Happy Birthday to Me!

My Birthday was 2 weeks ago. Since we got my gifts by mail, and we don’t like shipping charges, they took their time getting here. I love it when my birthday lasts more than one day. But what did I get?!

I am very happy to first find this book, and now to own it. I have just done the quick clip through, but I do believe it is exactly what I wanted. He has done the hard work of figuring out many of the “how in the heck do you do that” conundrums. Now all I have to do is knit! He also validated my choice of how to manage the edges on my scarf, but gave some interesting options to try later.

The second item is not knitting related. Shocking I know. It is blog related though. I got “Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer’s Craft” from The Great Courses. I like to write. I like playing with the English language. I also like to get my meaning across as clearly as possible. I do not think I always succeed. The play and the clear meaning sometimes clash in a big way. These DVD’s should help. Improve my sentence structure, they shall. *nods*