Dawn Brocco's Life & Design Blog

Knitting continues on the Peace Fleece cardigan - almost at the underarms now. How timely to be using a yarn called "Peace" Fleece. The irony has not escaped me.

Maybe some knitters have seen the nice blurb the editors have written for my "Winter Scarf Collection" in the new Family Circle Easy Knitting? Complete with cover photo!

This is the same booklet of designs that Unicorn Books is distributing to shops around the country via their auto-ship program. So, maybe a LYS near you will have some copies. If they don't, do ask them to stock it! Unicorn is also distributing my 2 previous design collections and my newish booklet, "Charting Your Way Through Heel Turns". Yes, shameless self-promotion, but it "is" my blog!

I've just printed up a few copies of my very newest booklet of designs, "Love Collection". These all use Plymouth Yarns Alpaca Boucle, an absolutely wonderful alpaca boucle yarn that won't break your budget. I'll have it up on my site any day now.

The cold has finally broken the freezing point, so hubby has taken in the pond pump and all the hoses. The house is not yet ready to be painted. It looks like Spring will be priming and painting time, if, IF it doesn't rain again ALL Spring, as with the past 2 years! Fingers and toes crossed. It's GOT to get done.

I just finished cooking up some carrots and zucchini for part of hubby's lunch, fed Pickles, and now will go bind the new bklet and work more on the Gazette, as well as get the new bklet onto my site and into the shopping cart. I've also worked on updating the Sale page, but haven't uploaded it yet, as I need to enter all the samples into the cart, as well. This takes time on dial-up.

Last night I ordered some olive oil soap, goat's milk soap and goat's milk moisturizer, to help keep our skin from drying out as winter approaches. I always shop at drugstore.com , as they deliver quickly enough, certainly more quickly than how often I get to go downtown to the health food store. Though I try to shop locally, when I can, and will send hubby, when I can't, I knew they didn't have everything I was needing this time.

The olive oil soap is wonderful. it doesn't foam up like most soaps, thanks to the high fat content, but it's that high fat content that doesn't dry out my skin. But, it's definitely seasonal use only. It's a bit too moisturizing for summer use. And I ordered an all natural, moisturizing dog shampoo for Pickles, as he's itchy and scratchy lately, as well. No reason for him to suffer, either.