I'm Stephanie. I like to knit, write letters and poems, read (novels and blogs!), and stress out to the max. ;) At Sunbeam Soapbox I write about the knitting, letters, and whichever thoughts I want to share with the world. I also like new friends! Feel free to drop me an e-mail anytime using the contact form.
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My mom, who is definitely Not A Knitter, just went on and on about why I “need” to buy myself some yarn while I’m gone. While I was working to convince myself otherwise. It made me giggle, and I decided to share. (I must really enjoy this sharing thing.)
Apparently I left most of my yarn [...]
Random.org’s random number generator announces LadyO as the blog-warming contest winner. Congrats! I’ve sent you an e-mail, LadyO.
Thanks everyone for playing along! Now I’ve got some packing to do. Hopefully I’ll also get some knitting done over the week so I have something to share when I get back. Mom convinced me to bring my [...]
This is just a quick post to remind everyone that today’s the last day for the blog-warming contest! Tomorrow I’ll pick a random winner, then go on hiatus for a week. Oops. My one and only vacation of the summer is from Friday til next Thursday, and I can’t wait. Who knows? I might even [...]
All of a sudden I have a new sock.
I iz a sock…puppet.
Arrrrrgh. I cast this sock on the Friday before World Wide Knit In Public Day, the day I was going to be at a pirate festival and have lots of time for knitting on the trip to the festival. It was going to be [...]
Having a blog is good motivation for finishing things. The last couple of rows of the last sock, plus weaving in ends, totally got pushed to the wayside as I started on some basic stockinette socks as well as worked on Henry. Today, though, in an effort to combat 1/2 hour of boredom, I decided [...]
Or does it runneth over? Remember that sourdough starter I mentioned? Did I mention that I really didn’t know what I was doing? Obviously I need a bigger jar; well, it got one today as I fed the yeast and cleaned up the mess they made. I get this feeling that my yeast trap errr [...]
Grumble, grumble. That weekend of nice 70s weather was merely a reprieve. I had hoped it would be longer than a few days. Today we’re back up to 80s weather, probably up to 87˚F outside. 84 inside the house. Goody. But since it’s cooled off outside at least, I’m sitting in the backyard with my [...]
I planned on doing a lot of things today. I thought I’d spend lots of time on this blog, prepping posts and editing the sidebar and other things. Because once I start thinking about it while I’m getting ready for bed, thoughts swirl and I say, “Well, I’ll save all this for later.” And later [...]
I’ve finally (re-)started the blog.
This has taken me forever in the interest of opening it up “perfect”. But I realized the other night: Things don’t have to be perfect to get done. It’s a lesson I have to remind myself of over and over and over. And because of the way I’ve been making up [...]