Category Archives: kids

Definitely not a year in pictures

How about a few summer photos?  Just to show that the kids have grown like weeds…and, gasp, some actual real pictures of me.  This is a blog first for me…
 
We spent Alex’s 10th birthday in July at Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls and had a great time with WannaBaa – her kids and mine.  It [...]

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Devil in a blue dress

Not an actual post (coming soon I swear!) but had to share this awesome picture of WannaBaa’s little miss Ava in her Miss Muffett. Pattern was on Magknits and now available on Ravelry…

The yarn is Cascade 220 superwash that I kettle dyed to get a colour I liked…

Quick update on me:

French language training [...]

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Raw fleece…Thanksgiving dinner wild kingdom…and, ooh…shiny!

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 [...]

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Misbehaving…camera (tilt head 90 degrees)

Hey all – long time no write! Summer sucked me in and spit me back out again – I can’t believe September is already here – packing lunches and homework again. Neither of these two activities rates high on my list of favourties due to the amount of knitting time lost during a [...]

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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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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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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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Blog makeover, proud mother moment, more fibre confessions

You know how one day you walk into your house and suddenly realize that the fact that your couch has been against the same wall for YEARS is irritating as hell? Or suddenly your books have to be re-organized – maybe by colour this time instead of height? (except fibre books – they still belong [...]

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I fell off my yarn diet…

I was SO good for 3 whole months!!! Seriously good. Didn’t even look at other yarn good. But then..I couldn’t help myself. It was no big deal really. One lousy skein. The trollop screamed at me from afar (after I routed through the basket for a colour I liked and then stepped back to admire [...]

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My new cable needle

First of all…a little instructional bit for the non-knitting readers who read this blog…all four of them. The rest of you may skip down below the line for the actual adventure.
Righto – the bent needle on the right is a cable needle. The obsessive types who prefer to make their own sweaters instead of doing [...]

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