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I’m having a bad day! I should have never left the bed! This sucks as I had a great weekend at the farm with Abi and my parents. 48 hours with two other people who were not afraid to help me share the prenting load! My Dad actually took Abi from me when she was [...]

Last night I purchased my first spinning wheel! It is a Louet S10. It is a single treadle model but I will be converting it over to a double treadle in a little while! I can’t wait for her to arrive! I now need to name her (yes I feel IT is a SHE) and [...]

Quick Abi update: It appears that we bought a baby gate just in the nick of time: She has figured out the crawl! I will try to post a picture of her in action as soon as I get one that isn’t fuzzy. In other news along with this long weekend celebrating the birthday of [...]

Saturday started out at 6:30a.m. with Abi deciding that sleeping-in is for suckers. After about a pot of coffee I decided that I’m going to finally get moving on my gardening. Chris had bought me three different gardening books for my birthday last month and I have been fanatically reading the articles at YouGrowGirl.com so [...]

from the stupid people! Apparently PETA has started a save the sheep campaign to let the world know about the cruelty in the wool/sheep farming industry and how we knitters are encouraging this abuse. Before I go any further let me explain that I grew up on a farm where we raised sheep and every [...]

It is time to take stock of the incomplete knitting projects I have conveniently placed/stashed around my house: 1 Rogue – started last September 2004 2 Green Lopi cardi with Stars – started some time ago, probably in December 2004 3 To Dye for sweater from Stitch n’Bitch – Started possibly March or April 2004 [...]

Yesterday I decided to do a little grocery shopping on my way home from school, so as per usual Abi and I got off the subway at Main Station (no my usual stop but it has an elevator which makes it possible for me to take Abi out in the stroller alone as people are [...]

DSC00004 Originally uploaded by craftygrrrl. Imagine my sense of maternal pride as I watched my little girl roll this! It’s too bad her father wasn’t home to see it as well.

Today was my first Mother’s Day, although according to some people, last year should have been my first since I was pregnant then. But then as a few people (one of whom was the other half responsible for the pregnancy) felt the need to point out that I “tehnically wasn’t a Mother yet so I [...]

I have finally done it…I have created a blog. This officially signals that Blogging has “Jumped the Shark”.