Knitting Away & Collecting

For some reason the knitting bug has gotten me again - I had gotten deals on needles last summer and even bought a large pair - and had found yarn at the thrift shop and 99 cent store - but I hadn't done anything with it!  I suppose it's because the weather here is chilly enough for scarves - and I had knit a nice "furpiece" on some chubby pencils a while ago which went very nicely with my yellow fleece winter jacket.

The success is a long muffler out of specialty fun yard from the 99 Cent Store - (usually $8 per ball!) It wasn't long enough, so I put on some long fringe - and voila! Very nice.

I then had a failed experiment with some fun fur yarn - it's hard to work with - and I don't even know if I can pull it all out and use it again or whether I am stuck with a large green dust rag! (Or maybe I could put it on a hat for St. Paddy's Day....) Hubby reminded me that it was "just a hobby."  Although he loves it when I do girly things - so feminine, he says.  I did marry a prince

Then I started knitting again last night (I have been working in front of TV after dinner) - on another sort of scarf project with fun fur.  This one is on even larger needles and working out better. 

Also went to www.joann.com today and downloaded some free shawl patterns, so I would have a better idea of what I was doing - Lots of cute things there - so maybe when the new yellow one is finished, I can go back to a green project....

The knuckle on my right index finger has been swollen - so I thought I would consult a colleague who used to do physical therapy and he thought it was just overuse. I do arch my index finger over my mouse - and I went and downloaded some more keyboard shortcuts to cut down on the use of it.

Then I favored my index finger all day by using a middle finger for the mouse - and in a day, it made a difference.  (I have also been putting on arnica cream and sometimes Tiger Balm and other linaments....)  My grandmother had arthritis in her hands - and my mother a bit, too - but my mother avoided the worst of it....So I watch it...

I also have been using a Tempurpedic foam sample on and off to support my wrist, which helps strain, too.  Just moving around the points of wear makes it easier on the joints. Just as rotating my shoes has always helped my feet.  If I am at all on my feet, it really is better to switch shoes daily.

Oh, a find!  Hubby and I were walking around the neighborhood. (we have found that it can be a nice peaceful walk at dusk) and I saw a pile of rugs at the curb.  It was getting dark, but I could see that they were fairly good ones, and I got hubby to go and get the car, so we could balance them on the trunk and get them the block or so back home.  After getting two - there was another one underneath, which looked even better, so I took that one, too.

The rug underneath had gotten wet - so we had to do something with it right away - and hubby took it to the little old rug guy down Western Ave. in the furniture district that my friend Eldon had turned us onto. Turns out the rug is a Bokhara - Pakistani, the man said - and new is worth $1500, as it is so large.  And I think this is an older one - which go for at least $1000 on EBay for that size.

That reassured hubby for the cost of cleaning it - the others can wait, but the Bokhara was beginning to run - apparently they do -  I researched it all on the internet...fascinating.

Now I have to figure out what to do with it!  It seems too big for the dining room, which is where I would like it - but I like my other rug in the living room!  But as I said at the time to hubby, I just couldn't pass it up - it was like money lying on the street!

Hubby is razzing me - but I say I don't want diamonds - just collectibles and insurance!  Seriously, good finds in antiques or quality collectibles just get more valuable sitting there - and you can always use them and then sell them off later.  (If I got near $1000 for this rug, then even with the cleaning there would be a profit. ) And who is going to STEAL a RUG?

I have made a couple of great coups in my collecting - including an etching I bought in the 70's for $40 which I sold off in the 90's for $1500! Not a bad investment.

Besides there is the thrill of collecting.  I could furnish a mansion - but have to keep it down to apartment scale.

Sadly the classical radio station here - KUSC has been all static.  I went to the website and it says it has been struck by lightning (?) causing transmission problems -  So I have cds on today. 

Did end up on KCRW the other day and heard an interesting interview with a Monica Lewinsky's ex pr-guy who has written a book about Having your 15 Minutes of Fame and how to handle it.

Seems that with the internet we are all public figures!  And as I know from my internet marketing, once it is out there, it never dies.  Think of that when you or your kids go to Facebook or the other social media!  As I am an actress, I do my own marketing and have done for some time, as I never could afford anyone better than myself...

Just succeeded in getting myself in Michael Levine's newsletter - as people sighted around town, as I ran into John Landis of Animal House at his wife Deborah's  presentation for her new Hollywood costume book at the Mikimoto Pearls of Wisdom Series.  We chatted about old movies becuase we all love them - and anything about them - Seems that Landis is uncomfortable with the kids lauding him like the Marx Brothers - and he is concerned that his wife's students don't know who Garbo is!   Don't they get Turner Classic Movies, I asked.
 

So it's weirdness as usual - but I am still here - How are you guys?

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