If you happen to be in NY tomorrow night and love knitting and music and wonder how you can mix them you may want to check out Knitting Jam at the Chelsea Art Museum.

THURSDAY AUGUST 28, 2008, 6:30PM FREECHELSEA ART MUSEUM

556 West 22nd Street,
New York, NY 10011

Knitting Jam at the Chelsea Art Museum.

Laure Drogoul invites one and all to participate in an evening of musical knitting.

You are cordially invited to knit and become a part of a knitting orchestra. Knitters and non-knitters alike are invited to play/knit on a souped-up, amplified knitting instrument. The Apparatus for Orchestral Knitting amplifies the sound of the knitting, is mixed and played back live. All materials supplied.

Program presented by the

Chelsea Art Museum & Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center

This event is free and open to the public.
Directions: http://chelseaartmuseum.org/information/

If you want to come to participate in the knitting, please email Laure Drougoul with your RSVP at lahostess@hotmail.com.

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So you may remember that when I went to NZ I stumbled onto the fact that Labello is now Nivea, a little too late and I was kicking myself for not buying more lip balm while I had the chance. Today via Not Martha I learned that Nivea Lip Care products will be available soon (no date as to when) at a bunch of retailers, many of them will be convienient. Yeah! My lips are so happy! Thanks Megan!

This past weekend M&I were joined by my dad and grandfather upstate to get some work done, and boy did we ever! This is the bench that we put together with the outhouse in the background. You can’t see but my project this weekend was creating a mulch path that leads to the outhouse. Grandpa is going to paint us a sign for it. We also made a rain cover with the largest tarp I have ever seen AND got the floor put together for our ReadyMade shed! Phew! I can’t thank those guys enough. They come up, we laugh we set things on fire, we get things done. It is fantastic. I hope that one day soon they will be able to come up and laugh and set things on fire and relax a little. Maybe next time Grandpa, you can keep the fire inside the burn barrel? (If you look closely at the following picture you will notice a not so little fire to the right of the burn barrels.)

This weekend M&I will have company upstate! Grandpa and Dad are coming to help. They are good builders so we are going to work on some building projects. I like seeing those guys. It is always a lot of laughs. I wonder what Grandpa’s nickname will be this trip.

I have been using the Fliqlo screensaver for a while now and although I didn’t realize it, I needed a change. That is until I saw World Clock. Now I want to go and do something else just so that the screensaver will kick in.  via

Even when I did have cable I was too cheap to pay for premium channels such as Showtime. I felt it was $15 a month that I could use for something else. Recently while I was home scanning photos and clicking around what Netflix has to watch instantly I stumbled upon Weeds. While scanning and working on other assorted crafts I watched seasons 1 & 2 straight through. It is a half hour show so it was easier than it sounds, but that is still a lot of Weeds. The show is great, as many Showtime series shows tend to be. Interesting characters, good story line and fabulous jewelry. (The main character wears Me & Ro almost exclusively) And surprisingly little pot smoking for a show about a Suburban soccer mom who becomes a dope dealer to support her family after her husband dies. I have had to pace myself with season 3, but only because I have to wait for the DVDs.