Baby Rimes


November 5, 2007

Fetching

Category: not baby – Mommy Rimes – 12:07 pm

These little Fetching gloves are so lovely to make. I can knit up a pair in a few evening hours of TV viewing, or Wii watching. I’ve decided to make a few pairs as last minute Christmas gifts. You know there’s always that extra person that you didn’t get anything for and they show up at your house with a little something. I usually try to stash something for that event, and this year, it’s these little guys.

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They are a little washed out and should be a bit darker, but they are so nice with the little cables.

October 15, 2007

Eco Post

Category: not baby – Mommy Rimes – 12:16 pm

So I heard through the grapevine that today is officially Blog Action Day.
While I am not normally one to follow the crowd of crazy days that are sometimes made up, I thought this one might be kind of interesting.

The idea is to talk about the environment and bring it to the attention of your readers.  Now seeing as I have a total of 5 people reading this, I’m sure you already know about some of the things we do here in Rimestimes land.

Our first major undertaking has been the recycling.  St. Joe is lucky to have a curbside recycling program that we take full advantage of.  In fact, we had to call the city to have a second bin dropped off for us, since we have SO much to recycle.

Our second big thing is the grocery list.  We shop with reusable canvas bags (there’s a great site here that is offering a free pattern) that we have gathered on our many trips and educational outtings.  We also have cut back on our pre-packaged food items.  Not only are we saving packaging, we’re also eating healthier-which I’ve noticed in the last couple of days since none of my pants fit (in a good way!).  And we also try to eat local as much as we can in the summer with the farmer’s market.  That way we save on the gas and shipping of the bananas from Costa Rica and frozen fish sticks from who knows where.

One other thing I do, is to make recycled art projects.  Recently, it has been costume central at our house, and just about everything going into a costume has been rediscovered either in the basement, a closet, or the attic.  I promise to post pictures of our creations really soon.  I do the same at school where many of the art projects require students to reuse paper towel tubes, cardboard boxes, and other such things. Being an art teacher is really tough on your eco-friendliness and there’s many a day when I look at my classroom recycle bin and see how full it is of kids’ unwanted art projects.  But at least they are recycling them and not throwing them into the garbage.

Hopefully, Daddy Rimes and I will have a daughter who grows up to be eco-conscious and will take better care of her planet than those in the past.

October 5, 2007

NaBloPoMo

Category: Pictures, not baby – Mommy Rimes – 8:06 pm

What is that?!? What pray tell is a NaBloPoMo? Well, it’s this crazy thing about posting every day for one WHOLE month.
Do I really think I can accomplish that? Probably not. But I might just try. So if I’m feeling frisky come October 31st, I just might sign up for this crazy thing and see how well I do.

But I make no promises.

In order to practice for this incredible event, I give you a picture.

This little guy was growing in the desolate regions of our driveway against our front porch step. Yup, I know it’s in need of some painting. I blame the previous owners though.

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If you look closely, you can see the artistic talent of little miss R there on the step. She got some sidewalk chalk and loves to draw on anything that will hold still.

August 13, 2007

Sockapalooza!

Category: not baby – Mommy Rimes – 10:12 am

Hooray! I actually finished my Sock Pal’s socks on time (which was about 2 weeks ago).  But, like I said before, I’ve been slow to post lately.

Want to see some socks?

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This is a Trekking yarn.  It didn’t really have a name, but I named it “Neopolitan” because it reminded me of ice cream.  It was a hoot to work with.  I thought they were much too big, but then I put them on for the photo shoot and they seemed to be ok.  I sure hope they fit my sock pal!  Molly, I hope you are enjoying your socks.

These are only my second pair of completed socks, and I do think I’m getting much better at this whole sock thing.  Plus, I’m getting a little faster.  These only took me just over 2 months to finish.   I loved how they came out not matching with the stripes.  I don’t know why, but I just love when homemade socks are similar, but not quite match.

My sock pal sent me the most beautiful pair of socks.  They are simply delightful, thank you!  I ended up sick the week I got them, and I wore them all around while my fever was raging and my toes were freezing.  I haven’t gotten any action shots of my socks yet, but you can visit the esotericknitter.com to check out my socks. Thanks Jennie!  I really have to learn how to cable!

July 12, 2007

Pay it Forward

Category: not baby – Mommy Rimes – 9:11 am

One of the blogs I read is Art/Quilts. Yesterday she posted an interesting little bit about the first 3 commenters getting a little handmade something or other as long as they post the same deal on their blog for their readers.

So here it is. For the first 3 comments to this post, I will send you a little home made something. I’m going to leave the “something” part up to your imagination and surprise you with it. The only stipulation is that you post the same thing on your website.

Don’t you just love getting surprises in the mail? Leave me a comment and your email address and I’ll contact you to get your mailing information. Oh, and leave a link for your site so I can visit.

EDIT: Ok, so seriously, the only person who commented was Rhonda to get my address.  No one wants any cool home made goodies?  You could get a quilt, a batch of cookies, some yummy bread, a beanie chicken…ANYTHING.  I’m thinking I’m a little bummed out here you all.