IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Run, do NOT walk, to your mailbox for the latest edition of Virtuoso Life!
2. Turn off all phones, TVs, and other distractions
3. Pick a cool, mellow jazz song on your iPod (or whatever you use for music) or a funky Jimmy Buffett (my personal fave is "The Weather is Here-I Wish You Were Beautiful")
4. Mix yourself something islandy to sip on while you thoroughly enjoy your virtual vacation
5. Now, contact Ken Marshall, Islands Magazine Travel Expert, ken@greatgetaway.com and turn Virtual into REAL!

You don't subscribe to Virtuoso Life??? Click here for your complementary online copy. You do know VL won a Folio Award for the best travel magazine, don't you?

No, I'm not Scrooge. I'm trying to help you keep what you have! I bet you have a sweater or two that you keep year after year with the thought "I might wear it next year." Of course,   I have several sweaters that fall into that category. What happens? I try it on and it just doesn't look right anymore. However, I end up putting it in the cedar closet hoping that next year it will morph into something I'm dying to wear. Now I offer you 3 options: 1) donate it to charity so someone can benefit from your kindness and actually wear the sweater; 2) If you are a knitter or crocheter (like me),  unravel the sweater–Yes, UN-ravel it! Pick a pattern you like and reknit something useful and fun; 3) go to http://www.rekn.it/ and learn how you can send your sweater to a lady who will reknit it for you.

Just the other day a good friend, who knows I am an avid knitter, told me about this site and then today it popped up on Netted by the Webbys. I decided there are no coincidences and I would pass on this tidbit of repurposing to you. 

Finally, just when you thought I'd blog about something unrelated to travel and you were so thankful, I will add just one travel idea: Why not wear your new, reknit sweater when you visit Paris? How chic to be a fashion statement in the city known for fashion!