October 18, 2011 · Filed under Uncategorized |
When Flax & Twin came out with this adorable owl tutorial, I was ALL over it. I KNOW I KNOW the owl thing has been going on for like 5 years now, but man I can’t get enough. LG has an owl obsession and we collect the cutest ones we come across. When I saw the tutorial I thought “I can be lazy and just use decorative card stock, and hang them as a banner across her curtains in her room!”. I have a lot of owls to make to get there, probably 12. I made two initialy to test the theory.
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October 17, 2011 · Filed under Uncategorized |
My blogging will be sparse until the book is done. I’ve been busy collecting accessories and props…
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September 18, 2011 · Filed under Uncategorized |
Read about the story here: http://www.denverpost.com/music/ci_18904986
“The conclusions are grim. Unless the symphony works fast to slash salaries, find new sources of cash and ultimately change the way it does business, its very existence is in question… We’re talking dead: a major city without a symphony orchestra.”
I’m not usually one to post these sort of things, I’m sometimes wary of giving money because I don’t know where it’s going to go and if it ever actually gets there, but in this situation I know exactly where the money will go and that it goes directly to the source. I think about those 79 musicians (and the paltry pay they are receiving due to pay cuts, and this has been going on for a while now) and I feel incredibly sad to think of those 79 musicians out of a job, Colorado without a symphony, and the world with less music. Music, I think is probably as important to most people as it is to me. Its an emotional outlet, a way of expressing ourselves, a way of feeling different things. I listen to the Classical XM stations in the car all the time with the girls, and it’s always the best way to calm them down when they are irritated. BG and I call it “Ballet Music” and she requests it most every day. I can’t imagine the world without music.
I know the power of knitters, I know if we come together we can do amazing things. I want to ask that if you have $10 you are able to part with, to donate it to the Colorado Symphony to help those 79 musicians. 1,000 knitters times 10 is 10,000 and 1,000 knitters times 50 is 50,000 (more then one musicians salary). Any amount I believe will help, if you have more to give that is wonderful as well!
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I will add this is very personal for me because my good friend and Petite Purls co-editor Allegra Wermuth is a violinist in the Colorado Symphony, she did not ask me to post this, I simply feel compelled to do something and when I saw they had a donations page I wanted to donate and thought maybe someone else would want to donate too. If we can in any way shape or form help the Colorado Symphony, and help even one of those musicians keep their job, we will have done something amazing.
I just donated $50 and added this line to my donation request:
“I would like this money to go towards the salary of a Colorado Symphony musician.”
If you donate, please comment below (no need to mention the amount). I believe when we all come together to do something, other people are compelled to act as well, for every action there is an equal or greater re-action.
*Please note I wrote this while a 2 year old and a 4 year old squealed their heads of so kindly excuse my writing. What must be done, must be done!
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!
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June 28, 2011 · Filed under Uncategorized |
On Fathers day we ran down to the lake for a nice little swim. The husbeast had lots of fun with the girls in the water and we found a good spot where LG could stand in the water and be relatively safe (she fell in the pool a few weeks back when he took them to the pool). It’s been 80-90 degrees here in Georgia. The lake is very close to our house, within 1 mile, half a mile in some spots. The problem with this gigantic lake is many people don’t like to go in it due to fears of ecoli etc. I know for a fact there is ecoli in that lake, and I know some really nasty stuff runs off in it. It’s too big to control well. Word has always been the lake is safest when its at full pool and right about now it’s only a few feet shy. We had a big drought two years ago and I didn’t stop a foot in it. Its called Lake Lanier and many people do swim in it all the time, it’s just one of those things. We live in a worried, worried world! It’s strange to live so close to such an amazing lake and feel like it’s not always safe to go in.
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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 
