I have moved. Not physically, but my blog has.  I wanted to do some things that I couldn't do here on LJ without paying for an account, so I have moved over to Blogger.

New Blog!

Update your links, all you countless millions who read this.  (Ha ha)

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I was planning to post this yesterday, but we spent all day at the Maryland Renaissance Festival having a blast (and eating ourselves silly), and I was too pooped when I got home.

My darling hubby spoiled the heck out of me for my birthday.  I ( Read more... )

OK, so you must forgive me the horrible (and utterly predictable) pun.  I ordered some Knit Picks yarn specifically to try my hand at some Kool Aid dyeing, and Tuesday, Jen and I hit the Giant to pick up some Kool Aid.  This is what followed.

The unsuspecting yarn and Kool Aid: 
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Roxy tagged me on this one - my first official blog-tagging!

ten years ago: I was almost 22, living in Meadville, PA, doing community theatre and dating a guy who was WAY too young for me.  (I might actually have been back home in Pittsburgh if we're talking 10 years exactly.)
five years ago: I had been ( Read more... )

Courtesy of Jen's post on being from South Jersey, I had to check Blogthings for their list of "You Know You're from Pittsbugh When..."

"Hey Yuz Guyz" is your traditional greeting. Well, not really, but I know plenty of people who do say it

You know the time and location of every Wing Night in a 10 mile radius.  And you know the best ones in the ( Read more... )

Well, mostly finished, anyway.  It's been put through the washer and is currently drying around a bag-wrapped copy of the Yellow Pages.  And then I just need to find handles for it.  And attach them.  This is sounding less done by the moment.

So, this is the before:

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Today has been an awesome day.  Kris and I were out running around ( Read more... )

So, my very first order ever from Knit Picks was delivered by my lovely mailman yesterday.  I had to share the fabulousness with the world (mostly because hubby is already bored with it.)  And here it is, in all its glory:

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I'm a little afraid of what that subject line may bring my way, but oh well.  =)

So, last weekend (the 20th), a few of us Knitty girls met up at All About Yarn in Columbia.  I picked up a few hanks of Wool in the Woods Double Kiss in Bashful.  No clue what it is going to be, but it's pretty, dammit.

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