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I won!!

OK, it is pretty clear I did not win the community choice vote for the Stevie Nicks shawl contest. First and second place both doubled my votes, but third isn’t bad. However, the title of this post is not a lie. You see, I won something even better then $500 (though that sure would have been nice after having to buy a new washer last week). When the contest was announced, I had quite a few people bring it to … Read more

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The Seventh Birthday Retro Party (and some other stuff)

The girls turned 7 on Sunday. I have some snaps to share with you to show our festivities. Plus a little bit of yarnie stuff at the end of the post. 🙂 I think this was the day before their birthday. Doug was so proud of them! For their birthday breakfast, banana pancakes with real maple syrup and fresh strawberries. Yummy!! Here is Birthday Girl Kyla ready to party! And Birthday Girl Vada is all ready as well! Like I … Read more

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Lion Brand Studio Trip and Other Fun Times!

It’s odd, I’ve lived here, in northern New Jersey just outside of the Lincoln Tunnel, for about eight years; yet until Sunday I have never taken public transit into the City. That’s not to say I haven’t gone into Manhattan, I’ve just always driven in. Before I lived here I lived in Queens, and I took the train of the subway into the City all the time. Yet for some reason, even though it’s quicker to take public transit into the City from here and then it was where I lived in Queens, I just never really went.

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Pretties in the works

One of the hardest things about selling designs is having to sit on things. Any design that I may want to sell to a yarn company, magazine, or some other website/company/what~have~you, I have to keep quite. No one will buy it if I have posted photos of it, and once I sell it, I can’t share until it is published. Obviously I can’t share the pattern at that point, but I can share where you can get the pattern, and … Read more

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Daisy chaos and camera news

Last night was our first Daisy meeting of the year. Upon turning in our room request schedule for the meetings at the school, we discovered that the policies had changed and we needed 40 days notice to request a room. Oops, we were a little late for the first meeting. We managed to get the cafeteria for all our other meetings, but we could not use the school at all for the first. So, I volunteered my house; after all, … Read more

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Rita

Just minutes ago, I was uploading and tagging photos to share with you. Some of my yarnie works in progress, and a few other goodies. I popped over to Facebook for a moment to check a message, and saw a status update that changed my plans. The crafty post will go up tomorrow. When I was pregnant with the twins, over 6 years ago, I joined a brand new site for moms, CafeMom. It was my first social media site … Read more

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Crochet Faster!

My mother is here visiting! Those of you who have been reading my blog for a while may remember that my mother works for DoDEA (Department of Defense Education Activity); basically, she teaches the children of enlisted personel and other personel on military bases around the world. Currently, she is stationed in Germany. This means my parents only make it back to the States over the summer, and I only get to see them for a short amount of that … Read more

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Bouncy, Jumpy, Crazy fun!

I’ve been getting so much done! It is nice to be more streamlined. Yet there is still so much to do. A lot of what I have done over the past week has been behind the scenes stuff. I still have to go through a lot of my old posts from before I made the move over to Wordpress, add in the tech stuff, back up the photos, and fix some links. It’s mind~numbing~ly dull, but it should help get … Read more

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Attack of the Girl Scout Cookies

Oh, the dangers of being a Daisy leader! Last weekend our GS Cookie troop order came in, and my house was over run! One of the other leaders, two other moms, and I, loaded up our vehicles and brought all the cases over to my house. As you can see, the dining table was quickly stacked high with cases of cookies ~ 12 boxes per case. Even the coffee table was fair game! The piano bench became the spot to … Read more

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Company! Fun with the littles

We had quite a fun time yesterday! Vada’s “best” friend (she actually has 3 or 4 of them,) Izabel, was over. Iz abel’s mom had to go into work at the movie theatre from 12 to 4. So she asked if we could watch Izabel for that time. She also said we could all go over to the theatre and watch “Escape from Planet Earth” for some of the time. The movie was set to get out at the same … Read more

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