MaryJanesFarm - my new favorite magazine

I admit, I have a magazine issue (eye roll for the pun.) For years I would buy all kinds of magazines - BUST, Bitch, Cosmo, Glamour etc - all of them. Then I started to get fed up with Cosmo and Glamour and the like. So I dropped those but found others - Real Simple, Martha Stewart... assorted cooking magazines. Home and garden style magazines. Organic magazines. Craft magazines. Knitting magazines. Health / fitness magazines. Pregnancy magazines. Parenting magazines. Dog magazines.

For a while I've been good - I've been keeping track of what I have, what I like, and either cancelling subscriptions when I realize that a magazine is pure trash or not renewing if I find I'm just not getting anything out of the magazine any more. I'm also better about saving stuff from the magazine for my idea file - I tear out the page (craft / cooking / health / shopping / etc) and stuff it in a file folder and the magazine goes into the recycle bin right away.

Last night after SnB I popped into the bookstore. That can be dangerous for me - they have so many more magazines! I was very good though and only bought one because I was so excited to see it (didn't know such a thing existed!)
MaryJanesFarm magazine - farmgirls!!


This issue has the overall theme of "Simply Bee - the Spirit of the Beehive" and I have to say I love it! I love the feel of the paper, I love the way it's laid out, I love the informative articles (Why are the bees disappearing? Natural Sweetners! Recycle felted sweaters!). I love the quotations throughout. I like the ads.
I think I'm going to subscribe...

Links I love (found in the issue)
**CTHoney.com - local honey, Bees without Borders
**Schoolgardenco.com - natural bodycare products, profits go to schools
**Sweetpoison.com - Aspartame dangers
**There's a brief story that makes me want to make a hexagon quilt

This post is full of random content

I got an early birthday (June 20) present today - a new ipod! 80Gb / video baby! Wow - now I need many more video podcasts! Suggestions? Are there knitting videos for the ipods yet? I had a lot of fun moving through the music library - all I want to do is sort through my cds too!

I've started the Saturday Market Bag from magknits using Lion Cotton. I think I messed up somewhere - the 4th row repeat didn't make sense to me - p3? I could p2 and then drop the yo... I had to rip out the first attempt as I misread p2 to be purl 2 together for some odd reason.

Reminder to self: You joined the June XY along at Get Stitchy - make the bowtie.

I picked up a new magazine yesterday, Kiwi - it's about organic living and stuff. There was a great advertising surprise inside from my new favorite snack company, Fruitabu - there was a magnet, coupon for a free box, iron on transfers and stickers! My other new favorite snack are the Impossibly Good Flat Earth veggie crisps (Garlic and Herb) - serving of veggies while I think I'm eating chips? Excellent.