Eight More Things

Here we go:
1.  It took me three tries to get my drivers’ license.  Wanna make something of it?
2.  I have never had long hair.  Corollary:  I was often mistaken for a boy until I was 14 or 15.
3.  I collect teapots.   Most recently, the Charlotte di Vita Trade Plus Aid pots.  Sadly, they have been discontinued due [...]

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Tag! I’m it!

So while I was gone, my friend Kyle (from Kyle Knits!) tagged me for the 8 things about yourself meme.  Now, I did do this already, but in the spirit of the game, I told Kyle I’d try to come up with 8 new things.  This will make a total of 16 things about me [...]

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Back at it…

We’re home, and we had a lovely time.  I found a nifty little wool store in Davenport, Iowa (poor Mike had to go golfing instead), and bought this:

up close:

Beautiful colours, and amusingly enough, the sample scarf was in the muliti-directional scarf I am working on now with Silk Garden.  I think that maybe I will [...]

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I’ve only got time for a quickie…

We’re taking off on Tuesday, and of course the first order of business was to organize which knitting I want to take.  I do this every time I travel, and I am always very optimistic about the amount of knitting I am going to do.  This time, I have downsized my expectations and settled on [...]

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I don’t know about your neighborhood, but in my neighborhood garage sales are ubiquitious.  Because we live in a fairly nice area of the city, people assume that we have really good junk.  All you have to do is throw a little ad in the paper, and you can put all your personal detritus out [...]

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Wheels and Needles

We had a really Big Event at our house this week.  Andrew has purchased a New Car.  It’s in his name, it’s his money, it’s fancier than he needed (but not as fancy as he wanted), and now he has to keep working.  I am no longer doing his laundry or cleaning his bathroom.   Children do [...]

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