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Yarn Day

January 21, 2013 Marie 1 Comment

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My knit group girls had our 3rd annual yarn day this morning. We started our day with wonderful breakfast and coffee at First Watch, then a trip to the nearest yarn shop. In snow. Apparently it doesn’t matter if we do it on MLK day or President’s day, we’re just going to have snow on yarn day. It’s actually pretty fitting, really. Anyway. I told myself I wouldn’t buy yarn, and I even packed my Multnomah shawl to work on while the other girls shopped, thinking that sitting and knitting would help me avoid temptation.

I think we all can guess what actually happened here. Which is how this skein of Malabrigo Sock came to be in my possession. I was *thisclose* to buying some of the Malabrigo Baby Silkpaca, but I didn’t already have a project in mind for it and I’m trying to be good about not buying yarn without a plan.

So sock yarn it is. I think I’ll knit Dona’s By The Seine River with this skein. I’ve been doing a lot of plain stockinette socks lately, and my go-to textured pattern is the Hermoine’s Everyday Socks. But I splurged on the Malabrigo and it deserves something fancier than plain ol’ socks.

I wish I had brought my camera with me to share pictures of us girls together. I’ve been forced to trade down to this teeny tiny purse that holds barely anything and now I’m always forgetting to grab my camera before I head out the door.

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Little cabin in the woods

November 5, 2012 Marie Leave a Comment

2nd annual weekend with my knitting girls. A cute little cabin in the woods with some really amazing people that I’m lucky enough to call my friends. Lots of delicious food, knitting, laughing, movies, and overall just plain relaxing. I even purchased some ruffle yarn at Walmart on a food run and knocked out a scarf Saturday night (and while I’m not a huge fan of novelty yarns I do quite like the look of it, and you can’t beat how fast it knit up).

A previous guest at the cabin had started a treasure hunt, leaving a clue at the end of their guestbook entry and then, subsequently, 2 more clues that leads to the ‘treasure’ (a little bag of found stones from one of the local gem mine touristy place for kids). Each guest has since found and re-hid the treasure, leaving their own clues to its location.  Not ones to break the tradition, we followed along and re-hid the treasure with our own clues and I whipped up a quick little knit sock out of some leftover yarn to contribute our own little treasure.

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Vacation photo dump

September 24, 2012 Marie Leave a Comment

Two cameras worth of photos to edit, which is very… boring. All those shots of the lake? They all end up looking the same after a while. I know there was a reason for taking all those photos, but perhaps next time I’ll remember that just a few is perfectly fine.

The weather didn’t want to cooperate, and the perfect sunny weather the previous week had turned to cold and rainy. To make it worse both of us were sick. We made do, though – either sucking it up and going out in the rain or finding shops to duck into to wait the heavier rain out. I spent most of our days feeling high from medicine but trying to power through and make the most of the trip, and then we’d return to the motel where I’d crash hard asleep on the couch while we watched TV. We’re the epitome of exciting, aren’t we?

Despite the weather (and being sick) we managed to see and do quite a bit. Pasties for lunch, hot chocolate at the cafe/book store, beach walks to see the shipwreck remains, lighthouses, waterfalls, Presque Isle with its monster rocks and heavy winds and crashing waves… not a bad itinerary, if I do say so myself.

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Homeward bound

September 23, 2012 Marie Leave a Comment

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We’re on our way home as I write. It’s been a long, kinda chilly weekend but much loved as the Mr and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary. It was a great way to celebrate. Pictures and more to follow as soon as I get a chance to sift through the bazillion photos we took. For now I leave you with a pretty waterfall we visited while in the UP.

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