My search for citrus Altoids ended abruptly yesterday when I found stacks and stacks of them at Trader Joes, thank you to everyone who suggested places! I also found these:

Ginger Altoids – they are spicy hot, a bit too much for me, but I like them.

yummy recipe for granola at jessamyn

recipe! Emira’s Bastardized Vegan Pasta e Fagioli

Newsflash from ChicKnits: If you’re in Chicago be sure to check out SnBTV. My brand spankin’ new DSL allowed me to finally view the Wild Chicago segment – link in the “Some other places” – on the Stitch ‘n’ Bitch homepage.

ReadyMade #4 is out (and my subscription arrived already, yay!)

What happened to all the new citrus sours Altoids? You know, these citrus and tangerine ones. [warning: flash] I recieved a free trial last time I was in the city and got hooked on the citrus ones, but I can’t find them anywhere. Did I miss a major product recall or something?

Knitty, that fabulous new online knitting magazine, is being super super nice to us, and added tips on where to find the harder to locate yarn for some of their patterns. Including where to find Bernat Illusions for the Topsecret sweater. And thanks to Kate for telling me where when I asked last week too!

Michelle turned an AOL tin into a beautiful box and told us all about it here.

link via spinning-jennie

Oooh, the newest article at Get Crafty is nifty – how to make T-Shirt Underwear.

Now, for the first time, I am coming to you Live from DSL! We (well, my in-house tech person) installed it last night, it took about five minutes. It is so nice. I can actually load big flash things, see trailers, listen to stuff, even load my own project pages!

Congratulations to Loobylu and her husband on the birth of their little baby girl (it’s a girl!) Amelia Joan!

Ripped from the threads at Glitter (not really, I’m just saying that), Martha Stewart had on a segment about how to make a cigar box purse. See Glitter posts: one, two, three, four, and five. Do a search for even more.

It’s been a while since the last one of these – a few of these are found again.

i troll martha stewart so you don’t have to

• mod paper lanterns using mod podge
• paper mache jack o lanterns
• spun sugar carmel apples
• chocolate desert bowls
• cut off whisk for pulling spun sugar
• sugar cage with jaques this is fabulous
• Croquembouche
• apron
• felt tote
• hair towel
• yarn flower
• peeling chestnuts

I’m not a big fan of jams and jelly for morning toast, but I bought some black cherry preserves the other day and it is fabulous.

All the best to Loobylu for her impending motherhood!