my craft room takes shape

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Work is on go slow in other parts of the house. We are saving up to pay for the carpet (we are determined to pay cash for everything we do in this house and I’m learning patience and also the value of money) and retro daddy is soon to start doing a spot of painting […]

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and I set up a ravelry group

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One of my favourite online places to hang out is ravelry. In fact sometimes I start knitting or want to knit something and spend just a little too long on ravelry instead of knitting. Anyway I often get asked questions about kinas or a knitting question and I answer it and then it gets a […]

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what I knit with and how I care for it

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I’ve been asked a couple of times recently what I knit with and how I wash my knitted things. Easy. Firstly almost everything I knit is made from 100% wool or cotton. I’m not a fan of knitting with acrylic as it doesn’t feel as nice as I’m knitting with it and there is just […]

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the shawl grows

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Every night I’ve been making some progress on the shawl. I’m more of a small project knitter like a baby or toddler cardigan but I’ve got to admit this shawl knitting is pretty addictive. I just love watching it grow and am actually thinking I might do another shawl after this one. I know. Instead of […]

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and the floors are done

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Well we are back in the house………..but unfortunately can’t put anything back on the floors until Monday night. Oh the disappointment when retro daddy walked back to the car to tell me. The floor guy then reversed out of our driveway, stopped to smile and wave to me and I had to do my best […]

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come peek in my windows with me

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Thank you so much for your kind words about Nicki.  Retro daddy is on his way home and said he was so glad he made the trip. We have missed him so much and I want to know everything about it. I’ve been so flat out busy as we are living somewhere else this week […]

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in memory of nicki

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There is only one woman I’ve ever let retro daddy stay out till early morning in the city to play pool with – and that was Nicki. And as I publish this retro daddy is in Oklahoma to say his final goodbyes to her. At her funeral. The shock that she was so tragically taken from […]

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say goodbye to the green carpet

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Prepare to be amazed………………… I can’t quite believe that the green carpet came out today. I know it’s just the downstairs but after living with this carpet for almost a year, well I just kind of thought that it was never going to come out. At our old house it was all floorboards and white walls […]

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toffee apple tea cake

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We move out tomorrow for the week so that the floors can be done downstairs. It’s been an exhausting weekend of moving out furniture and stuff. Retro daddy would walk past me with a few tubs or boxes and say ‘hi hoarder’. Ahem, I think I might be doing a big clear out before I […]

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