well, I do declare

The tacky Versailles fan was pulled out today, the heat and humidity had returned so oppressively. To further illustrate my point, the Versailles fan was purchased (funnily enough) at Versailles on a very hot, very un-A/C’d, very French day. It’s gilded plastic and printed fabric of Romantic-style ladies, trimmed with gold lace. [...]

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on confidence

This

(now named Chartres, which will make sense once the sock is completed)
has been sidelined by this

(the first adult ShiBui Spock in “peacock”)
I, in my youthful confidence and arrogance, proclaimed far and wide at Knit/ Purl on Saturday that I would have a ShiBui Spock knitted up by the following Thursday’s Sip ‘n’ Knit. [...]

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major plotz alert

It was baby T’s FIRST birthday on Friday (Aug 24) and I just got the photos…

It’s a tradition in our household that babies get their own birthday cake on their 1st b-day, to do whatever they want with it. It’s also an unofficial tradition that they get icing and cake everywhere – the walls, [...]

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not a newt

It turns out Fig is either an Oregon Slender Salamander or a Clouded Salamander. It took Mum and I nearly half an hour in the Audubon shop to actually find a book with something like him in it. We probably won’t be able to tell what type s/he is until maturity. Right now [...]

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sock. yarn. crawl.

Three words that were just meant to be put together. Like chocolate and peanut butter.
Maia, my co-conspirator and partner in SKA crime, is visiting PDX this weekend. She asked, some weeks ago, if I would be willing to show her some of the better yarn stores. I’m sure we all are not [...]

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