Archive for August, 2011
August 30, 2011 · Filed under Life |
About a month ago the very wonderful little mailbox place near my house went out of business. The owner was a wonderful artist and a very funny guy with a good sense of humor. He prided himself on being the cheapest in town and I think that may have just been his downfall. He had ben in business for over 18 years. Petite Purls has had our mailbox there from the beginning and they never minded my crazy kids (ever try taking a 1 and a 3 year old into a store to mail something?).
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August 16, 2011 · Filed under Life, Photography |
I was so surprised to get so many comments on my last blog entry from my iheartfaces.com entry, it was fun to see a bunch of comments on the blog again. People don’t comment like they used to back in the hard-core blogger days! I also have a neat little facebook plugin that lets people post that way, but it doesn’t add to the post count which stinks, I mean who doesn’t get a bit dorked out when they see the post count number go higher then 1, or even into double digits? I know people are reading but I’ve always attracted a more quiet audience!
Continue reading “Tamara Lackey Photography Workshop” »
August 14, 2011 · Filed under Uncategorized |
For the iheartfaces.com photo challenge of the week! So hard to select which photo of my two daughter’s eyes I like best. I’ll give my hazel eyed doe a chance, it is so hard to pic a favorite! Her eyes are the strangest color, it’s nearly impossible some days to pick a color. They aren’t brown, but they aren’t green. So I call them hazel!
Continue reading “Mighty Eyes” »
Its a very exciting time now, and stressful too. I’ve finished all of the sketches and swatches for the book (aside from one I have to felt, ohhhhh felt! Now I’ve got you wondering huh?) Now I’m knitting all the final samples for the models to wear and I can’t tell you how exciting that is to be knee deep in that process! Once each pattern is written I’ll work on having them test knit, and the math tech edited. Then later, another tech editor will be going through everything. Very happy to know it they will be reviewed twice by two different tech editors.
Continue reading “Exciting Time” »
My name is Brandy Fortune, and I design knit-wear for kids. I love Crème Brulée, Sci-Fi, 70 degree weather and reading a good book in bed. I spend my time knitting, sewing, taking pictures, co-editing the web-zine 
