New Year, New Blog Location

All of a sudden, I've decided to relocate my blog to Wordpress. There are a few features not available with Blogger that may or may not be available there... we shall see... There isn't anything there yet, but the new address will be:

katinkaknits.wordpress.com

For the Love of Chocolate and iPhone at the same time...

This little late night post is inspired by a YouTube video I just saw. As many of you know, I am a fan of almost anything chocolate, and have been for as long as I can remember.

More recently, I have acquired an iPhone, as have many of my friends and family.

A week or so ago, I made a batch of chocolate-covered graham crackers which turned out better than I could have expected, so I've been thinking about and looking for other things I could cover with chocolate.

Now, if you all are thinking, "Oh, no, she's not going to cover her iPhone in melted chocolate," indeed, I have not lost my mind. What I came across was a video showing how to make a chocolate replica of an iPhone for those of you who do like chocolate, and are coveting an iPhone, or for those who just can't get enough of the one you already have.

So for your viewing pleasure...

Here is a link to the YouTube video!

Still Scratching My Head...

In my last post, I wrote about searching for the cross bars for the roof rack on my car. I never did find them, but in the meantime, my sister decided to rent a car, so I was able to transport my equipment and too much other stuff inside my car.

The Search

I have a longer more "Yarn House" relevant post, but at the moment I'm wracking my brain, as I try and try to remember where I've stashed the cross-bars for my car rack. You see, my sister and her family are coming in a couple of weeks to go skiing. I will meet them in Steamboat Springs and they will all come back to Fort Collins with me. They will be renting equipment, but I will be traveling with telemark and cross-country skis, which will not fit in the car with all of the people, so I must decide how to transport those skis.

I have a Yakima rack, that I could put on the car, but it is getting old, and would be cumbersome for me to get on the top of my car by myself. As a result, I thought I'd look into a simple, and inexpensive ski rack that would fit onto the factory installed rack on my car. As I was preparing to order such a rack today online, I thought I should look to see if the cross-bars for the factory rack are actually on the car, and lo and behold they are not.

No problem, I thought. Surely, they are in the basement or the garage and won't be too difficult to find, so I went outside and downstairs to search, with no immediate luck. Hmm? Ah, I thought. They must be in one of the 2 storage units I rent (I can't wait for the basement of my new house to be available to store the things that are in those storage units), so I set out on a trip to the storage units. After not finding the cross-bars in the first, I looked in the second and still no luck. So now, I'm in a quandry and seriously hoping that I didn't just throw them away!

There is really only one more place to look - inside the Rocket Box that is leaning against the wall of my garage. If I don't find them there, I guess I will be left with using the old Yakima Rack, and still wondering what happened to the cross-bars! Very odd!

No Blog Posts, but the "Yarn House" Progresses!

Despite not having posted in a little while, I have been paying a little bit of attention to documenting the "Yarn House" construction next door. (And it is great to be next door!) I've taken some photos, and have taken a lot of video from inside my house. The video requires some more processing, but I have created a slide show of the photos I've taken up thru the basement slab. The slide show includes photos taken of the house since I purchased it in 2008 and yesterday (Nov 5, 2009). It is about 6 minutes long, and does include some text, so here it is:

Yarn House Progress - November 5, 2009 from Lynn D on Vimeo.

I do intend to write a post soon describing the story of this property - at least under my ownership - since it has been pointed-out that the information I've shared here is a little spotty and disconnected! ;)