I never know how to start these “about me” pages. Do I write them in a third-person, objective, journalistic style, or do I blurt out the short version of my biography? Would numbered or bulleted lists suffice? Should I crib from one of those Facebook memes that was all the rage six months ago, and tell you some facts you might not know about me?
Anyhow, I’m Nanette. I’m now safely ensconced in my mid-30s, and I live in central Illinois. I have a husband (Tim) and three cats (Pepper, Lily, and Grace). I’m a librarian in a public library, and I also teach cataloging as an adjunct for an LIS program. I like reading (yeah, surprise) and I’m willing to try just about anything crafty, although my first-and-main crafty love is knitting. I also spin, weave, and make jewelry with seed beads, have experimented with quilting, cross-stitch, and needlepoint, and fully intend to take sewing lessons in the near future. My pottery experiment was completely abortive (I didn’t even bother going to the second week of the two-week “throw on the potter’s wheel” class I signed up for) and I haven’t done anything with the crapload of mosaic supplies I bought last year.
Also, I play the flute, which I have been doing for most of my life at this point (minus about 12 years where I didn’t pick it up but once or twice a year). I take lessons at a local music school and play recitals on a fairly regular basis. I am most into baroque music these days and am making my way through Handel’s sonatas.
And this is the latest in a string of blogs that begins with the late, great Amplified to Rock, followed by Trompe le Monde, then Skills Like This, then What She Read…so I have been doing this, off and on and with varied success, for a long time. I’m hoping that a focus (knitting, crafting, and books) will motivate me to actually write with reasonable frequency. I bought this domain with the intention of creating a knitting podcast, and I just might do that someday, too.
Other places to find me include Twitter (surferrosa) and Ravelry (nanette).