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I came home today to the new Rowan #44 (preview at The Knitting Garden)

me: "oooh" sets the new Rowan on the coffee table
DH: looks up at me "what? Is that like magazine crack?"

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J and N visited mid-June. (Yay, we (L) J and N visits!). It was great incentive for us to put our house back together (ahem, barely presentable, but thats a different story). J gave me this gorgeous long skinny scarf - STR 81% superwash and 19% silk in Stormy Weather. It is so soft and so purty. Thanks J!

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Hi. And some strange weather for you. :)

It has been a very busy many weeks - moving back into our un-complete-remodel-house, all the associated house clean up projects, plus all the busy work. Which leads me to ... procrastination.. and J Happy Birthday week! ( You see, I am terrible with dates. ) On top of that, she sent me package with yarn (mmm PF!) and books (crochet, cause we all need another hobby) and trash ties (I am wearing one now!) and good smelly soap (lime lavender!) ..Phew.

Happy Birthday J!!! Fuzzies hug too!

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Happy birthday to the fuzzies. They are nine today :) This is now their preferred position - sleeping. (sorry, I woke up Winter when I took the pic).

Also progress on the Bird in hand mitten. It is painful to knit worsted weight wool in tiny gauge. I am also unhappy with cuff and will frog and redo, but I will have to wait until I find (or buy!) more needles. Speaking of ... I did a little therapy today and bought more Patons Classic Wool Merino. It was on sale and I need some sweater (mindless) knitting. And . ahem... stash is .. well.. too much work to dig in the boxes.

Happy New Year!

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The last few weeks have been filled with work and house and more house and work ... So when I received the Vosges catelog... I thought, what a wonderful idea. I should make myself some good Vosges hot chocolate.

A warm wish of wonderful hot chocolate to everyone. (except those in 90 degree heat ;-) )

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e says:
we had this weird powedery snow/hail on the ground

j says:
the little balls of snow-like-stuff?
like if snow and hail got together and made a baby?

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DH and I are visiting J and her DH this weekend. I brought the Purple and Pink Donegal tweed with me to swatch.

Happy t-day!

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Raspberry + chocolate cake for GD. This one net to ~5lbs :)

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As drawn by the soon-to-be-famous-artist-Syd of Chez Davis.

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The cutest purple plush ever came from W+Jo yesterday. They had called a couple of weeks ago(?) to tell me Monterey Aquarium's newest sunfish is in their Outter Bay Tank. Oh my! A PURPLE PLUSH SUNFISH and a silver sunfish charm!

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I got package from J, the enabler, yesterday. I opened the box and it has a cute card that detailed all the goodies.

- 5+ skeins of Noro silk garden (for Kiss purse perhaps!)
- KP main line and shine worsted (cotton blend yarn for petting and swatching)
- AV fall 2003 book (not photographed, for I-like-that-neckline-sweater)
- and a present for GD (not photographed)
- a corkscrew scarf pattern

and the BEST part ...

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Yesterday, GD visited our home (for the first time) for lunch. I gave her a quick house tour (note the lack of door trims, baseboards, empty living rooms, beige blinds ... eek). That took five seconds and we moved on to more important things ...

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These arent mine. That's J's coolest socks and vans. There are two kinds of people in this world (well, not really! but you know what I mean) - Converse or Vans. She is all about Vans. She told me she was wearing her ladybugs and red Vans. "Hey, you must take a pic..."

Ok. Yeah. I am nerdy.

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I freed Soleil last weekend and it found a good home. Whoohooo! I am happy I dont have to frog and J is enjoying it! yay. Oh, and a bonus:

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GD and I had a superfun time. We had a play day plan and we started by going through the stash she acquired at Parkside's going out of biz sale. She knew what I really wanted to say that day was 'buy all the black yarn you see'...

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me: "why are all the bears you give me slouchy?"
DH:"cause I like the slouchy ones."

Someone wuvs me.

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So being the nerdy nerd I am, I added a category of "Happy" because I realize I dont have a happy category. Hrmph. I fixed that little problem. What I am so happy about?

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