http://duckbell.com affordable cool Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:56:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just in time for Easter... I love this pattern (so fast!  so simple!) and I finally found a use for this ridiculous hairy pink acrylic yarn.  Finn named her new bunny Hoppity Hop. http://duckbell.com/?p=76 For his birthday, David requested a watch.  Not just any watch, but a watch that you can't get here in the US.  That's why we have ebay!  I clicked "buy it now" and paid with paypal and paypal sent the money to Hong Kong.  A few minutes later, I received ... http://duckbell.com/?p=70 Fionnuala made this on David's I-Phone.  So I've decided that I can stop buying all of those 20x200s and just let Fionnuala make our art.  Actually, I'll bet if I submitted this for a 20x200, she'd probably be selected. http://duckbell.com/?p=67 We store our magazines in the bathroom (even if we don't read them there; ok, sometimes we do).  I designed this cabinet to block the view of the toilet and provide a little privacy, but also to store magazines on the toilet side. We labeled the sections with David's P-Touch.  The ... http://duckbell.com/?p=56 I haven't posted in a while, and here is why: rather than accumulating more stuff (even inexpensive, beautiful stuff), I've been trying to pare down, have less stuff, and organize what I already have. Most of the stuff I've obtained recently has been stuff that helps organize other stuff. So, since that's ... http://duckbell.com/?p=54 We used to have a study.  The study had a huge desk along one wall, 16 feet long.  The rest of the room was basically a long hallway to access the master bedroom.  After much demolition, a little paint, a little more paint because the new paint made the other ... http://duckbell.com/?p=52 Benk and Ginny and I took a trip to Albuquerque, and all agreed that we needed to visit Ta Lin Market.  This is where you can stock up on Irish tea (and even Lucozade), achiote paste from Central America, pad thai noodles, Japanese ponzu sauce...  While we were there, Benk ... http://duckbell.com/?p=49 I am not the biggest 20x200 junkie, but I definitely have a habit.  Because here's the thing: we can afford things like toilet paper, nice jam for crostata, even splurge on some yarn (because it gets turned into something useful like a scarf or a sweater).  But there is definitely ... http://duckbell.com/?p=40 I like to support my local knitting store, but knitting can be an expensive habit.  There are some beautiful yarns out there (although my preference is to see the pattern rather than the yarn) and I can't afford any of them.  I just bought 5 skeins of Brown Sheep's Cotton ... http://duckbell.com/?p=38 Today it finally got cold (autumn! I love autumn!) so I made a list of my future knitting projects, but since I only have the yarn for two of these projects, those are the only ones I’ll describe here. In case I don’t actually get to the other projects, and ... http://duckbell.com/?p=34