animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

yarn crafter

We (at Innovative Tomato) released our second app recently, Yarn Crafter! Our office is full of knitters and crocheters, so everyone was pretty excited about it. We have so many features planned for the app–it’s going to be a really useful tool for yarn crafting hobbyists! If nothing else, I’m …

sold!

We sold our rental house as of Monday. Finally. I had a love/hate relationship with that place. It was nice to have the income (though once you figure in taxes, upkeep, insurance, etc., it didn’t amount to that much), but I always hated dealing with potential renters. And, it seemed …

ahh, taxes

We finally signed our tax forms yesterday, despite having had an appointment to get our taxes done over a month ago. There was a holdup with one of the businesses due to some tax credits it received. The bad news is that we owe some money this year. After years …

the holiday

I have a nice stretch off over Thanksgiving (Wednesday-Sunday), so I’ve been getting my store ramped up for the the Christmas shopping season–making some new items, remaking some old ones. This was my year to host Thanksgiving, so I scheduled Wednesday off, but my mom wanted to swap Christmas Eve …