Overachiever

I was just visiting Jo at Celtic Memory Yarns, and through a link to  Marianne in Norway (I love how the internet shrinks the globe, don’t you?) I found this video.  All I can say is Wow.

Wow.
Wow.
Wow.

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and so it is Finished!

After reading Brooklyn Tweed last week (the November 13th post), I did a little browsing on the internet and decided that a really chunky throw was just what my brother-in-law needed for Christmas.   I landed at Lion Brand’s website, and after downloading the pattern (free) for this little number,  I ran out last [...]

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And so it begins.

I was reading Brooklyn Tweed day before yesterday (his November 13th  post) because I didn’t feel like working on the Christmas Project that Takes Forever, and what do you suppose? Inspiration!   Now I have another Christmas project to do.  I like this game.

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Recipe of the Day

Ingredients:
1 Liquidation store
1 really big purchase of clearance stock from one of my fave clothing merchants, Coldwater Creek
1 ad in the paper saying “one item for $12, 2 for $10 each, 3 or more $8 each”
1 friend-of-a-friend who read the ad in the paper and told one person
a large measure of women who would ordinarily [...]

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Answer

In answer to the question, the new header photo was taken under an Alberta sky (a little geographic latitude, if you don’t mind) on the way to Calgary in July.  I took it out through the windshield of the car at a little over the speed limit (okay, Mike was driving, so it was a [...]

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Necessity is the mother of invention blah blah blah…

Do you ever see something that you must have, even though you have no idea when you’ll use it?  Me too.   While perusing a catalogue from a yarn supplier, I noticed a gadget that can measure the length of yarn that you feed through it.  Now, I know that sometimes I have leftover yarn that [...]

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Untitled and Mildly Pointless

I don’t know how many of you read Franklin Habit’s Panopticon blog, but you might want to give it a look.   I have been following Dolores van Hoofen’s run for the White House with even more interest than I watch Saturday Night Live, and imagine my surprise when I saw that she had been in [...]

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October Wrap-up

The only trouble with not blogging for a while is coming up with a catchy title and opening line.  I give up.
Our trip to British Columbia was quite enjoyable.  Every pleasant autumn day is a bonus, and we had those while we were gone.  (Apparently we missed a really big wind back home, but the [...]

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