A party without a cake is just a meeting. ~ Julia Child It's the tale end of the weekend. We've been celebrating life with cake and bubbly. This is the British Hubby's favorite cake, tuxedo cake, from our local grocery store. We don't often treat ourselves to this so it felt like a very special…Read more Let Them Eat Cake
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Malabrigo March Wip Update
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ~ Martin Luther King Jr. This has been a challenging week both personally and professionally. I've accomplished some knitting, but not much. Earlier in the week I cast…Read more Malabrigo March Wip Update
On This Day
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. ~Napoleon Hill My boss is a baseball fan. He likes to stream Cubs games in his office in between meetings. Here's an interesting tidbit: the first live sports event on KDKA radio took place on April 11, 1921. It was a…Read more On This Day
Cooking a Feast
Gratitue unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and…Read more Cooking a Feast
Weekend Celebrations
Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated. ~ Osho It's the weekend once again. You guessed it. We're celebrating life here! This week was sort of the calm before the storm at my day job. I took advantage by getting some extra knitting in. Introducing my first liberated wip of April! My…Read more Weekend Celebrations
Purpura April
If I knew you were coming, I'ld a baked a cake. Purpura is Latin for purple. Now that Malabrigo March is over, the Malabrigo Junkie group is running a color along for the month of April over on Ravlery. Can you guess the color? It's Purple! Purple just so happens to be my all time…Read more Purpura April
Malabrigo March Comes to a Close
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. ~Douglas Adams Another Malabrigo March has come to a close. If you remember back on March 1, I posted a group photo and listed out my projects. I managed to sneak in another…Read more Malabrigo March Comes to a Close
Love it or Leave it: Socks
I like making string into something I can wear. It's March 31. That means I should have eight completed wips. It also means I'm celebrating the end of the work week. Break out the bubbly, I have eight frogged or finished projects. This month three projects were frogged. All of them were the start of…Read more Love it or Leave it: Socks
Hat Saturation
A piece of magic is a hat. ~ Martha Sliter I think I've mentioned before the British Hubby and I are at the hat saturation point. Naturally, this means I cast on four different hats this month. All four are for myself. I probably should feel a bit guilty about that, but I don't in…Read more Hat Saturation
The Fifth Completed Wip of March
Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts. ~ Winston Churchill Yesterday, I completed my fifth orphan wip project for March. I came dangerously close to running out of yarn. I think there are about an extra 10 inches. It's my Dewberry Dancer from Malabrigo March 2016.…Read more The Fifth Completed Wip of March
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