Author Archives: Lisa

I’m doing better

Hi all -
Just a quick note amidst the Christmas rushing that I am doing better — thanks to acupuncture. While I’m a bit freaked out that I am paying someone money to stick me full of needles, I am thrilled to have some relief.
Typing is still a bit troublesome which makes work…um…interesting.
But I can [...]

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Short…I hope…hiatus

The kitchen has definitely taken up a lot of time and energy lately. And its coming along fine. I have a working kitchen which is all I can ask for right now.
This is not why I am declaring a hiatus.
My hands are numb and its 24 hours a day at this point…it seems [...]

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Show some love!

Hey guys -
Chriss of the comments – spinner, knitting teacher extraordinaire, designer and all around nicest of persons – has opened her online shoppe! Head on over to check out roving handspun, stitch markers and buttons.
I beg you…someone please buy the purples and blues roving…my stash is bursting at the seams and no [...]

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Hey!

“Um…Miss? Back in here in the last row! Waving my hand in the air!!!”
Many apologies to everyone for not posting, commenting on other blogs or even, really, knitting much at all.
Normally I’d skip the excuse and get to the good stuff…except there is no good stuff, only the excuse.
I am renovating the [...]

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Thanks to SP10 – goodbye kitchen from hell – Hello startitis!

(insert usual bloggy excuses for lameness of recent blogs, lack of updating and general laziness. Done? Good…let’s move on…)
First up…recent acquisitions and mergers!

First of all, there was a serious destashing that involved handing off some really yummy yarn I knew I’d never get around to knitting, or it was really nice stuff [...]

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Now we are ten…

Tomorrow Madeline turns 10…and I guess so do I!
I try to celebrate a bit the day before – the anniversary of the day I finally went into labour with her. Becoming a parent is such a huge life-altering event -more so than any birthday or anniversary – that I think its important to take [...]

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A new definition

Depressing: Adding a map to your blog and only having one spot on it (and you know its yours).

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Stopping by with thank yous!

Thanks to everyone for the insightful and supportive comments on my earlier post. I am feeling more at peace now that some time has passed and I’ve come to accept a new phase of being in my own skin. Its pretty damned comfortable here (if slightly roomier than I like!).
My last two weeks [...]

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Huh??

What are you doing here?
The new Knitty is up.

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How do you fill the empty spaces?

My marriage ended about 5.5 years ago after 11 years of being together. I can only describe the time before I met K (BK) and after (AK) as times of desperation – wanting to have a relationship, believing with all my heart that love was out there etc etc. And while I was married I [...]

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