WLC – Week 7

Boo ya!!
I have lost another 3.2 lbs!
Seriously, this is working so well this time.
I am down 16.6 lbs altogether – putting me more than halfway to my 10% goal of 29 lbs by the end of July.
My realtionship to food seems to be changing. I am having less urges to indulge – or overindulge as [...]

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Accreditation Awarded!

(this title is a bit of an inside joke – a parent from our preschool brought us a book of horrific fables from Nepal – one of the stories was called Audacity Awarded…maybe I will type it out for you…seriously this book is full of stories so awful they remind me of The Eye of [...]

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Home Again

I’m back! I was away at ECEBC for the weekend. Largely I found it to be a waste of time and money (again!). Such a shame. The courses did not move beyond the basics or challenge us as caregivers. We did get a whole lot of photocopied colouring sheets (great for the compost), vendors giving [...]

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WLC – Week 6

Yippee! I am down another 1.6 lbs this week!
So I have lost 13.4 out of my mini goal of 29 lbs.
In 1.1 lbs I will be half way there – in 1.6 lbs I will have lost 15 — will I be able to achieve both this week? I am going to try.
This week I [...]

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Ahhhh….Long Weekend

So it was the first Long Weekend of summer (well, not technically – but it always feels like it)
I stuck around home, my cousin finished the hardwood on our stairs – oh, I should take a pic of that…coming soon! We hung out, talked ’til the wee hours, bbq’d, walked, played simultaneous Sudoku {I got [...]

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Slow Week

Things have been busy – too busy to knit, too busy to read, too busy to blog.
I just spent 2 hrs catching up on everyone else’s blogs. Phew. Now I’m too tired to knit!
Ah well, this is a long weekend right?
I did manage to finish my 1st square for the Greensburg project. Here’s a pic [...]

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WLC – Week 5 & Poetry Thursday Returns

Sooooo after 3 days of eating, eating, eating – when I wasn’t necessarily hungry but was in full blown snack mode – I lost .6 lbs   I will gladly take that! I was so sure that I was up like 5 lbs, I dreaded stepping on the scale last night. Phew. The ludicrous amount of [...]

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Meme the 2nd

I have seen this all over the place and, well, I don’t like to feel left out:
Mark with bold the things you have knit at least once, with italics the ones you plan to do sometime, and leave the rest.
Afghan
I-cord
Garter stitch
Knitting with metal wire
Shawl
Stockinette stitch
Socks: top-down
Socks: toe-up
Knitting with camel yarn
Mittens: Cuff-up
Mittens: Tip-down
Hat
Knitting with silk
Moebius band [...]

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I think it’s about time I posted a little knitting content on my knitting blog, don’t you?
Here is the back of my Stacy Pullover. I believe that the pattern has not worked out according to it’s original design, but I am happy with it anyways. This is a surprisingly quick knit – so if I [...]

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Meme of 8 & Do Something

Here’s how to play…
1. Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves
2. People who are tagged write a blog post about their own 8 random things and post these rules
3. At the end of your blog you need to tag 8 people and post their names
4. Don’t forget to leave them a comment and [...]

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