It’s a taxonomical question, of sorts: does your blog just include everything, or do you specialize? Are you a lumper, or a splitter? I’ve been blogging for years, and I’ve tried both approaches. I started with a blog that just had everything – book reviews, movie reviews, handwork, food, life, photography – and then I decided to split them off into different single-focus blogs. I had a cloud blog, a dream blog, a book blog, a photography blog, a food blog, a NY Stories blog, and a personal blog. That got to be a LOT of work, man. And not only that, it left me feeling as fragmented as it sounds. Plus, most visitors just read one of the blogs, and I’d want to share something special but it was on one of the other blogs. So back I went to a single blog. [note: this is all a very silly problem, really.]

This blog originated as a knitting blog, exclusively. But as a very busy person, with limited knitting time, weeks might pass without something knitting-related to say, so I started filling in with other things. Now, even though it has a knitting-themed title, and I do try to focus on handwork whenever possible, it has a bit of everything…..and I like it that way. I hope you do too.

The only exception to “everything” is that I decided to reanimate my old food blog, Luscious. I wrote a post about this a couple of weeks ago. I don’t post on Luscious as often as I post here, on Thrums, but whenever I do, oh how I want you to see it! This morning, for instance, my husband made a big batch of pickles for me, as he does every summer, and so I posted it on Luscious. I put a little widget in the sidebar – take a look:

1. At the top is a counter – remember, the person who leaves the 500th comment will win a skein of Noro, brought directly from Tokyo. (I hope it’s you!)
2. Next down is the little “welcome to my blog” widget
3. And underneath that is an RSS feed for my food blog. And right there, the top link is to the pickles post. I’m excited about that one because (1) I adore pickles, (2) especially homemade pickles, (3) the photographs are great simply because how could they not be, given the dark green of the cucumbers and the bright red of the hot cherry peppers, and (4) it’s so easy to make pickles, and they’re so incredibly wonderful, I want to encourage you to make them too.

So anyway, this post is a long, roundabout way of saying that I hope you glance over at that little widget now and then, and head over to Luscious if the subject of a link is interesting. My husband is such an incredible cook, and I bake a lot, so you’ll find some mighty fine eating.

AND! The wedding dress arrived safely in Chicago, and *wonder of wonder, miracle of miracles* the dress fits Marnie beautifully, and she looks absolutely amazing in it. I don’t want to post the quickie photo that she sent, for any of a million reasons, but I will post a photo after the wedding. I was really sweating bullets over the fit of the dress, so what a relief.

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