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Perspective

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Today was the second day in a row that we were at the gym, watching gymnastics and breathing chalk dust. The girls did well, and as always it was fun to watch.

66/365 perspective

The best part was realizing that Shann cn pick up and keep going after making a mistake. It wasn’t that she couldn’t do it before, but the error was always reflected in her face, the effort of fighting off tears was evident. Today that didn’t happen. In my book that counts as a win.

65/365 Painty's Gift

Yesterday I received the nicest gift from Laura at the Unique Sheep. The orangish colour isn’t something that I would have chosen for myself, but I absolutely love it! Thank you Laura for such a thoughtful gesture. It makes me smile every time I look at it and I love it wearing it.

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Whoops

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

In the mass last ditch effort to get things organized around here before my surgery, I have misplaced more things than one would think possible. Patterns. Bills. The charger for my camera battery.

I probably have misplaced my mind as well, but that would require thinking. I am trying not to do too much of that at the moment either, because it is starting to hit that this isn’t going to be easy.

At least the weather has been absolutely beautiful. I spend a bit of time outside today getting some yard work done. It was worth every moment.

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Sunlit Sunday

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Springtime came early this year.

59/365 Sunlit

We spent the afternoon out in the sun, enjoying the breeze off of Puget Sound. Frisbees and horseshoes were tossed, balls thrown and retrieved and a good time was had by all those involved.

In this case it was the Husbeast, the girls, a couple of the Husbeast’s sisters and a niece and nephew or two.

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A bit Skewed.

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

First things first, I was quite taken with the Skew sock from the winter Knitty.

53/365 Skew sock

Pretty huh? It is one of those patterns that are quite compulsive, I keep wanting to knit a bit more to see what will happen next.

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Where did the weekend go?

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

It is Sunday night and once again I am left wondering where the weekend went. We spent the weekend doing just normal things since we didn’t have a gymnastics meet. We walked the dogs, took the kids out to lunch, worked on household chores and suddenly the weekend just evaporated into Sunday evening.

52/365 rose

The Brandywine shawl is done, just waiting for blocking, I am kind of stalled on my Ginny sweater, the socks I started are on a temporary time out. So what’s a knitter to do?

blanket time

I chose to dive into some sock yarn blanket knitting.

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Friday…

Friday, February 19th, 2010

I am having technical difficulties getting my pictures uploaded for a decent post, so I apologieze profusely. I am finding it quite frustrating.

In addition to finishing Brandywine, I now have the back of my sweater, one front and one and a half cuffs of my sweater done. I am hoping that I can I can get all the pieces done, blocked and put together by the end of the Olympics.

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Love mommy, my mommy

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

When I get home every evening, I am often pinned down by this critter:

49/365 Love mommy, my mommy

Despite that particular critter’s dubious help, I manage to get a bit done. Tonight I finished the knitting on the Brandywine Shawl. I increased the repeats on chart B by two and still have a little bit of yarn left. It is difficult to determine if I have enough left to have added one more repeat. I think it might have been possible, but it would have been close.

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Home again

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

I am home again after a wonderful weekend with fibery friends at Madrona. It was fun to see people and to be inspired by so many things. I am trying to get my head around the fact that I have to re-enter reality in the morning by actually going to work.

So briefly, here are my latest two photos for the 365 project.

44/365 through the glass

45/365 convention center

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love through the years

Friday, February 12th, 2010

I had lunch with my folks today. This has become an annual tradition where we meet up on the Friday at the Madrona Fiber Arts Festival. I love that I still have them around and that I have the means to treat them to lunch once and a while.

43/254 through the years

I love that their hands show their love through the years. They have been together for over 50 years now and the accumulative years really are reflected in this photo.

42/365 flame

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Off Kilter

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

I seem to be the go to person at work for mending anything knitted. This was actually a pretty easy fix.


On a more normal note, the seems to be a hint of spring in the air.

40/365 Off Kilter

It just seems way too early this year.

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