Irony

It’s Fleet Week here in San Francisco.  What does this mean to me, a Canadian?  This means that down on Fisherman’s Wharf, while the Navy recruiting booth was enticing potential recruits with their message of  “Defend the country- protect the environment”, the Blue Angels were screeching overhead using up as many carbon credits as Al [...]

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In which I present my first weaving projects

Instead of rushing out the door today to go to my regular S&B, I am, once again, waiting for the tradeguys to show up to stretch the carpet.  I have amused myself so far by doing the dishes, drinking coffee, taking copious pictures of my first children woven scarves, and posting the projects on Ravelry.  [...]

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and to the patient comes good things…

and that’s “patient” as in “not impatient”.   My little reward of the day was seeing a little bit of Darwinism at work.   I was in the parking lot at Home Depot, and walked past a guy who was trying to load two garage doors into his minivan.   To his credit, he was at least [...]

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Found!

So I don’t know what brilliant person thought that hanging my needle bag on the doorknob of the closet where the stash lives and then putting the ironing board in front of the closet door (yes, I do own an ironing board and I’m not afraid to use it.  Why do you ask?) was a [...]

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After Stitches

I am home again from Stitches Saskatchewan 2009, and boy!  Did I have fun!
I am a very reluctant photographer; it turns out I’m a little shy about taking pictures of people I just met.  So, this post will be a little shy on pictures, but hopefully I took enough to convince you that I was [...]

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Custom Header, or a little joke. Very little.

You know how sometimes you make a little joke, and it’s really funny and makes you laugh, and it’s really better if you don’t say anything to anyone about it or it might not be as funny, but you’re just so impressed with the joke that you have to tell someone?  Check out my header.  [...]

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Well bless my buttons! I have to thank Kyle for this most auspicious of honours!

I’d like to thank my mother and father, my sisters and their families, the girls from dinner club, my husband – my husband Mike who has put up with my moods forever, my darling children Geoffrey and Andy, my two [...]

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and now, for something completely different…

You think you’re creative? Check this out.

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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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