the ice-cream bribery worked like a charm... good to the last drop! ****** today has been a very productive day... i dropped adella off at co-op this morning and went home to work on my cursed bird skirt. after some thought and a bit of winging-it (excuse the bad pun) with the machine embroidery, i ended up with something over halfway decent i think. i'm not completely in love with it, but satisfied. it looks huge in the picture, but it actually fits quite nicely. i used the same pattern from when i made my flowery favorite skirt. strangely enough, i forgot to take pictures of my secret knitting project! but, here is a sneak peek at the yarn i used (not all together - they were 3 seperate projects): also, last weekend i scored a huge old chalkboard from a junk shop close to my work. i came out of a sunday school classroom, and is perfectly old-school - metal frame and all. stig repainted it a few days ago and today we hung it in the hallway. it looks great! adella and stig got to work right away: **** tonight i'm babysitting rachel so beth and todd can go to the movies. we're doing an X-Men movie night out swap. next week beth is coming over to put adella to sleep so stig and i can go out to the movies! it's been ages since we got to go out! i think it was around Christmas. seriously. so, gotta run!