I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly-y

Where did the time go? How is it that another segment of Project Spectrum 2 is over already? This time I didn’t even get to dye my wool yet! Oh wait – I did dye some of my handspun in the colours – see:   Oops – I haven’t loaded a pic of the black [...]

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Fini

I am so very sad. Two things were finished today. My PS2 Jaywalkers and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. (I will keep all book details on my 2007 Reads page so others can avoid spoilers) Doesn’t Kira look like she has been Stupefied? That is pretty much how I am feeling to have reached [...]

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WLC Week 14

Thanks in part to everyone’s support of my efforts, I dug deep and really took my excercise up a notch this week. I rode my bike to work each day – and home (before I was getting picked up after work). I took some very long walks and made some of those little changes, like [...]

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Long Overdue Update

So it has been two weeks since my last Weight Loss Challenge update and folks, it’s not going too well. I shouldn’t be so dramatic. Really the WI on the 4th I was up .2 lbs   No big deal right? I had been expecting a loss because, well I was used to them. So the [...]

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A week in the Life

of a sock in progress, in pictures.      Nexen Beach – Wednesday      Porteau Cove – Thursday       Construction stop on Hwy 99 – Friday I am sorry to say that the road stop is the only pic from Friday. I had this fantastic plan to get a pic of the sock at the Grand Entry  (video [...]

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MD Swiffer Mop Cover

or My 1st Pattern! Now this pattern is inspired by a combination of two patterns, neither of which were quite what I was looking for. So I do feel a little strangely calling this ‘my’ pattern but don’t they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery? I have been thinking of something like this [...]

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Aww shucks…

 Toni nominated me for a Rockin’ Girl Blogger Award. Thank you!                                            The hard part of accepting this is that I am supposed to nominate 5 other girl bloggers in return – I am reluctant to do it only because I don’t want this to feel cliquey or anything. I really admire the women whose [...]

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Summer of Socks!

Yes, it is Summer! Today was the 1st day of our Summer Program. We hiked the 4 Lakes Trail and spent the day lazing at the river. Well, after a fashion. The children explored, built a ‘castle’, found ‘diamonds’, crossed the river, found snails, built a monument and a dam. I knit. I managed 7 [...]

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Scattergories!

The game is SCATTERGORIES…it’s harder than it looks! Here are the rules: Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following. They MUST be real places, names, things…NOTHING made up! If you can’t think of anything, skip it. Try to use different answers if the person before you had the same [...]

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