Monthly Archives: June 2008

Take this pencil roving and…

So I owe you all a post that isn’t all like “blah blah blah etsy blah blah tired blah blah can’t think” right?
Right!
The newsI started my new-ish job today. And so far, I haven’t done anything new! This is probably because it is a) Monday and b) Monday before a statutory holiday. Downtown Ottawa is [...]

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How you know you’ve dyed too much and my HHHH Questionnaire

Dream dyes or dye dreaming?
The whole etsy thing has my brain feeling like I’m on uppers ALL the time. Its new for me so I think I just have to figure out how to fit it into the rest of my life.
Its the only explanation I have for waking up on Sunday morning thinking [...]

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Is that a bandwagon I see in the distance?

It’s 1:35 a.m. and I am awake because I have cats – and these cats decided that midnight was the BEST TIME EVER to play in my room.

And I was going to post my mosaic of the meme with the twelve items you search on flickr and then choose photos and stick them in a [...]

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A poem…

I gave it a try
To Navajo ply

Yeah, all right, I’m no poet. I can navajo ply however! At least NOW I can.

At first I got off to a rough start. This was not due to the singles I was plying which was lovely copper coloured superwash merino. It was not due to the teaching at [...]

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Mail!…what I spun…Q&A

Hi everyone – I have so much in my head I can’t possibly get it all down in one post or a) I’ll be here forever and b) it will make no sense.

So I’m going to curb my enthusiasm a bit and focus on one thing at a time.

The stuff that’s hit my mailbox this [...]

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No pretty pictures

Yep – no pictures today – mostly because it hasn’t stopped raining since the weekend. So instead I will answer a meme I kind of self-tagged myself with by reading indigodragonfly’s blog (go visit but consider yourself duly warned)…
1) What was I doing ten years ago?Nursing a 6 month old…staggering through my life in [...]

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WWKIP – Self-employment is exhausting

Happy Worldwide Knit in Public Day!
If you didn’t KNOW today was WWKIP Day then I do forgive you – I understand that there are a great many people who don’t knit. This includes a bunch of folks in Major Hill’s Park today – the guys in the conservation truck that slowed right down, the folks [...]

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Climb ladder…3 steps…bounce…dive!

I did it…
Three By Hand
More tomorrow…right now, I’m tuckered!

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There and back again; up to my ears in wool

The news

So the “dude” and I headed off into the wild blue yonder – ambled down the highway at a leisurely pace of 15 km per hour above the speed limit – to the Big City. Actually we hit surburbia and went to Whitby – about 50-odd (give or take 25 km depending on which [...]

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I did it!

I bought (actually leased) a new car!

I picked up my brand spankin’ new black Vibe from the dealership last night. My fiber can now travel in air conditioned, fuel-efficient comfort!

(picture stolen from Google Images – plus mine is black)

I haven’t had time to explore the car much seeing as how work is kicking my ass [...]

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