Fall 2021 Life Update || EWE UNIVERSITY
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Hi everyone! It's been a while since I posted a video, so this one is just a chatty story-time to catch up with what I've been doing. I recorded it on Halloween. 👻🎃🦇 Leave a comment below and let me know what you've been up to. Thanks for watching!
LINKS TO THINGS I TALKED ABOUT:
My Etsy Shop: www.halcyarn.etsy.com
Easy Hat Knitting Pattern: shorturl.at/wUY14
Brooklyn Tweed Shelter Yarn: brooklyntweed....
Mountain Meadow Wool Suffolk Yarn: shorturl.at/cyzBG
Basketweave Baby Blanket Knitting Pattern: shorturl.at/lnuGW
Cascade Pacific Chunky Yarn: shorturl.at/uzNZ3
Framesi Purple Shampoo: shorturl.at/ortEP
Viral Colorwash Pastel Silver: shorturl.at/clCR8
Mane Magic by Eva NYC: shorturl.at/djmAZ
EyeBuyDirect: eyebuydirect.com
Mexican Gothic Scary Novel: shorturl.at/jDP45
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My Monkey (who's always peeking out from somewhere in the background in my videos) was made for me by my friend, Gail. She used this pattern: goo.gl/BaWF2W
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Kristine Kelly
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If you are passionately curious and never get tired of learning new things, new skills, new ideas...I hope you enjoy watching my videos and learn something. Have a sparkly day!
Lovely to see you...you've been missed.
love your new hair style. you look beautiful.
Lovely to see you again! 😍
Happy USA Thanksgiving Dr Kelly and family including your four legged members! 🎵🎶🎵🎶❄🇨🇦🌞
Kristine, searching google until my memory jogged and I found “ewe” was such a happy outcome. Watching your blog was like reconnecting with a friend from long ago. You came to mind when I was comparing knitting needles before ordering replacements and I remembered the detailed reviews you shared with regard to material, point sharpness, etc. I could see in your eyes that a lot has happened in the three years since I last visited your channel. My eyes watered as I thought how many changes occurred in my life too. Happy for you to open yourself to finding Summer and the joy she brings. My iPad keeps jolting me with photos (unbidden) of a beloved cat who died in 2022 and our eldest son who suddenly died in December, 2021. When I see these images I keep thinking that it is less painful (and maybe it is). Anyway, just wanted to tell you that you are a welcome presence in the world of crafting and life.
I LOVED your update. You are my favorite! I have been knitting lots and lots of socks lately. Thanks for your review of Mexican Gothic. I will definitely bypass the audiobook and read the text version!
Good to see you back. We share hobbies/stuff. Gray (I'm natural) & readers (one everywhere), knitting (not destashing), fountain pens (rediscovering... found one of many...and bought more in place of yarn), reading (Marie Kondo....read it & pass it along.)....haven't uncovered the sewing machine in years. I'm glad you're well and back (I lost you tube for months )(I did something wrong, update issue) (didn't miss). Be well always!!!!.
So glad you have stayed safe. Good to gear you voice
I’m SO GLAD to see you back!
Woohoo!!! You’re back!!!! Adore the fabulous look, and really appreciate your honest review of Eye Buy Direct. I also wear progressives and assumed it would be too hard to get that right with an online glasses company. I will try them, now!!! Stay well!
Love to see you again and that you are doing well ! Thank you for not forgeting us!
Hi Kristine. Great to see you again. I don’t know how I missed this video. I saw your Christmas gift video that came out yesterday and realized I missed this one. I’m glad to hear that you were able to work out your classes using Zoom. All of my hearings and client visits have been on Zoom except 1 I had last month. We had to go in to court and I wasn’t happy. But it worked out fine. I’m also glad to hear that your husband is much better. Great news! Your glasses are very pretty. Thanks for the website. Love your hair too! I stopped coloring my hair after 40 years in August of 2019. I went gray very young. Perfect timing as the pandemic started 8 months later so no one really saw it as it grew out. I’m basically done now and I love it! It’s quite white with a silver shimmer. I wish I did it 20 years ago!
Love your hats! Knitting hats are fun! Congratulations on your new dog, Summer! It was definitely meant to be. As far as your book recommendation, I’m thinking no, lol. I’m an avid reader but the horror genre is just not my thing, lol. Again, great to see you. Enjoy your sabbatical! Now I’m off to your latest video!🤗😊
Well, I am late to the game but catching up. Totally get the whole downsizing, simplifying one's life. Going through some of those changes myself. Love the new color, I went from reddish blonde to light Auburn and it definitely got noticed. I decided to keep it awhile. This is the year I decided to focus on learning two things, master my CSM and my electric spinner. So right now every Sunday afternoon is devoted to my CSM. By summer I'll work more with my spinner too. I moved my craft room from an outside studio to an inside spare bedroom with lots of windows and now it's easier than ever to spend time in my favorite room no matter the weather or the time of day or evening. I'm off to watch you next video, glad you are feeling better, staying healthy and able to make more videos. Sparkle on!
Dipped back over. Last 20 mos have mourned loss of reading ability, loss of easy knitting for the brain fog and fumbly fingers, the fear of having to go to assisted living for the profound fatigue and weakness so turned inward. Now that Mestinon has given me back reading and a bit of activity and beat back the physical stuff a bit, met people also with MG who counter MD putdowns, I am gradually looking in on things I used to enjoy. Glad your life has settled some. I used Zenni to get purple progressives for about $50, they are totally able survive my falls, not sure my expensive professional looking pair would. Currently finishing a sweater of homespun alpaca, when I felt at loose ends, unable to read or edit the writing I had done I set to drop spinning to metaphorically gather my loose ends as well as exercise finger grips that were being affected. Son called me a scary aggressive spinner... went through about 12lbs of fleece before I got a good neuro. Discovered the gorgeous, well balanced yarn I produced didn't play well with many patterns(14wpi). Would have thought I would have evaluated as I went wouldn't you?Thank you for explaining the hair regime, let me see will be easier to just let my vivid white with blonde streak and smatters of dark brown be and pretend being a reverse Jacob sheep was what I was going for.
Hi Kristine, it's been a while and I have missed your videos.
Glad everything is settling down for you.
These past couple of years have been hard ones.
Lots of missed time with the family.
The book doesn't sound one for me, not into scary books or films.
Love the hair, it is something I've been considering. I started going grey at 15 and have colored my hair since then. Would have to add up how much I've spent over the years.
Good to see you again.
Take care and keep safe. xxJane
So happy to see you back I have missed you. I love your calmness and information, I hope you will continue EU. Also my husband and I collect fountain pens so it would be great to see a video on pens. Welcome back!
Wonderful to hear and see you again. Had wondered how you were doing. Glad to hear that you and your husband are now better.
Podcast full of a nice variety of non-knitting content. Hearing about your teaching challenges during the past year and your sabbatical project was very interesting. As someone who now has a lot more grey hair it was nice to hear of the various products. Great show and tell of the eyeglass frames and appreciate the info. Thank you.
Spent most of my time reading a combination of non-fiction and cozy mysteries. One of the best books read this year was The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia I. Postrel (the audiobook is also good and narrated by Caroline Cole). Have you read it?
It’s great to hear from you Kristine. Thanks for sharing all you been up to including all the challenges with teaching. I feel for not only the teachers but students too with all that this last 20 months have created. I’m thankful for teachers like you who have hung in there and figured out what works best. I always love your videos and learn so much from you. Thanks also for sharing about your eye glasses. I will definitely give them a try as the last time I purchased from my eye doctor the glasses were well over $300 with insurance. 🤷🏻♀️
It’s so great to see you on here again! You look great! Next month I’m getting spinal fusión surgery and I’m stressing out! Lots of pain, unable to walk and worrying about the surgery! I’ve been knitting on the my cozy memories blanket but my sock yarn stash isn’t that extensive so it’s going to be put away for awhile!
so glad to see you. I always enjoy your podcasts, whether they are life updates or contain knitting knowledge. so glad you were able to adopt the golden! Sorry about your surgery, but it sounds like you are well on the mend! Everyone who is working through COVID has been challenged. I experienced severe tendonitis in both wrists from teleworking with a bad ergo set up and increased typing because we could not see each other in person, resulting in a significant increase in email and instant message as the work around. I went back to my office early to avoid buying office furniture. I read the Marie Kondo book and have purged most the areas. I need to tackle the memoribilia next, to include my mother's memorobilia as she died last November. Anyway, I am intrigued by your study topic. Sometimes being with people is positive for me; unfortunately, as an introvert, being with people exhausts me. I am very interested in your results!
Kristine I was just thinking I hadn’t seen a video from you in ages so I typed you in the search line and there you were! Thanks for the update…always good to know all is well with someone you have been following for ages.
It's good to see you back, you always have such good information.
I'm glad to hear about the eye glass place as my prescription needs changing and I also need cataract surgery. I have been holding off since our state (Montana) is in a Covid surge and I don't want to risk surgery at this time. My last pair of glasses was over $800 (no Insurance) so I didn't want to get glasses and then have the surgery and not need them. With the online option I can afford to get glasses to tide me over until I feel ready for the cataract surgery. Thanks again.
I am so happy to see you again! I always enjoy your videos.
I’ve missed you and I was glad to see your video.
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Hello! 😄
Glad you are back
Hello, and thank you so much. Great to hear from you! 💜
Great to see you!!
Hi Elissa -- thank you so much; great to hear from you! 💜
So so great to see you again. Have been concerned about you, so thank you for updating us. So glad your and your husband's medical issues are resolved and that you ended up with Summer. I have family member educators and you get high praises for working through such tough circumstances. I hadn't seen your gorgeous silver hair before and immediately thought this colour is perfect for you -- it looks so natural and I think allows you to wear more colours. I understand about having to pick your favourite hobbies and let some go. I recently realized that life is too short to learn and do everything I want to, so I better shorten the list and find more contentment in the long run. Really hope you will be able to do more videos, but always put your health first and that includes mental health. You've been through a lot in the last while so be kind to yourself.
Awwww thank you Mary -- you are so sweet! 💜 Yes, I'm finding that with fewer hobbies I feel more free to do the ones I love. I've got so many videos in the works (research) so I will definitely be recording more. 😄
SO lovely to see you again!!!!! Hopefully you’re back to stay. Beverly
Hello! Thank you so much for the kind comment. :hug
So mice to hear from you
Hi Jackie -- thanks so much for watching! 😃
Great to see you again!
Thanks, Yvonne -- so nice to hear from you. 💜
I am ready new Kathy reichs novel
Hi Glenda -- that book sounds right up my husband's alley. He loves crime novels. 😄
So good to see you again. I always learn from you. So enjoyable. Keep healthy.
Thanks so much, Marebeth -- great to see you here! ❤
So glad to see you Kristine. ZEN HUGS.
Susanna! Always so nice to hear from you. Hugs back! 💜
nice to see you again.
have fun with your sabbatical will be interested in what you discover. 🧚🏼♀️
Hi Geri -- great to hear from you. Thanks for your nice comment. 😄
I’m so glad you are back!
Thanks, Bev -- so nice to hear from you! 💜
I would love to hear about your fountain pen collection:)))
Hello -- thanks; I think I will do that in a video soon. 😄
Yay! You are back!!! Well...that was selfish :) Seriously, glad to see your face again.
Hello -- awww, you're so sweet. Great to hear from you! 💜
Wow so good to see you again 🙂
Thanks, Joan -- great to hear from you! 💜
This was great and wonderful to see you again. Thank you for the Eye Direct info. I will check it out. Take care and hope to see you again.
Hi Cyndie -- thank you for your kindness. I'm sure you will find some glasses you love! 💖
It was very nice to see you again, Dr. Kelly. I enjoyed your video very much. I finished crocheting a Christmas ornament while I listened!
Hi Mary -- thank you so much. 💜 Great to hear from you! That's awesome about the ornament. Is it a gift or are you making them for your own tree? How many are you making?
Hello from Arkansas. It's been a while. Good to see you on the tube. Love the hair.
Hi Chris -- thank you; that is so sweet. Great to hear from you. 💜
So nice to see you again. Thought of you recently and wondered how you were doing. You have been missed.
Aww thanks, Bilee. You are so sweet. Great to hear from you. 💜
Lovely to see and chat with you.....you did hear me answering you and commenting? I had three pugs....Dad, Mom and baby Charlie. Max was almost 16 and Angelina was 15. They passed within a month of each other. So difficult! Charlie is 12 and never leaves my side. Sorry for your loss. I'm trying to be a minimalist knitter too. I was searching for something to listen to and up popped The Wind in the Willows. It had been years since I last read the adventures of Mr. Toad, Ratty, Mole and Badger. Such wonderful language. Excellent reader. I'm knitting socks and dishcloths. 🙂
Hello! So nice to hear from you. Oh the dogs -- my heart is breaking for you. How neat to rediscover that book. I love your "minimalist knitter" philosophy. That's my goal, too. Happy knitting! 💖
So good to see you. At the 9 minute mark, I stopped the video and went to your Etsy. Adopted two of your wonderful skeins and had to buy the Elvis bag too. I'm still knitting socks. Always have one on my needles. I've also jumped into the cross stitching rabbit hole. No other knitting WIPS. Two cross stitch WIPs. Much love from your stitchy friend
Hi Roseana -- thank you so much! I sent your order out today. 😄 Yes -- socks and cross stitch sound awesome. 💜
Nice to see you again! I've been reading a LOT, but my current read is Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby. Not for the faint of heart, but SO good.
Hi Amy -- so nice to see your comment! As a squeamish person, I'd better stay away from that one, lol! ❤
Yay! I was happy to see a new podcast today. Your new hair color is very becoming along with your new hairstyle.
Most of my reading lately has been with the Libby app...novels about the Amish.
I have been knitting socks and a shawl...your 2015 Ewe University button is still on my knitting project bag...
it moved with us from Alabama to Illinois a couple of years ago.
Summer is a pretty dog, and I like her name. I wish you and your family many blessings as we enter the month of November.
Hi Diane -- so great to hear from you. The books sound very interesting. That's awesome about the Ewe U button! (I have a new one if you want me to send you one -- email me with your address.) 💜
Great to see you again! I always enjoy your episodes. I was happy to help you out with your destash!
Hi Andrea -- thank you so much! Felt like I sent the yarn to a friend. You should get it soon! 😄
Nice to see you! You were missed.
Thank you, Danielle. So nice to hear from you. 💜
So nice you are back and well. Always enjoy your content
Hello! Thank you so much for your nice comment! 😃
So glad to see you back. I so enjoy your podcast! I never would have found the wonderful Laundress wool wash if I had not seen your testing. Life has been off kilter for all of us this past year and a half. I also went through all of my stash. I had storage boxes full of yarn that I had purchased when I first started knitting yearsssssss ago. So it was no longer yarn I enjoyed knitting with. Almost all of it was acrylic which is a great yarn for certain projects. A local church group makes projects for various charities and was thrilled to get it. My hair is also going Gray. Since my hair is a dirty blond color it looks like I have been putting in strands of highlites. Win win.
Hi Tanya -- so nice to hear from you. I still love the Laundress wool wash, too. It is great that you donated your yarn to the charity group. I had the same situation with some of my yarn (old from when I first started knitting), and I donated it, too. With your hair, I'm sure you are a fashionista! 💖
So happy to see you back. You look great. I find it funny that people are choosing to color their hair silver given that my hair has been going gray since I was 13 and I have never colored it. At this point my hair is salt and pepper and finally in fashion. Join the club of those of us without a gallbladder. Be careful with your Thanksgiving day meal.
Hello -- thank you so much! Well you are a fashionista with your trendy salt and pepper hair. 😄 Yes, we will probably take it easy at Thanksgiving this year. 💜
HI Kristine! It is so good to see another video from you, its been too long! I hope you can find time for more videos, I have always enjoyed your channel.
Hello, and thank you! So nice to hear from you. I will do my best. 😄
Wonderful to see you again!! Be well!
Hi Gayle -- thanks for the sweet comment. Great to hear from you! 💜
@@EweUniversity I retired from teaching just before the pandemic! Ii can imagine how stressful it has been for you!! I taught my grandson at home as zoom learning was hard for him! Nobody had a great academic experience that year!! Hope we will see more of you!
I just sent you an email. Came on UA-cam and saw you! How awesome. 😍
Hi Mary Ellen -- thanks for your kindness. 😄
I love your hair. Also, I am glad to see you again.
Hi Cate -- so nice to see your comment; thank you for your kindness. 😄
Welcome back!
Thank you! 😊
I have a few lovely fountain pens and use them daily. Would love to see your collection and opinions etc.
Hi Jeanine -- thank you; I will try to include that in an upcoming video. I just love fountain pens that are good. Don't have to be expensive, just flow well. One of my favorites was like $10 but it writes so smoothly.
@@EweUniversity I agree. I love using the mini Petit 1 by Pilot that Bought at a paper store in Vancouver. I have them in 4 colours with ink to match!
It's so great to see you here! I was getting worried about you. I was thinking last week that I would maybe write you from my university email (I'm a psych faculty member at Northcentral University and a couple of times gave my students the link to your video on positive psychology and knitting) to your university email. It is really wonderful to see you and I had forgotten how informative your videos are especially when you're covering all kinds of things. I am on leave from my university at the moment (my husband was diagnosed with brain cancer in February and passed away in July). I teach only online and I'm missing out but I'm also grateful I have a couple more months on the leave. I've just started knitting seriously again (it was hard to knit while he was ill) so I'm so glad that you're back. Your research sounds fascinating too!
Oh Nan -- wonderful to see you here but I am so sorry to hear about your husband. Please accept my deepest condolences. Take care of yourself. 💖
@@EweUniversity Thank you so much, Kristine. He was really a lovely guy and it's been a thing trying to figure out who I am without him. Knitting, sewing, teaching, and working on his legacy in our corner of psychology have been helping. But so is binge-watching knitting podcasts, so I'm so glad to see you back!
So glad to see you! Your hair looks amazing!
Aww, thanks, Kaleb. Great to hear from you! 💜
I agree!
Love your new look. I have been knitting cardigan sweaters for my husband and myself and lots of socks. I just love to knit socks and my husband and I both only wear hand knit socks now that I finally have knit us enough. Great podcast thank you so much you have been missed a lot.
Hi Sue -- oh thank you so much. Wow, two adult cardigans is ambitious! You'll both be toasty this winter with your sweaters and socks. 💜
It's so great to see you, thanks for recording this chatty video. I just love the way you review things and even when it's something I have no interest in your compassion is enough to get my to think about exploring something new. Your sabbatical sounds very interesting. Hope you will come back soon. I've been knitting up a storm lately.
Thanks, Katie -- you are so sweet! 💜 What have you been knitting?
@@EweUniversity during this month my focus has been knitting a pair of socks and a few Stephen West shawls. As it gets colder I will think about pulling out some of the larger blanket projects that haven't seen any love lately. I like to have options.
What a happy surprise to see your new episode! I love the picture of your cat and dog sharing the same bed. So sweet! Your study sounds really interesting and I'd love to hear all about it and the results. Hugs, Valerie
Valerie! Awesome to see your comment. Yes, Summer and River get along great. One night I woke up and turned on the light, and they were both snuggling on the dog bed in the bedroom. Cutest thing. And I'm sure I will tell you all about the study. 💜 😄
So nice to see you back. I’m also a psych professor, but went entirely virtual last year. Now we’re back to face-to-face, with both a vaccine and mask mandate, and our Covid numbers have been very low (thank goodness!).
I started doing more cross stitch during the pandemic and have lost a bit of my knitting mojo. It might be because I rarely went out for a year, so my knitted garments have laid dormant.
Hi Virginia -- great to hear from you! Yes, my university is the same with the mandates and fairly low cases. Fingers crossed. I'm so hoping we can have some kind of normal in the spring semester. Cross stitch is becoming more popular among people I know, maybe for the same reason. 💜
Woo-hoo! So good to see you again! I was afraid you would stop vlogging after the covid interruption. I get attached to vloggers, and then they stop, and I worry that something bad has happened to them. Would love a fountain pen review, and glad for you to get decluttered-those things in the closet can weigh on your mind. I'm knitting socks for my husband. They're cabled, and I'm having trouble with the yarn separating so I don't pick up all the threads-very frustrating. Also crocheting a pocket scarf for my aunt-nice to do while listening to audiobooks.
Hi Jeanette! So great to hear from you. I think I would enjoy talking about my fountain pens. I will try to work that in soon. Your cabled socks sound gorgeous (but sorry about the splitty yarn). Yes, that's one reason I love audiobooks. 💜
Oh, and a big YES to hearing about your fountain pens and inks :)
Thanks, Mary -- I think I would enjoy talking about them so will try to work that in soon. 😄
Loved seeing you again ❤. You got me started on reading scary books in October. It was The Shining for me this year. My favorite has to be Frankenstein! Thank you!
Hi Susan -- great to hear from you! Ooohhh, I used to read all of Stephen King's books when I was younger, like in my 20's. I had to stop with Misery because it was too gross. 😨 Frankenstein made me so sad! He was created and then no one liked him -- rejection. 😢 By the way, how did you like The Shining?
Lovely to see you again. As an educator, last year was really tough on me, too, mainly because in my country we don’t have the infrastructure for successful online teaching. Many of my students have only a phone and a poor internet connection and even the supposedly good internet couldn’t cope with the traffic. But now back to mainly in person teaching. Love your new dog and your hair looks great.
Hi Margaret -- great to hear from you! That's too bad about the remote learning, but glad you are able to be back in person. Thanks for your kind comments. 💜
Nice to see you! We finally got another dog, too. Once you have a dog it's hard not too. ;) I haven't read that book yet so I'll listen to what it's about later!
Heidi!! So nice to hear from you. It is great that you got another dog -- what kind and what is his/her name? I am hardly ever on Facebook, but I saw your husband's great news -- joyous!! Love to both of you! 💜
Awesome to see you again!! I have been thinking about you and wondering how you are and praying all is well with you. So glad you are back, I love your podcasts.
Thanks so much, Leslie -- great to hear from you! 💜
So happy to see you Dr. Kelly I began listening to audiobooks as a result of your discussions
Thanks, Debra -- that's awesome! Are you listening to anything right now?
@@EweUniversity I have been reading or listening to books by Maureen Jennings a British Canadian author most recently the Tom Tyler series Several of her books have a historical mystery flair The Murdock series was adapted for television You may enjoy the historical nature 😊
Have you been knitting any socks over the past two years? I adore our furry family members and am happy for you and your new girl♡
I have been working on several pairs of socks that I started LONG ago, but so far I haven't finished any of them, haha!
@@EweUniversity I have been thinking about taking some sock knitting classes My local yarn shop is offering classes periodically Due to COVID I have postponed that idea I bought some merino wool from Italy for a scarf though
So good to see you!
Hi Pat -- thank you; so nice to hear from you! 💜