Hail Heroku! Welcome Thingerling.com!

I praised github a couple of posts back for how easy it was to get started. Well, Heroku was just as easy to set up. I put up my new company website Thingerling.com yesterday in just a couple of hours. And most of that was spent learning to use Rails and "designing" the page template, which is super bare bones, but I like to think it has a casual elegance. And it was all totally free, given that I already have a github account and a domain name!

Perhaps this was overkill for a static website, but hopefully I'll be doing something a little more fun with it at some point. Plus, did I mention dead simple and totally free?

Knitting Project: Baby Slipper Sandals

I finally completed the sandals I was knitting for my new niece last night. They knit up pretty quickly, even with all the turning and picking up stitches. The thing that took the longest was sewing on the last button!

They're from the Baby Cashmerino book by Debbie Bliss. I opted for a similar, machine washable yarn instead of Baby Cashmerino, as exquisite as those colors are. Still, this pink is cute enough.

Now my niece just needs to age a bit to grow into them. And it would be great if her right foot happens to end up slightly longer than her left.