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Monthly Archives: May 2012

Some days

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Some days, I stress. I worry about the cleaning. About the laundry. About the dishes needing to be put away, and the bottles needing to be washed. About the bills to be paid, errands to be run, groceries to buy. About maintaining the picture in my head of what I think my orderly, perfect life   …Continue Reading


Charmingly Modern Shop Update

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I’ve been busily knitting during any free time I can nab up so I can get some pouches into the shop. Ezra does his best to distract me. Today, it was by donning his fashionable fox hat and striking multiple poses: Just look at those cheeks and the double chin! Out.Of.Control. Anyway. We’re talking shop   …Continue Reading


Ezra’s Nursery

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We finished Ezra’s nursery two weeks before he arrived – perfect timing! Now that we’ve been using it for several weeks, I feel like I did a pretty good job anticipating how we would use it, though there are still a few touches I’d like to make here and there. On my last update of   …Continue Reading


A glimpse of… my front porch

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This Friday’s ‘a glimpse of…’ is a day late but that’s okay! I’m sharing with you my day-early Mother’s Day present. Alex took me – and Ezra too! – to Home Depot today to pick out some flowers for the flower pots on our front porch. Just ignore the grody gardening gloves there. Every May,   …Continue Reading


Step 1 for starting my business

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Remember when I mentioned about starting another business? Well, I’ve begun the process! Step one was not what I normally spend days/weeks/months doing: research, research and more research. Instead, I bought supplies and just started making. I picked up these six skeins of Lambs Pride worsted yarn from my local yarn shop yesterday. I was so   …Continue Reading