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Started a brand new project with some brand new yarn! I’m in heaven… setting out side knitting up a storm while Darryl works in the yard.

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a new breakfast!

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When I see these photos I think of the song “You are an obsession” by the 80′s group Animotion.  I’m kinda embarrassed to say this, but this isn’t all of it… not even close… the rest of it is in my hobby room. Oh, wait… did I say my hobby room? What I meant to [...]

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Yep, it’s pretty much all he’s getting from me. The pattern is from Knits Men Want. I love the book!!! I’ll post a photo of both socks on him when I’m done.

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So you might be wondering why me; a guy; would be posting about knitting. Well the misses is making me a crew cap and from the picture she showed me, it looked really cool.  Well from the instructions they give you versus the picture is totally different.  Instead, the instructions want you to girly-fi it.  [...]

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Have found their way into our house. We can’t wait to start using them!

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Found this really cute idea in Simply Sublime Bags  –30 Low-Sew, No-Sew Projects by Jodi Kahn. I totally love this idea… I bought some cheap t-shirts ($1 -$3) and made totes out of them

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Since I’ve not had a lot of time to sew or scrapbook I’ve been doing a lot of knitting/crocheting more. It’s easy, portable, and so much fun! I got both patterns below from The Chicks with Sticks Guide to Knitting: Learn to Knit with More Than 30 Cool, Easy Patterns. I hope they both turn out [...]

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I have all this beautiful fabric at my finger tips and all I’m waiting on is new inspiration. Hopefully that inspiration comes soon in the form of the books I ordered from Amazon. I bought a few that had been setting on my wish-list for awhile. I’m glad I waited because I was able to [...]

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I picked this cookbook up at the library book sale for .35 cents. Darryl and I are fascinated by it. Most of the ingredients are recognizable, but there are some that I have no clue how to get my hands on.

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You’re The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien Harsh and bitter, you tell it like it is. This usually comes in short,dramatic spurts of spilling your guts in various ways. You carry a heavy load, and this has weighed you down with all the horrors that humanity has to offer. Having seen and done a [...]

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….At least so we thought. Margaret wanted to buy something so we went to Target and found nothing. How odd is this, she is in the book isle and there’s nothing there that she wants that has been released? I know I know, Margaret not being able to find a book? Absurd isn’t it? Well, [...]

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Title/Author: Hissy Fit by Mary Kay Andrews Pages: 419 Rating: 4.5/5 Format: Hardback Comments: Keeley Murdock catches her fiancé A.J. Jernigan having sex with her best friend/maid of honor Paige @ the rehearsal dinner. After pitching a royal hissy fit the whole wedding is called off. Keeley throws herself into her work and try’s to [...]

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