tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49569260748838104142012-01-04T11:51:35.376-08:00knits * art * whatevahJustAprilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16743298029997051043noreply@blogger.comBlogger2381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956926074883810414.post-25618556585064748612012-01-04T11:32:00.000-08:002012-01-04T11:51:35.394-08:00

One Tweed scarf twice my height which makes it just about 11 feet long Several dish clothsA chart for my next two projectsAnd the start of one of the two from the chart that is sadly no moreI've started and restarted and ripped and tinkedThis is the way of the lace with meI'm making a red one for me for practiceThat way I can get it right andmake all my mistakes using yarn much more sturdy than

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I have been knitting - believe it or not. I am knitting dish cloths for some reason. Lots and lots of dishcloths. I will take pictures, but I have to knit a few more first! (clearly... I'm obsessed) So don't go completely away, I'll post very soon =))Until then - something to look at:PUPPIES!this is Pounce a very sweet boyThis is Momma Jacque playing with Fifi - the only girlAdorable little

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I think I must admit somethings to myself. I must admit:I do not seem to knit in the SummerNor do I blog much in the Summer (or much at all anymore)I have issues with procrastinationMy motivation to exercise is about nillMy morning person days may be behind me (WAY behind)I love random stripe generatorsI need to make more socks because I seriously dislike all the ones from the storeI'm hungryI do

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It's been almost two months since I posted anything in here, or knitted anything, or had anything interesting to say. Well... that's not entirely true, I've had interesting things to say, just not anything I'd want to post on the internet. Eventually, perhaps, but we'll have to wait and see about that one.The heat has been a killer this year, as you all know. I've been thinking I might have to

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YippeeeeeeI've completed my first real FO in a long long time. This pattern was really fun, and I enjoyed the mystery of not knowing for sure what it was going to look like. It turned out the be the perfect size for my daughter, and she loves it. Now, hopefully, she won't be stealing my stole (haha) every time she gets cold at the meetings or assemblies. yaaaayMystery Shawl KAL at Wendy Knitsthe

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First things first, check out Sandra Singhs contest giveaway. A very pretty yarn hangs in the balance. =)And here is my Wendy Knits Mystery KAL Shawlette progress.This is what it looked like after the first repeat of Chart CI am currently on row 7 of 24 of the second repeat of Chart C with one more repeat to go. Each one is shorter, though, so it's cool. I love how easy you get each line

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I'm done with the second chart! YaaaaaayI really like this pattern. Not too difficult, not too easy. My daughter is going to really enjoy wearing this.

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It's a miracle! I'm knitting AND posting! I'm about to start chart two of the Mystery KAL Shawlette . I have had some little bits of difficulties when the YO are immediately following a stitch marker, and they scootch over enough to make it seem they belong on the other side. For the most part, though, I've been able to deal ok. I should have probably mentioned it before, but I only knew about

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Do you ever think, "I don't really like this yarn." Then try to knit with it? One would think that by now a person would know not to knit with yarn that repels them. Especially if said yarn has an annoying lack of slippiness (slippyness?) it doesn't slip past itself easily, it grabs it's neighbor fibers and tangles in an instant. Then, it has the nerve to refuse to untangle. Yet, with all these

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So... ummm..... Nothing posted here since January. Well. Blast.I did the color work hat, and it came out very wonky, so I guess I got discouraged. The bottom of the hat is too floppy and the color work is very tight, not a bit of stretch near the thing. It's kicking around here somewhere. It was a learning experience though. At least I know now to go up a needle size when I start the color work.

JustAprilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16743298029997051043noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956926074883810414.post-10797440512360933152011-01-18T07:38:00.000-08:002011-01-18T12:36:36.743-08:00

you know how I feel.I meant these pictures to be in reverse sequence, rather than how they appear. Knitting first, personal stuff last. However, since blogger refuses to do their uploads in a way that takes less deliberate thought, we will just go with the flow today, because my head hurts.This is an orchid. I bought it for myself at a grocery store. They are a visual reminder of a sort of

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My new interchangeable needle set is on it's way, along with THIS beautiful kit. I have to say, it's going to be nice to actually use the yarn that the pattern calls for, and also to follow a pattern that someone else has made up. I have yet to start my 3 projects that are mostly just rolling around in my head and making a nuisance of themselves. (among many many more annoying and troubling

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Options Interchangeable Harmony Wood Circular Knitting Needle Set from KnitPicks.com - Colorful birch needles kit with case & cablesTime for me to buckle down and get this set of needles. Time for lots of things to change.Time to get to working on all these projects I have swimming around in my brain.Time

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My son decided he wanted snakes in his hat, so I searched Ravely for spirals and this is the chart I'll be basing the color work on. And here's my variation on it. All the kids think it's "AWESOME" =) At least I can still impress them, wonder how long that will last? hahahaNot the greatest picture ever, but it IS past 1am, so I had to use the flash. The color that looks reddish orange is

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Paging through books and books of Fair Isle charts can get to be somewhat overstimulating. (for me anyway - it's like shopping, too much input) Everything is either too girly or too... I don't know, I think I don't have the right books. Which means, as usual, I'll just make something up with my own colors and graph paper. I'm sure it won't be anything ground breaking or original, I doubt there is

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For some weird reason, I didn't remember that I posted my finished socks. WHA? I guess I didn't really feel they were finished until I weaved in all the ends. I must be growing up as a knitter. I vaguely recall mentioning that I didn't weave in the ends because my tiny crochet hook has gone missing. I finally got to the store and purchased a package of them. (naturally, I blindly picked up a

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I finally broke down and grabbed some random yarn and finished the socks. However, I seem to have misplaced my tiny crochet hook, so the dozens of ends to weaved in are waiting.The fit is very nice on these, I seem to have issues with getting that right for some reason, but these are perfect. With my shoes on they'll look remarkably like the last pair, which was the basic idea. The last pair

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... if the endorphins associated with getting new yarn in the mail clouds a person's perception to the point where they think a nice forrest green can by any stretch of the imagination coordinate with a very dark teal?The brown you see there, that's really the green - my poor mac's webcam doesn't do so great with the colors - but at least you can see it doesn't clash.Here... is the offending teal

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I fully planned to choose the 4th option from the bulleted list last post way back on the 3rd of November:Jump right in and knit another pair of socks with new yarnGather up all my left over sock yarn bits and make a pair of motley socksForget socks for a time and start on the practice shawl/stole thing with the Jagger SpunStart a pair of socks AND start the shawl/stole thing so that I can have

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The next time I consider modifying how closely I follow a pattern - think again, self! It seems that my recent sock project is just a bit too small - the toe to heel length is just the tiniest bit too short. So I shall be giving these socks to my sister - the one with slightly smaller feet than me. This is the second time I have accidentally made a pair of socks for her =) It's fine, she deserves

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Finished with time to spare, even! I finished them last night, and have been wearing them since. As you see, they are perfect to go with denim. ME likey =)AND, my cone of Jagger Spun Lilac Silk/Wool is here!Isn't it marvelous? It's going to make a LOT of lace.Next time sky pics!

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Here's where I am on my Socktoberfest socks - I'm nearing the place where I usually cast off. I just don't care much for socks that go up much past my ankles. Knitting them has really kept me much more calm than I would be otherwise. In fact, I went to get some blood work done today, and my blood pressure was pretty low and the little viles took their time filling up. I'm glad something is

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Stupid insurance companies! They have flat out denied my child what would work best for him. Now, I have to go back to the pharmacy, pick up the first prescription, take it BACK to the doctor and trade it for the lesser medicine's prescription and then take that back to the pharmacy. ~slaps forehead~It's a darn good thing for everyone involved that I'm knitting (and praying) up a storm here -

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On Friday, my sock progress was scarcely any further than my last post. At this point it was time to start the gusset increases. I'm not sure exactly what I was doing while I wasn't knitting, but the socks hadn't grown much. Fortunately for me, my oldest had a doctor's appointment (still sorting through the issues I've mentioned) so I had knitting time there. Another good thing on Friday, was my

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I really have to rip up that carpet!The socks are truckin' along nicely. It may even be possible to finish them this month. The non-matchy matchiness doesn't bother me. In fact, one of the yarn cakes is wound backwards from the other, which makes for interesting color play between them. The sharpened needles are working very well, but I may have gone a little too sharp, last night after knitting

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So... here we are, October 13th, nearly half of the month gone and I've just barely started. I busted out the old bamboo dpns and the new Knitpicks Harmony circs and started my cast-on as follows:When I started to knit off the dpns, I realized that the tips of my new needles were super blunt. In fact, they are flat on the end, and I can't knit with flat tipped needles. So, after rummaging around

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My daughter borrowed my stole the other night because she was cold. So I got to thinking, I ought to make her one of her own. Not a bad idea over all. The only problem? I had the worst migraine of the last several years yesterday, and it's not quite all gone even today. Why oh WHY did I think I could wrap my half a head around a lace chart? HUH? Why? Why why why? I couldn't even get through the

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I can't beLIEVE it's already October again! Thank goodness for blogland, or I would have gone through the whole month twiddling my thumbs and not knitting any socks. I was actually thinking of making my girl a little shawl, and I am in the planning stages of that, but FIRST! I must cast on some socks. Plain old stockinette? Maybe some color work? I dunno, but I better get to knittin'!Issues are

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As you can see, my tension is very iffy. And yet, I'm still smiling like the cat that ate the canary.Why do you think that is? Well, for my first Continental purling adventure, I don't care so much about the tension. Plus, it's a beautiful day, and I've made it through one a of the most terrifying weeks of my life. I can't go into detail,but suffice it to say, when one of your kids seems to be

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Bloglines is shutting down - the "export links" didn't work so my butt is now numb for sitting here transferring all my links to Google reader. Must pace and get my booty circulation back.peace out

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Fair Isle has always been one of those knitting adventures that draws me in heart and soul. Who knows why, maybe it's that faint call of Scotland in my blood that draws me back to a small part of my heritage. Some things and places just pull at a person. Once I started knitting, it pulled at me. Certain artwork and photography are the same. Some countries and cultures tug at me to come back to

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It must be in the air, knitting. My oldest, 11yr old boy, says, "I want to knit." My youngest, soon to be 7yr old boy says, "ME TOO!" Then my middle child, 9yr old girl says, "Where's MY knitting?" since she has a project in progress. So I quickly teach the oldest one to cast on, and move on to the youngest. Whilst still teaching the youngest, my middle child helps the oldest with the next step,

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It has been a long long time since I picked up the needles and did anything. Yesterday was the day, my long dry spell came to an end. I picked up some very splitty off- white cotton and made a little scarf/sash thing. The reason I wanted it, was because I have a few of those 2 layer wrap skirts you can wear about 100 ways, and I wanted to make it look like an empire waist type thing. Plus, you

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In case any of you not reading this blog think, perhaps I may have been lolloping around all Summer, here is a bit of what I've been doing. There are three others that haven't been photographed, hanging in the office where I work.I've been working on painting lilies the most. Just popped into my head one day and I wondered if I could do it.This one, however, is from a photo I spied yesterday at

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Not sure why that song just popped into my head, but there it is. My last post, June the 24th, weird, I didn't even realize I posted that day. Just happened to be the day I turned 41. I don't pay much attention to birthdays or any of that stuff, I just think it's weird I accidently posted my last rant that day.Anyway, since then, lots of stuff has been rolling around in my mind. I had lunch with

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Don't know why. Don't know what I want to do instead. Don't know what I AM doing instead. Don't know what I want to knit. It's more like, I know what I don't want to knit, and that is everything I've planned to knit. I want something easy, different and practical. It's hot, really hot, OVEN like, outside. I've had a migraine off and on for 7 days now. Even so, I've been in a good mood (well

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How sad is it that it has been SO long that I've posted anything here that I actually forgot my password. Honestly, I don't even remember changing it in the first place. I must have changed it in my sleep or something, because I have NO clue what I changed it to. SAD SAD SAD At any rate. I haven't done much knitting since I churned out 5 of those headbands in a week. Not sure why, but I really

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Oddly, I have knitting to share, finished knitting to boot. Inspired by Amy again, I embarked on a headband. It is a bit fiddly and quite imperfect, the lattice goes this way and that way, and I even accidentally added and extra row of "YO K2tog" in roughly the middle of the headband,so it almost has the look of something intentional.It fits the daughter nicely, and I'm going to embark on a

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my sweet key-chain fix it on the godouble sided crochet hook thingy =) size 3, 47 inch harmony circularssize 0, 40 inch harmony BROKEN circ - lolthe replacement for the broken onesize 0, 40 inch harmony circular needlesthe swift that has been windingdozens of yarn cakes the ball winder - or cake winder, whateverthe beginning of the yarn for my cardinow to see if my reverse engineering skills

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I have now joined the land of the knitters who have swifts and ball winders. It's a very happy land. I'll have pictures in the next few days, once I get the laundry off my normal photo taking couch. I've ordered my red lace-weight AND I also ordered the organic cotton to start my replacement, reverse engineered wubbie cardigan.Guess what I ordered today? (besides the yarn) Well, it has nothing to

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Thanks to Chris at Drop Stitch Knitter I'm getting a swift! I so totally forgot that she and her husband have an Etsy shop, Scott's Mountain Crafts, with all sorts of wonderful goodies. I'm SO glad she reminded me in the comments about their very well priced hand made OAK swifts. hehehehehe Now once Monday gets here I can order my red lace weight and start planning what I'm gonna do, namely

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SO... I've been thinking. (instead of knitting, thinking) The thing is, the lace scarf I've started is definitely too wide. I've lost the desire to knit it in it's current width, since I know it won't be long enough. This leads me to the sad reality that I will be ripping it all out and starting over.To make myself feel better I did some online retail therapy via Knit Picks. I'm getting a ball

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At the risk of being annually repetitive, I must share my tree's blossoms. They seem to have really outdone themselves this year. Even the tiny one in my back yard, which receives daily (ahem) "attention" from my dog, is blooming like a pro. Hopefully all the pictures will distract all of you from the obvious and serious lack of knitting going on. My children and I seem to be playing volleyball

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Well, I didn't knit much on my little jaunt. When I did knit, I made a mistake, and since I hadn't moved up my life line to the half of the repeat, I had to rip back to the beginning of it. So my progress is about where it was, if not less. **cue the DOH!** Which means it is NOT ready for tonight as I hoped, but that's ok. I have another scarf that matches what I plan to wear. My trip was really

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... to say, "Hi."I'm mid way or so into repeat 5 of the chart, I'm starting to think this will be a very short scarf, indeed - shouldn't have made it quite so wide - but that being said, there's NO way I'll be ripping it back. I'll just block it very severely on the horizontal plane.It's good practice, at any rate, I plan to make something rather larger on the lines of scarf/stole lace thing for

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AH, errata, thou dost vex me so! In hindsight, it should have been obvious, right? I mean look at it! HELLO! It's just that any time I start any lace pattern, I'm all muddly at first which means I don't comprehend the chart as a whole and I don't look ahead in the chart as I ought to. I always have a few false starts and do-overs. You'd think that by now, I would realize that I should always

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Now that I've completed two projects, long languishing on the needles, I feel the need to knit something more challenging. So, I am taking two lace charts and putting them together to make a little lace scarf. I have some of the lavender lace yarn that I used on the Swallow Tail Shawl and it's been in my little yarn box whispering at me for a long time, "Use me up, I'm ever so lovely."eta:

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Actually, I didn't officially join the Olympics - but I have managed to unofficially get gold medals on both my languishing WIPs.Self patterning yarn is the best. The only problem I had with this yarn is that once you drop a stitch, the yarn gets excessively splitty. Much of the knitting I did on these was in low light, which doesn't help.As for my finished sweater, it turns out I don't have the

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but I have not the time to do so. ***scream*** Seriously!!!? I'm ok, just annoyed at something stupid. Actually like 8 stupid things, but that's a venting that will have to wait.I CAN report that I have finished the sweater and taken a very unflattering picture of myself in it, and hopefully it's the picture and not me - lol It's very warm and I love it and it's a GOLD medal for finishing it

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You guys are probably right, it's just those Winter knitter no sun yarn splittin blues. Most of the snow is gone, we still have patches and piles and the humiliated remains of snow men hither and thither. I've been watching the Olympics quite a bit and it's pretty exciting with all the speed and snow and crashes and medals and stuff =) At the moment I'm watching curling and listening to the

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I am watching the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Vancouver and it's a very moving experience. I have been in that place where a person just needs to cry, anyway, and it helps to have something that provokes the tears, rather than trying to get up that momentum on my own. Hopefully joining the Knitting Olympics will help me get out of my - well I was calling a knitting slump, but it has

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This is hardly any sooner than the last post, but at least this time I have a decent reason *read excuse* =) About 8 weeks ago I got a pretty bad migraine that never went away completely, and it was only last week that it finally went away. Needless to say, it was not easy to focus on much more than the every day stuff to get through it. Fortunately I have a super good friend with an array of

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I have not been spending my time wisely, and it shows. My knitting is sitting next to me languishing away instead of wrapping itself around me to keep me warm during the first real Winter we have had in Texas for 20 years or so. Hopefully, when I put down my computer (the real cause of all my wasted knitting time) I'll take said knitting, a flattering sweater to be, if I'm not punished for taking

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Ok, there's no monkey, but monkeys always cheer me up. It's been a series of tiring weekends, though.1st weekend I drove 3 hours North East to move my brother to a new town, job and situation. It's a good move for him and I'm happy for him. Of course the kiddos were sad and they cried for 30 minutes on the way home. On that Saturday, I learned that one of my favorite people was in the hospital

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It's been a whole month since I posted anything, mainly because nothing has really been going on. I've been reading lots. I decided to read the collective works of the Brontë sisters. I think the only book I don't have yet (not sure) is the book of poetry that they collaborated to write under their pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Well, they used those names for all their books. So far I

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So, I didn't get the sweater finished in time for my trip to Minnesota, but that's ok since I didn't have room for much in my carry on. My youngest sister and I had a great time, it's our first trip together! It was a beautiful little adventure, the leaves were perfect shades of Autumn. I didn't get many pictures, because my camera was on the fritz. Bad timing, right? Plus we were on the go most

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OH, it's wonderfully chilly today. It's been an actual Autumn here for the first time in many a year. We actually had a cool day on the first day of Fall, and it's turned down right windy and rainy and cold. This means I actually feel like knitting for real. I think I'll break out my sweater and finish it so I'll have something warm and new to wear when I go to Minnesota next week. (that is if

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Why is that, do you think? You can explain and explain one point, repeatedly, from every angle you can think of, as gently and dipomatically as you can, but it doesn't matter. They say they understand, but in a few days or weeks there they are, asking you the same question that you have tearfully, tediously, tormentedly and totally layed out before them in every manner thinkable.How does that

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I haven't abandoned blogging. I'm doing well, it's just the beginning of the school year and we are all adjusting to a new schedule. I'm doing an absurd amount of cleaning and absolutely no knitting. My job is awesome, not because of how many people I see, but because of the change and relief that can be affected with Massage Therapy. I love it. =)I have been taking pictures, growing lots of okra

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My brother finished the baby blanket yesterday, washed and laid it out to dry. Here is the finished product.His friends as it turned out, kept him too busy to finish it when he went to visit them. He did get to show it to them. He laid it out on their carpet when she was out of the room, and when she came back in, she started squealing =) perfect reaction! Bask ye in it's awesomeness =) my bro

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... to myself. Once upon a time, there was a blog that was popular. Lots of people read it and lots of people commented. Then the writer of that blog started having issues with lots of stuff and the blog sorta went by the wayside, got deleted, started over, transferred to another blog address, was nearly abandoned and well, the list carries on for sometime. It thus became time for the blog writer

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As I am knitting this:I notice this:Time to get the yarn to remake this sweater Man I hope I can make it rock like the old one does

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Minnesotan AcquisitionsMalbrigo for my Brother - and yes he totally flippedit was perfectsigh

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We have had a nice leisurely time here in Minnesota and it's been wonderful. Seeing my cousin and her family along with her sweet baby boy. We had a nice "Girl's Day" yesterday, left all the kids with the guys and ran around doing errands and stuff. I finished my second dishcloth and was out of yarn (because of all things, that's what I forgot to pack) so I just HAD to go yarn shopping =) I got 3

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Garter stitch and dishcloth cotton have rescued me from my knitting slump. and the coffee is goodI think I'll be knitting lots of dishcloths for a while, it's about all I can focus on these days. Focus, something I don't have at the moment because I was up WAY too late last night, which is bad because:We are headed off on vacation this weekend and I have yet to pack a single thing. YAWN. Maybe if

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Been working super hard this week, in spite of a migraine that started Saturday and didn't give up till Wednesday. Of course I have to thank my Excedrine for the ability to function. I guess what I'm really saying is that I don't have much interesting blog fodder. The only exception to that is that I may get to be co-workers with one of my fav classmates, which I may or may not have set up =)

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Friday, the 24th of July, was my graduation ceremony. It was really pretty fun to see most of my classmates again. The ceremony was pretty long, since all the classes that finished between May and July graduated that night. There were about 7 different programs with several classes each. Professional Massage Therapy went first, since we had the most (I guess) and we were put in line

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Guess what? The husband was acting oddly as he was coming in this evening and as I looked around the corner he was holding a surprise for me.I can barely even believe it myself, but I am the giddy new owner of a MacBookPro! DUDES! Do you have any idea how darn long I've been wanting a Mac? It's been nearly 20 years. That's a long long long time to wait. (well, maybe just two longs - so long long

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My new phone doesn't take sharp pics very well. I finally figured out how to email the pic to myself - thanks to LizzyK8 for the suggestion

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This thing is too cool. I only wish I could get the pictures off my phone to show you the progress as of Thursday. Hopefully, my bro will email the finished pic to me before too long. He's up visiting the friends that the blanket is for, so I won't see the finished project in person. He is finishing it probably as I type. Here's how it looked on Monday.The FrontIn all it's awesomenessIf this was

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I originally posted this to my Coffee Crazy blog - hit the wrong button. That's what I get for blogging in my sleep! - Anyway, here it is:Where in the world have I been?Sometimes time just gets away from me. I was a bit sickly for a couple of weeks, then one of my friends came to visit, then we went to visit her in return along with everyone else in that area. So I guess it's been busy around

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Probably everyone that reads this blog also reads Claudia's Blog but just in case a few extra people wander over there b/c of this post... I figured I'd mention her and her MS Ride Fundraiser. She's only got a few days left before she rides and she's only got 38% of her goal and it would be so awesome if she could retain her #1 status of last year.You see last year, knitters (and regular people)

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The baby doves have hatched. Apparently they've been hatched for awhile and somehow I just didn't notice. So I decided, I'd try to get a couple of good pictures.As soon as the mom saw me coming, she flew down to the ground and did the "come and get me and leave my babies alone see I'm hurt and can't fly" dance. That really should have been my cue to think to myself, "Self, leave the babies alone,

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I would say "Fast Lane" but that would be exaggerating. However, between work and laundry and back and forth to baby sitters and sick kids, it's not been easy to keep up with blogging. I have had plenty of knitting and reading time, but that's been at WORK, where it's been so slow lately. I don't know if my first week was a fluke or what, but it went from being crazy busy to worse than slow. Slow

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Plano to be exact and it was such a great time. You know how you feel giddy and excited before an event and giddy and excited during an event? Well, this is one of the only times I think I felt even more giddy and excited after as well. It was the perfect little outing for Heidi and me. We started out as early as we could to avoid rush hour traffic all along the way. We sort of succeeded in that.

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I mentioned yesterday that I have lizard news. This news is not about Lizzy, our Texas Spiny Lizard. Who has recently found she likes to be upside down hanging from the ceiling of her terrarium.In fact, it is about the two new lizards we have. About 2 months ago, the husband came home with another Mediterranean gecko. We put her in with Lizzy and they seemed to ignore each other and

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Is it possible that we first saw the possibilities of the electronic journal from Captain Kirk? "Captain's log stardate 2715.1 ....." I was thinking last night, as I tried, unsuccessfully, to sleep off the migraine from yesterday after 3 Excedrine Migraine tablets. Pro - headache sorta under control, con - so much caffeine! So there I was, lying in the dark, blogging away in my mind. It would

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Sorry I haven't posted to update everyone. It's been busy busy busy. I got HIRED! Yaay! I really like the place I'm working. Check this out... This particular chiro got into the business because his wife suffered chronic migraines and he wanted to be able to help her. To date, she hasn't had a migraine in twenty years! When I heard that, I nearly started crying from just the prospect of being any

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So much to talk about, so many pictures I want to share! Where to start?Well, last Friday was a sick day for poor DDthe8yr old. So what do you do when you feel yucky and get bored? Why KNIT of course!Those of you who have been with me a while, may remember back in the day when I started to teach the two oldest how to knit. After that, they sort of lost interest, and I haven't been in such a great

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I've been promising some knitting content, and that I shall deliver.First, the FO (finished object - for those non-knitter readers)I finally got the knee brace things finished. Yaay! Even though the person I made them for is now preggers with twins and not much allowed to exercise.... she'll have them when she needs them. Chasing twins around is exercise, right?They are made with the most squishy

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The interview went very well, not sure I want it, but glad to be considered. I did a 30min massage for part of the interview and she was very impressed with that. Apparently there aren't many of my peers that can do deep tissue and keep it up for an extended amount of time. That's pretty much ALL I do, I don't really know what to do with a person who just wants light pressure. When I feel a

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My brother called me a few evenings agoand said, "Have you seen the sky? Get your cameraand go quickly!" So I did.West view? WowEvery minute, it got more dramatic.These beams were in the East.If you looked South, you saw thisIs it just me, or does this look like a pretty paintingof a woman from behind, and a man's head andtorso from the front?As the light began to fade, the shadows grew largerThe

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Which Fringe Character Are You?More on Fringe. Created by BuddyTVHave any of you seen this show? It's way out there on the ...well the Fringe. Science Fiction/Crime DramaI really like it, because some of the conceptsaren't as far out there as one might think.bomp bomp BOMlol - it's a really cool showWhat have I been doing now that I'm out of school? Well I had two pretty much sleepless nights,

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You are Elizabeth Bennet of Pride & Prejudice! You are intelligent, witty, and tremendously attractive. You have a good head on your shoulders, and oftentimes find yourself the lone beacon of reason in a sea of ridiculousness. You take great pleasure in many things. You are proficient in nearly all of them, though you will never own it. Lest you seem too perfect, you have a tendency toward

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The finish line is in sight, I have only 7 intern hours left to do. I may have at least 4 people who want to be clients even after I'm done with internship - I probably already blogged that, but it still surprises me. That means I have to find somewhere to practice fairly soon, so they keep me and don't find someone else. My last day will probably be May 4th but the grad ceremony won't be until

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I can hardly believe it, but I'm nearly finished with school! I mean, I knew it was coming up, but to be just a couple weeks away from the last day is pretty wild. I have 31 of 52 hours of internship done. I've had 3 repeat clients who really like me, and four who have mentioned they may follow me to wherever I end up practicing. Not too bad for an intern =) Also, somehow I managed to maintain

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What a RELIEF! The test is over and I made 817 out of 900! 630 is the lowest passing grade... so I'm really excited to get in the 800's =))Of course, I'd be happy with just passing the test, period, but I was secretly hoping to get 800+, just a little.So... in about 3 or 4 weeks, all my stuff will be sent off to the licensing board and I'll wait for them to send me my license! squeeeeeeee!I've

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I take my test on Saturday at 12:00pm. I'm so excited and nervous! eeeeek So.... I can use some positive vibes and such if you can spare a few =)I'll post my pass/fail results when I get home.Internship is going SO well, I really enjoy what I'm doing, and feel ever more confident that it's a very good career choice. I have 20 hours of 52 done so far in the clinic - That's in 1 1/2 weeks, so I'm a

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"Don't say 'Blast and wretch', OH BLAST AND WRETCH!" -- Amy, Little WomenIt may not be a perfectly accurate quote, but when I think about it, it always makes me laugh. I needed something to laugh at when I realized that my started over project had major hiccups in two of the four raglan increases. They are at least one stitch off, and I don't know why I didn't see it until today. Probably because

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Remember I said we had a new pet? Here she is:We know she's a girl b/c the males usually have blue streaks on their bellies, and the females have that nice mauve color down their sides and the pretty stripy thing going down their legs. (Thank you Internet)She's a pretty girl, for a Texas Spiny Lizard, or Fence Lizard, or Back Yard Lizard. My daughter found her out in the freezing cold one day in

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We almost had the March/Lion weather, it was down to freezing over the weekend, but it's nice and pretty today. Of course, with one day left, things can always change. btw - I did good on my two big finals 90 and 88 and my average for the whole class is 91! whew! Am I glad this mod is over, it really kicked my caboose - I know it doesn't look that way from those grades, but my quiz average was 74

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Spring has sprung and been springing for several weeks around here. There have been lots of blossoms and it looks like the bees are making a comeback. We hardly saw any last year, but they were pollinating the holly bushes again this year and it was nice to see so many honey bees. Have I mentioned that I'd like to keep bees someday? I don't think I have enough room here, but it's fun to think

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No matter what is going on, school, grades dropping, should be studying and getting ready for the MBLEX, sometimes you just gotta throw it all to the side and knit something. I went back to my LYS that is selling everything at now 40% off (waiting for the 50 and 60%) and got more of the same type of yarn and started a simple, knit by the seat of my pants project. (my favorite, no rules)I love the

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We interrupt this regularly scheduled week of intense study and finals for a Yarn Flash!But first I want to thank all of you for your words of support and encouragement from my last post. Every time I read those comments I start to cry again =) you guys are just the best and I really appreciate all of you. Step by step by baby step.NOW... back to the yarn flash. Good news and bad news. Bad news

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Don't you just hate it when you hit those blogging dry spells? Yeah, me too. I think about blogging and then just say - hmmm.... what to say? The same stuff from last time. Still need to take some pictures, still doing good in school - except for one Kinesiology quiz that I totally tanked because my brain was too taken up with thinking about life changing decisions that I completely forgot to

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I guess it's been MUCH longer than I thought, which means I didn't take pictures of one of my other FO's. It's just another pair of wrist warmers, but it's something at least. I have at least one more pair "ordered" as requested by my youngest, (not to be left out) and one of my daughter's classmates has demanded a pair just like hers. Not sure she'll be getting those with that little attitude

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Well, my new camera came with it's own cable, I just didn't take it out of the box. So my complaints were for naught. (except I still think it's stupid to have so many different shapes for USB plugs) That aside, I finally have pictures!I discovered that the large drink cups from Chicken Express (that I like to get Dublin Dr. Pepper in) make really good hat drying apparatus things. (apparati?) I

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Well, bummer of all bummers, my computer seems to be giving me fits and won't let me access the pictures on the little SD card, and since there are hundreds of different shapes of USB cable ends, I can't do that either. WHY are there so many different little plug ins for cables that do exactly the same thing? I know the answer is so that you have to buy a different cable for every little thing

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Guess what? I finally got a new camera. Shock of all shockers. I'm in such a strange situation. Anyway, I don't have proof as of yet - picture wise, well I do, I just didn't upload them yet and I want my first new camera pictures that y'all see to be KNITTING.Just wanted to give all of you something to read here in the meantime. There has been some serious drama at school. (ah transitions, don't

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Holy blog abandonment Bat Man! I haven't posted since November 21st? FOR shame. I have loads of excuses of course, but why bother about the past?I got nice grades on all my finals, upper 90's for all the grades at the end of the mod, so ME HAPPY. I think I still have the 4.0 (heheheheheee) How pissed am I going to be if I lose that? lol (repeat after me - chill out chill out chill out)We

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