corny or cable-y - though even as I type this I shudder because I like classic with a bit of whimsical trim - not all over funky. But this blue hat will end up as a gift anyway - so there is time to ponder before I switch yarns.

And so you see - Proof of Knitting. 

But the real project I've been working on is a series of watercolor Christmas postcards. I'm doing these with the same friend with whom I did the 31 days of sketching in August. We are having way too much fun with these - Here is a Christmas Fairy, doing her magic.

So. Just in case you were wondering ... Is she alive? Does she Knit? - the answer to both is "YES" I guess the real question should be ... "Does she still blog?"