Trying new things.

In 20 years of knitting, a very first attempt at intarsia.  Not bad.  Not great.  Not sure I enjoyed it.  Probably would have helped if I'd read some instructions first before doing it.  I think I did some sort of hybrid intarsia/stranded knitting combination.  Could have duplicate stitched it on afterwards.  Instead I learned something new.

First attempt at molding chocolate.  Never knew I wanted to until seeing Amy's post here.  Was too late and too close to Easter to order candy molds from here, so almost gave up on the whole idea.  Until I walked into...you guessed it...my trusty local thrift store and right there was a box full of candy molds, one of them the one for these bunnies, for only 50 cents.  A few days later a chunk of good, bulk chocolate was dropped into the mailbox by trusty, chocolate loving friends/neighbors.  Again, they turned out not bad.  Not great.  Not sure I want to really get into doing this. If I do, apparently I need to learn a thing or two about tempering and need a chocolate thermometer.  The boys at least thought the easter bunny did a good job of making them, giving them higher praise than the Lindt ones. Not sure I agree with that. 
What's going on with the changes over at Typepad???  There seems to be some sort of new blogging (not sure if I have the correct word here) interface. Guess it'll just be yet another new thing to learn about.