tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317802644442713698Wed, 09 Oct 2024 23:14:43 +0000jacabobskitlaneboxeskawaiineedle feltedpackagingwoolhttp://kitlane.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Kitlane)Blogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317802644442713698.post-7888333661043391298Wed, 09 Mar 2016 20:49:00 +00002016-03-09T14:49:59.137-06:00An armload of laundry full of torn patches and holes; threadbare and stained from the long battle. The kind of encumbrance one carries alone because of the rank stink of ditch water and mourning. Detritus rags that cause people to not peer too closely for the real fear of what they would surely see clinging to its threads and hems. But, for the clothes on my back that pile of holes I was carryinghttp://kitlane.blogspot.com/2016/03/tidy-rags-draft.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kitlane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317802644442713698.post-312898779101104276Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:59:00 +00002016-03-09T11:37:32.391-06:00Unconditional love on the face of it seems like a lovely ideal, something we should strive for. The ideal of unconditional love strikes some people as the purest, most ideal way to define the essence of love. Sounds so appealing. Unconditional love is an undiluted love they say. But this seems to me to be a horrible conundrum. To love unconditionally is to love without reason. When you are http://kitlane.blogspot.com/2012/04/love.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kitlane)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317802644442713698.post-7749134419149818906Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:25:00 +00002016-03-09T11:37:32.430-06:00Off to crank on the furnace and take a long hot shower after my daily wander to inspect my ward.The lumpy Hummocks of the tundra are turning deep into themselves and grumble sweet groans while they slowly settle into the familiar snowy blankets of dreamseason. Geese, assembling in great gaggles, preparing to flee with their children, south by air in their rubbery shoes. It's bone cold but I shallhttp://kitlane.blogspot.com/2011/11/winter-is-coming.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kitlane)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317802644442713698.post-8103544982056423525Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:37:00 +00002016-03-09T11:37:32.433-06:00These last many months I've had my head buried deep in my work, hardly ever coming up for air. I live a rather hermitty existence anyway but lately for weeks on end the only persons I see with any regularity are the grocer and the post master. Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining one little bit. I love my work and my quiet little life out here in the wastelands. But yesterday was my birthday, http://kitlane.blogspot.com/2011/02/birthday-on-plains.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kitlane)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317802644442713698.post-4592183817596997988Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:49:00 +00002016-03-09T11:37:32.403-06:00The time will comewhen, with elationyou will greet yourself arrivingat your own door, in your own mirrorand each will smile at the other's welcome,and say, sit here. Eat.You will love again the stranger who was your self.Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heartto itself, to the stranger who has loved youall your life, whom you ignoredfor another, who knows you by heart.Take down the love http://kitlane.blogspot.com/2011/01/love-after-love.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kitlane)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317802644442713698.post-3339652246671150172Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:01:00 +00002016-03-09T11:37:32.394-06:00boxesjacabobskitlanepackagingWhen I first started making the wee woolly Jacabobs, I was always at a loss for boxes to ship them in. I often went hunting for boxes around town and asking for them among my mothers old friends. After a while I had the distinct feeling I was bothering some friends and business people with always inquiring for boxes so I reverted to searching for them in back ally ways and dumpsters.I'm quite a http://kitlane.blogspot.com/2011/01/on-branding-your-product-and-reputation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kitlane)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317802644442713698.post-628267627389595873Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:11:00 +00002016-03-09T11:37:32.421-06:00I'd only been in Bucerias a few days and was already tired of eating in restaurants every single meal. As delighted as I was at the complete surprises I received by pointing to my best guess on the menu, my mouth was finally set on a breakfast I could recognise, a breakfast I could count on. I had moved to this quaint little town on the Mexican Riviera without speaking a word of Spanish. I had myhttp://kitlane.blogspot.com/2010/08/search-for-eggs-and-meaning.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kitlane)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317802644442713698.post-6889552829134992333Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:00:00 +00002016-03-09T11:37:32.424-06:00Days, weeks, years, of striving to shape and craft and mold that writing voice which is becoming mine, have led me to the shrewd disclosure of this self-truth: that my ever-increasingly perfectionistic, obsessive behaviour is manifested in my writing through the endless polishing of a single sentence to consummation, searching for that purity of prose - that elusive essence of the exact http://kitlane.blogspot.com/2009/12/verbose-linguistic-jewellry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kitlane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317802644442713698.post-5594644108468368058Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:02:00 +00002016-03-09T11:37:32.413-06:00Time of death. October 17th at 9:35am. She crawled up with her ancient knees and paper-light shaky body into her little purple twirly wheel and slipped her mortal coil. My daughter is coming home from school today to spend the weekend. I was unfairly hoping little Mouse could hold on just one more day. Life is for the living but Mouse has spent the last several days somewhere between here and http://kitlane.blogspot.com/2009/10/end-of-her-little-days.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kitlane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317802644442713698.post-6115586908967538180Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:25:00 +00002016-03-09T11:37:32.418-06:00Just raising my head above water for a moment to say hello. The pile of preparatory work is nearly done to send wee kidlette off to school. Shopping is complete and packing has begun. My wee hovel of a home has been invaded with organisational piles in every corner which on the outside seems quite unorganised. But kidlette assures me there is a thought to her process of packing.On top of all of http://kitlane.blogspot.com/2009/08/two-murders-one-mouse-and-escapee.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kitlane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317802644442713698.post-1247250013598783995Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:55:00 +00002016-03-09T11:38:11.584-06:00jacabobskawaiikitlaneneedle feltedwoolSome time ago I did an interview for Steve Rack for his inspiring blogginess along with a give-away of one of my Jacabobs as a promotion for both of us. Here's his link although it might move as he's redoing his site at the moment. http://ilikecharacters.com/2009/07/01/interview-kit-lane/I was quite pleased to be asked but am a bit shy about writing. I resolved this morning while I was walking http://kitlane.blogspot.com/2009/08/for-posterity-and-so-i-dont-forget-or.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kitlane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317802644442713698.post-4390767759587684270Wed, 20 May 2009 22:58:00 +00002016-03-09T11:37:32.400-06:00Spring has sprung on the tundra, originally uploaded by Kit Lane.I said I wouldn't blog about the weather....but I couldn't help ithttp://kitlane.blogspot.com/2009/05/spring-has-sprung-on-tundra.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kitlane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317802644442713698.post-7371346400314193701Tue, 19 May 2009 19:57:00 +00002016-03-09T11:37:32.427-06:00aarrgghh!, originally uploaded by Kit Lane.Trying to get my head around all the different blogging formats, code, customisation etc...It's making me crazy.http://kitlane.blogspot.com/2009/05/aarrgghh.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kitlane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317802644442713698.post-2546231159887602206Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:07:00 +00002016-03-09T11:37:32.388-06:00After the blizzard 12-15-08, originally uploaded by Kit Lane.I'm dependable. I update my blog on a regular basis. Apparently that's about once a year. :o)So here I am again and the landscape looks much the same as it did last year. The big story in Minnesota really IS the weather. I'm going to try refrain from that for the most part although old habits die hard.My recent goal, since I'm spread http://kitlane.blogspot.com/2009/03/annual-update-o.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kitlane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317802644442713698.post-5178174518056006410Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:56:00 +00002016-03-09T11:37:32.406-06:00This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.http://kitlane.blogspot.com/2009/03/flickr.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kitlane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317802644442713698.post-9409987378403163Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:41:00 +00002016-03-09T11:37:32.436-06:00I fully intended to do more felting today but I spent my energy shoveling. We got from 12 to 15 inches during the night. It's the middle of April darn-it! Kidlette is going to the movies tonight with a friend so maybe then I can felt. Sometimes one just gets the urge to poke.http://kitlane.blogspot.com/2008/04/snowargh.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kitlane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317802644442713698.post-5545028569185973986Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:49:00 +00002016-03-09T11:37:32.410-06:00As you can well see by the date of my last post, I am still not blogging but I'm going to give it another try. (I can see your rolling your eyes)I do however have a wee web space now that I'm very excited about called Etsy. It's a marvelous community of hand crafters, mostly women. Etsy is a venue to sell ones wares made by ones own sweat and toil with like minded people. Since my last posting http://kitlane.blogspot.com/2008/04/etsy-anniversary-for-me-yay.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kitlane)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317802644442713698.post-5800544632731844581Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:33:00 +00002016-03-09T11:37:32.415-06:00