Frozen river at sunrise

Frozen river at sunrise, originally uploaded by Ann Foley.

When the temperature of the water in the Wisconsin is higher than the temperature of the air, fog rises from the river first thing in the morning.

What an unexpected treat. I’ll almost be sad to see the end of winter.

Frozen island on the Wisconsin, originally uploaded by Ann Foley.

Mini-Monkeys!

I finished this pair of mini-monkeys (links to directions and inspirations here and here) last week and finally got around to photographing my feet and posting the photo.

It’s my first try at a lace sock, but I wasn’t really worried about the difficulty. 10% of the internet is knitting help, videos, tutorials etc. Google “ssk” or “turn heel” and you find links to hundreds of sites. So really, it’s hard to use teh interwebs and not end up knitting socks.

The rest of the internet: 40% Gawker media and 50% porn. Facebook is in there somewhere, maybe about 2%, like a big virtual middle school with all the kids competing be the first one to mention a new cool band.

Back to knitting. The hard part of this pattern is having to count. Every. Single. Stitch. You couldn’t knit this pattern while watching The Wire. But you could easily knit mini-monkeys and watch Lost. Lost seems complicated but really, there’s nothing there to understand. Tune in and knit away.

The part I found difficult was photographing my feet. I enlisted Skippy to help me set up the shot, but she was not amused. I am not your meat puppet, she says.

Crafty Fun Time

Here’s what to do with your unemployment time: make a paper model of the Bates house:

Or, make a gingerbread haunted house:

Ray Keim, an art director for Universal Studios Orlando, designed and built these nifty structures. His web site, Haunted Dimensions, offers downloadable instructions for these and other projects.

Thanks, Boing Boing, for being the source of all things interesting.