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Posted on February 19, 2009 - by admin

Training Update // Dogs on Thursday

Today I give you Ebenezer’s training progress. She now weighs 3 pounds and is 4 months old.  This is not really a good example of her best work, but it is cute, none the less.  Enjoy!

Posted on February 17, 2009 - by admin

My Amazon Wishlist (in case you were wondering…)

I found this neat bookshelf widget on another blog and thought that I would try it out. It won’t fit in my sidebar on this theme, so I figured I would just do a post and see what happened. This is my Amazon Wishlist, knitting books only (I have several other wishlists…). Anyway, I think the widget is kind of nifty, what say you?

Posted on February 10, 2009 - by admin

Kreative Blogger Award

Now it is my turn to pass it on.  Here are my seven picks for the Kreativ Blogger Award:

• A Few Stitches Short -  Susan can whip patterns out faster than anyone I have ever seen and they are all stunning!
• Seasons of Lace – a site that brings all the hard work of so many lace knitters together in one place.
• Knitting Elephant – love the quality of the knitting
• Lankakomero – she keeps me busy with her beautiful lace (and other) patterns for free
• Miss Alice Faye – eye candy!
• Nuperelle – awesome tatting information
• Scott Fillmer’s Blog – He is the best photographer I know and deserves the Kreativ Blogger Award of the year!

If you are on this list, feel free to

1. Copy the award to your site
2. Link back to this post or my blog
3. Nominate 7 other bloggers who you think deserve the Kreativ Blogger Award and post their blog links

Fair Winds

Posted on February 3, 2009 - by admin

Using MacJournal To Organize Your (Knitting) Life

If you have a PC, you may want to read this post anyway, as there may be a similar program out there for you that does this same type of organization, but, this post is actually for those of you who own and operate a Mac.

If you have been reading this blog over the last month or so you would know that I just recently became the proud owner of a MacBook.  When I started exploring all the nifty things my MacBook could do, I came across the MacJournal. Can I just say Wow?!? The way this program has organized my knitting patterns (and other parts of my life) is just amazing!

Let’s go back to the beginning. When I had a PC, I would keep all my downloaded patterns (free or not) in file folders. These were organized by category like shawls, socks, hats, etc. While I found this organization structure to be helpful, it led to having various file formats in the same folder. For example, in the Shawls folder I would have some PDFs, some Word Documents, and even some HTML patterns. As a result, when I wanted to “browse” my pattern collection for something new to cast on, I would have to open various different programs to see the different patterns in the file folder.

Fast forward to today.  MacJournal is a program that you can get for Mac computers.  It seems that it was intended to be a “journal” program, which it is, but it is so much more!  I am able to drag PDF files into the journal entries and see them without opening them.  I can also drag and drop the PDF files in and out of the program, print them, add notes to the entries, etc.

All my patterns are no longer in notebooks on the shelves, but scanned and saved in one SEARCHABLE place, the MacJournal.  Even my online purchased patterns are included.  I can open a web page in my browser that has a pattern on it and “print” the page directly to MacJournal.  The titles of the “journal” entries become the titles of the patterns and I have the patterns organized by craft, with sub-catagories within (see screen shot below).

For those of you who own a Mac and have not checked out this application, I cannot recommend it enough for this purpose.  Oh, it also organizes your receipts, recipes, notes, and if all that isn’t enough, it is also a journal notebook that can be password protected.

Fair Winds

Posted on February 2, 2009 - by admin

Seriously?

This book has been on my wish list for quite some time now, but really, $175?  Seriously???  Anyone have one they want to part with?