The Trifles of Trending

Because I am used to living a year in the future, knowing what’s coming in trends, what’s leaving and what is simply a short lived fad that will be pushed hard and then shoved into a dusty corner where all short lived trends go only to make a burst of cash for a designer and [...]

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Because I Deserved It!

If ever I deserved a present it was yesterday.
Yesterday morning I got up and immediately set to work moving all of the furniture out of my tiny apartment living room into the kitchen. I then went to the local hardware store…you know, like the ones that use to be everywhere but aren’t any more. The [...]

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Sweatshop Knits

I’ve been knitting as if my life depended on it, I can’t quite get over how fast I’ve been busting stuff out. I’m already done with the Belle Cardigan from the Fall Interweave. I’m so excited at how it turned out…here she is:

 
Project: Belle Cardigan, Interweave Knits Fall 2007
Yarn: Rowan Big Wool Fusion
Amount Used: 3.75
Color: [...]

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Woops! I Felt that Size Mattered!

Vianne’s Traveling Shawl is complete! However, when it was done it seemed pretty large, when I blocked it, it grew (duh) so I didn’t think it would matter much if for the last few seconds when it was nearly dry that I threw it in the dryer on Med. Heat. Yeah…it mattered. In five minutes [...]

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Cardigan Delima

I think that I have a problem…
I have decided that I must knit fervently  in order to keep myself warm over the next few weeks. It seems that all of my cold weather clothes are packed away in some box in our storage unit to be unearthed when we make our move. However, I looked [...]

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Expensive Taste and the Recycling Gremlins

Apparently my camera has adapted to its owner and refuses to work using cheap-o batteries. I was determined to get a final photo of the Wisp and when I put the new cheap batteries in and hit the photo button the camera would turn off. After all of that and buying better batteries, the boy [...]

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My Labrynth

I currently work for a woman with the early onset of Alzheimer’s, her short term memory is what has left her. I am her assistant, if you will, some days it is hard to feel like much of an assistant because I end up doing the same thing that I did two days ago all [...]

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The Story of a Gypsy

I am a gypsy, a wanderer, a nomad.
Jonathan got the call. We’re moving to Montgomery, Alabama. We don’t know an exact date as of yet but it will likely be within the next few weeks. We’re very excited…let the new nomadic wanderings begin!

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