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The First Shawl
I am super proud of myself!!! I finished my first shawl in 20 days. That is pretty good considering i have two small people running around calling my name every 5 minutes. I LOVE it by the way. I love the yarn which is Plymouth Yarns Mushishi. It is 95% wool 5% silk worsted. There is 491 yards / 250 grams and it is soft and bouncy. I did not have any problems with it splitting. I have already added another skein to my wish list. I used the grape but would love to get my hands on Pomegrante colorway. You can see all my notes on my Ravelry page.…
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A Little Break and a Big Mess
I’m back!! lol Wow it has been a busy busy month. I have managed to get quite a few things finished! I also began tackling my spring cleaning and in the process of doing a complete craft room redo! I have a few pictures to share with you and then the next post I will talk about my new room!!! It is super pretty and full of storage ideas and easy to make things so be sure to check it out. First FO is my poncho!!! I am super excited to get this off the needles. I started it Sept 24 and finished it Jan 7th. You can see details…
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Love of Knitting
I may be old Fashioned but I love real magazines and books. I was super excited to get a copy of the Winter 2013 Love of Knitting magazine. The magazine retails for $6.99 which to me is an excellent price compared to other magazines in its category. Looking at the cover I am already pulled into this magazine because of the “Creative Cables learn how circle” in the bottom right corner. I am new to knitting and really want to learn about cables! I also Love how there is not to much going on the cover. When I am out shopping I usually have just a few seconds to scan the magazines…
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The end of a year and a New Beginning
I am sitting in my living room this morning. Its 8:13am which is funny because my hubby believes that is his magic number. He says every time he looks at the clock during the day is says 813. He is goofy and I love him. The boys are in the den playing with their Christmas presents and watching some cartoons. My darling hubby is working this morning trying to finish a house (we own a gutter business) but I expect he will be home soon since I see the rain starting to drip on our Auburn flag on the front porch. It is a rather gloomy day outside and despite…
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A little Christmas Enabling
    I love Christmas. I love the magic that is in the air, the decorations, the togetherness it brings and of course the presents. I know its not about the presents and we teach that to our boys but presents are fun. I however have family that has not gotten my love of yarn and knit/crochet yet so they were a little reluctant to shop for me this year. Instead they gave me money told me to shop for myself and then stick it under the tree. You maybe thinking well that’s no fun knowing what you are getting but I am able to get 2x as much…
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Ho Ho and some FO's
Wow I can not believe that Christmas is in 3 days!!! I am not happy that Thanksgiving came later this year. It really messed me up. I love Thanksgiving don’t get me wrong I have about 4 totes of Fall/Thanksgiving decor that goes out every year. However, with the mixture of the boys being sick over Thanksgiving holiday and the beginning of December and then last Sunday I was sick, I feel like we missed part of the season. Speaking of December…. it has been cold here. We had several cold nights where we could actually the fireplace. It was so nice being able to knit on my Christmas socks…
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My Feet are cold!
Update: Ok friends… I am in a blog contest and I need your help. I need you to go to this site http://www.favecraftsblog.com/christmas-craft-blog-hop-vote/ … scroll down to you see my sock and click on the little heart…. thanks so much and Hugs I am having a hard time accepting that today is already December the 9th. I felt like I just had Thanksgiving. Its so funny when you are young you feel like the days last forever. You never really appreciate the reason for the holidays and really get to enjoy them. Now as an adult and mom I feel like it goes by to fast and I am missing…
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I saw a leaf fall, then November was gone.
The weather is a funny thing is Alabama. There was cool days, a few nights of overnight freezes, a week of 70’s and now I am sitting here once again with a fire burning. It is mid 40’s outside but going to 30’s tonight. I have so much to do still before December. I did start to decorate last week, but not the trees yet. I always do the trees the day after black Friday. Did you notice I said TREES as in more than one… try 6! One big one in our living room, a 7 foot in the den, the boys each have their own tree, one in…
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Operation Christmas Child
I love the organization Samaritan’s Purse. You can read about it here. They do a shoebox drive every year at this time. The shoe boxes get filled with toys and essentials for kids and then are shipped around the world. We do boxes every year and last year we paid the $7 and had the box tracked. we were able to see the city in which the boxes got delivered. One of ours went to India and the other went to South Africa. It was very exciting! You can read about the boxes here. You can read about what to pack and see our boxes from last year by clicking…
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Honey Cowl FO
 So I have been working on the Honey Cowl for a while now. Its not that it has taken me that long to knit its that I am new and made some boo -boos and me being the OCD person that I am could not live with them. For starters lets talk yarn…  For this project I chose Yarns By Homeplace Farms hand dyed and Cascade 220 Heathers in the Burnt Pumpkin. I was super excited to fins a local hand dyed yarn that matched the Cascade Yarn. I wanted to do a striped pattern but knew I wanted a thicker piece in the center. I worked on…
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