Conversations With My Brother

(Sitting next to me on the couch while everyone is knitting last weekend)
Kid Bro: Whoa, what are you making – is that a whole sweater? (everyone else is working on scarves, hats, socks).
Me: Yep, it’s almost done. I’m working on my last sleeve.
KB: Cool (watching for awhile).
KB: Why are your needles different than everyone elses?
Me: [...]

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The Return of Noel and Christmashead

Another holiday “tradition” – my sister and I start referring to each other as “Noel” and “Christmashead” in all our emails to each other. I tell ya – we get absolutely giddy about Christmas in this family.
And, lookie- here’s Kaity keeping watchful eye over Christmashead as she learns to cast on. She taught my [...]

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Let The Holiday Traditions Begin!!

We have a LOT of holiday traditions, and they start with Thanksgiving. We are traveling to our family vacation home (not NEARLY as ritzy as it sounds, but fun) to meet up with my sister’s family, my brother, and my parents. We have been spending Thanksgiving there for about five years now. My dad BBQ’s [...]

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And I Call Myself A Knitter…..

Here’s a picture of Carmen…. protecting my “stash” She crawled in there this morning when I left the door open. Yes, sadly that is my entire yarn stash…. comprised of the leftovers of prior projects – about eight balls of yarn, most of them half used. And I call myself a knitter.
And I know whereof [...]

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Party! (and not a psycho among us!)

Kaity and I had our Friends Who Blog party yesterday…. what fun! Here’s the gang, from L to R, Ariane, Shar, Jillian, Wendy, Kaity, Me, and Jen. What a great group of girls! They were all such fun. We had a fun day of dyeing yarn, eating, and knitting.
First we hung out in the kitchen [...]

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Spleen damage

We have a term in our house “spleen damage,” which refers to anything even remotely suggesting to our kids that their parents might have a sex life… “ewwwww, gross you guys!”
When my son was younger he took a fall and had to have a CAT scan to check for spleen damage (he was fine) [...]

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No Psychos Allowed

Kaity and I are gearing up for our FWB (Friends Who Blog) Party this Saturday.
We’re working on the menu and our gift exchange ideas…. making sure we have all we need for our Kool-Aid dying. We are so excited to meet all of you!
The hubby thinks we’re nuts, and the Bud is trying to figure [...]

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Sexy Is As Sexy Does

Check out what my buddy Jeanie came up with – a sexy knitters club! I’m in! And yeah – I look just like that….. okay, maybe just the big curly hair, but, like I always say, sexy is as sexy does. There’s even a cute little link on my side bar now. I’m not [...]

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It’s Gonna Be A Long Night!

The guys are all gone doing guy stuff this weekend, so it’s just us girls… and the cousins are coming to spend the night tonight. See, Kaity’s already starting in… “helping” with the photo shoot for my progress on my Wendy/Heather Essential stripe (aka tub sweater). It could get crazy later on.
I warned her, [...]

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Whew, I Think It’s Gonna Be Okay

I twitch when colors don’t match – you know, just because everything you’re wearing is blue, doesn’t mean it matches. There are different blues, different grays, pinks… you get my drift. However, I’m not really good a picking out colors. I know when it looks wrong, but I have a hard time getting it [...]

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