By Lisa | October 13, 2008
Massive picture-heavy post!
Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canadians today – I hope your day is full of turkey and family (for some) and sleep and rest (for the others). I personally spent last night sleeping at the hospital wired up to within an inch of my life for a sleep study to see if I’ve [...]
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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By Lisa | February 27, 2008
Beret out of vintage (1980’s) alpaca…done!
Pattern? Basic Tam from One Skein Wonders
Needles? 4.5 mm Options DPNs
Yarn? Mousarde (I keep calling it “moutarde” which is French for mustard)
It was minus (insert ridiculously cold sounding number here) degrees this morning and this hat was a godsend. I look really dumb in most hats – anyone remember [...]
First of all (and before I forget) – thanks to everyone for the great podcast suggestions. I also found a few from the CBC (especially Comedy Central!) to keep me amused.
Now…
Jeanne tagged me with a meme – I have to come up with 7 random things about me (and by the way…I’m tagging Leanne [...]
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The most fantabulous Elizabeth from Sydney NS has proven herself a terrific swap partner on her first foray into a knitter’s swap. Elizabeth and I were hooked up through the Knitter’s Coffee Swap.
Want proof of Elizabeth’s goodness? For one thing, she proved that in Nova Scotia, the coffee rocks…
As a point of information – the [...]
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Well…blogiversary month is drawing to a close. Last week’s winner is the sadly blogless Lo Sing who lives here in Ottawa and must have “blog begginers” luck because she just found my blog and entered and won!
Final draw is this week and up for grabs are these two skeins of handspun. It is [...]
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Sienna seemed a bit rough still but a bit more alert when I got home from work yesterday. She still wasn’t eating or drinking and when I brought her downstairs she couldn’t seem to control that back leg on slippery flooring (now I know why she was staying upstairs where the carpeting was).
Madeline and [...]
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In the Fall of 1993 I managed to convince my now-ex husband that we needed another cat because our first cat had clearly decided that he was the favoured owner. I wanted MY cat, the cat that would sit on my lap and play with ME.
So after K’s first tentative yes, I called the [...]
Today is it! I’ve been blogging for a year and it seems like a good time to reflect on the whole experience. So given my penchant for point form synopses…here are my blog thoughts in no particular order… (by the way, if you want to skip the stream of consciousness and go straight to the [...]
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1. Roving porn – absolutely gorgeous wool-silk blend from Fleece Artist.
2. I have a new obsession – teddy bears. Specifically, teddy bears from Sandra Polley’s The Knitted Teddy Bear. I’ve looked everywhere for this book – and then FINALLY checked my library (love you library!). I can’t recommend this book enough. The best part [...]