What is more fun that cats in hats?
Cats in hoodies, of course.
photo credit: SodaHead
Archive for April, 2013
What am I sappy cat blogging?
April 12, 2013Where am I traveling?
April 11, 2013
To Mars – at roughly and virtually 3 times the speed of light.
What am I knitting?
April 10, 2013
Thanks for HMS Defiant for this reference about Romano-Egyptian socks. He watches me knitting and sent this delightful story along.
I am a sock knitter and one of the nice things about knitting your own is that you can tailor them to the recipient – color, length in all dimensions, weight.
However, I have never had to adjust my knitting to accommodate the apparently stork-footed (see there are storks again) individual for whom these socks were made.
Another note is that the story talks about single-needle knitting. I always thought that was crochet – ?
What is tattoo Tuesday about this week?
April 9, 2013This week is a photo essay on stork tattoos. I decided to stay away from the baby-storky tattoos and go for those that are more realistic ones. Some of these may actually be cranes – but, close enough.
And for something different, yet related:
More on storks from the San Diego Zoo.
What is tattoo Tuesday about?
April 2, 2013In honor of Charlemagne’s birthday, here is a series of fleur de lis tattoos.
The fleur de lis is a stylized lily. It figures prominently in heraldry, particularly in European royal coats of arms, such as on this flag of the Kingdom of France.
Whose birthday am I celebrating?
April 2, 2013
Charlemagne, born this day in 742. He became King of the Franks, King of the Germans and the first Holy Roman Emperor.
Called the “Father of Europe” Charlemagne’s empire united most of Western Europe for the first time since the Roman Empire. His rule spurred the Carolingian Renaissance, a revival of art, religion, and culture through the medium of the Catholic Church. Through his foreign conquests and internal reforms, Charlemagne encouraged the formation of a common European identity. Both the French and German monarchies considered their kingdoms to be descendants of Charlemagne’s empire.
The Carolingian Renaissance his reign spurred was short-lived, yet influential in that during that time:
Northern Europe embraced classical Mediterranean Roman art forms for the first time, setting the stage for the rise of Romanesque art and eventually Gothic art in the West. Illuminated manuscripts, metalwork, small-scale sculpture, mosaics, and frescos survive from the period.
Source: Wikipedia
Read his biography here on the BBC site.
Gunsmoke and Knitting 