NASFic/Tuckercon
August 2-5, 2007
Collinsville, Illinois (St. Louis, Missouri area)
at the Collinsville, IL Gateway Convention Center
Title: "Have Story: Get Published"
Time: Saturday June 23, 2007 - 11 AM-1 PM
Location: Lake Geneva Library, 918 W. Main St. (Hwy 50), Lake
Geneva, WI 53147
Limited to teens only.
Call the Lake Geneva Library 262-249-5299 to sign up, or contact them at:
lakegene@lakegeneva.lib.wi.us
The contact person is Sara Soukup, Youth Services Coordinator
Sponsored by Friends of the Lake Geneva Library.
This category has been ignored for far too long. Yes, I have hobbies, perhaps too numerous to mention.
The newest is knitting. Some of you know that I used to work for a pottery. Before that time I made some of my own clothes, and built costumes for friends. As well as embroidered, darned socks, and the whole nine yards as far as needlework. The more intricate, the better. After 6 years at the pottery cleaning, packing, and selling stoneware, I developed problems in my right hand and arm, and developing problems in my left. Yup, the beginnings of the dreaded carpal tunnel, or something akin to it. So I had to give up stitching. And bicycling, and anything in exercise having to do with the upper right side of my body. It's a major conniption fit just getting a box of cat litter into the car, then getting it out and into the bathroom at home.
Horrors! I've been sewing since I was four years old. Giving it up was worse than having wisdom teeth pulled without anesthetic. I went into depression, made worse when my previous employer's insurance company insisted I had no injury. Then one day Margaret Weis showed me how to make shawls like the one she'd given me for my birthday.
Light dawned! I bought knitting needles, and worked on the technique until I could do it mostly left-handed. A-ha. I've been knitting ever since, and stocking the kitchen with boxes full of yarn. Then an elderly lady on my newspaper route found out, and she ordered a shawl and eight scarves over six months.
The upshot of all this is now I have a new business called Cobweb Creations. I have two highly unusual oversized metallic shawls in Shellsburg, Iowa, and Independence, Missouri. I've made normal shawls and scarves for people in Florida, Nice and Toulon, France, Indiana, Ohio, and Kenosha. Each piece is one-of-a-kind. The yarns are hand-washable, and every one is approved by my cats.
My latest creation is a lightweight rich chocolate brown yarn mated with a ribbon of pale yellow, antique gold, bronze, and iridescent patches. It looks really terrific. I'm also doing another in dark mauve with ice blue, medium blue, pink, and purple.
My other hobbies are cooking and inventing new recipes, tasting decent wines under $10 per bottle, playing with my cats, walking, getting back into exercising, listening to music, and watching movies.