Finally, my debut into the literary world! Does that make me a debutante?

Welcome to my blog, and holy fricking cow!  This is my second attempt at this entry, because I went to view my site and forgot to save and continue editing.  I was wondering what that nails scraping a blackboard sound was about, well, now I know and I certainly won’t do THAT again!  This is particularly annoying since it has taken me two agonizing days to get this mess up.   Well, not actually agonizing like in the sense of the crucifixion or anything(hells bells, that was not meant to be blasphemous)…OK, agonizing was definitely not the right word.  I’m thinking that sitting down at the computer and just spewing forth whatever dances through my head is probably not a good idea(maybe going with this stream of consiousness thing is not so wise), but I don’t want to delete this entry since it is my second attempt, within the last half hour, to get something down on virtual paper, and it contains valuable lessons that I DON’T want to forget(i.e. the inadvertent deleting, the rambling).

 Anyway, on to better things.  Last night, I finally got to watch La Vie en Rose on DVD.  What an amazing performance by Marion Cotillard!  No wonder she won the Oscar for Best Actress for her uncanny portrayal of Edith Piaf.  Although I have enjoyed listening to Edith Piaf for many years, I knew relatively little about her.  Just that she was a beloved, very famous French chanteuse.  This movie was very insightful and well researched .  Learning that Edith Piaf was an avid knitter was so cool!  There were scenes that included her talking about not finishing a sleeve of a sweater, naming knitting as what she does in her spare time, and showing her going to the beach to knit.   Yessssss!!!  Perhaps, unless you understand spoken French, it would be a good idea to just watch the movie the first time you watch it, since it is subtitled.  Subsequent watchings would be OK to knit to since you will have a general idea of when to look up when a knitting scene comes on. 

Another subtitled, French movie that includes knitting/crocheting, and is absolutely adorable and fun is Amelie.  One of the quirky characters(they are pretty much all quirky), knits and crochets and is an absolute riot.  Again, maybe not good to knit to the first time you watch it, but OK after the first initial watching. 

A favorite to-knit-to film of my knitting friends and mine, is Practical Magic.  It has a sort of uniqueish antique yarn swift, and a dining room breakfront filled with cones of yarn.  We watched this at our LYS, Wild Fibre in Savannah, one Friday night.  Ahhhh…knitting friends, yarn, good eats, adult beverages and a knitting chick flick…it just doesn’t get any better than that!

 Another film I have heard about from knitting friends, in reference to the knitted costume pieces, is The Golden Compass.  That sounds like a movie worth watching, and it will be awesome when that comes out on DVD.

Toward the end of La Vie en Rose,Edith is shown, as a child, wearing an adorable cardigan that I would love to translate in to a pattern.  Hmmm…one day…perhaps…maybe…