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What switched on the Christmas Spirit.
I wasn't feeling very Christmassy this year. I was sad - I love Christmas usually but this year I haven't been able to muster the energy to get into it. There's a tree, there's some presents under it,...
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And so are the days of our lives
We're off camping down the coast for a week or so of relaxation. But before I go I'll share a few montages of 2011 to bid farewell to one of the most tumultuous years I've ever had. The second half of...
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Rest and Repeat
I love camping so much. For a family that spends most of it's time plugged into something electronic, I think we do okay in the great outdoors.The wildlife and the scenery were outstanding this year -...
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More 2011 - this time with stats!
In 2011 I accomplished something I have always wanted to do, but never thought I'd ever be able. I learned to run! Sure I do it in intervals, but still - I totally get there. According to runkeeper, a...
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There was movement at the station ...
Remember this?BEFORENow it looks like this!Originally the room had an opening from the living room into the kitchen directly in front of the entry door. So when you walked into the house you saw this....
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Veins in the benchtop
I have recently learnted that one of the worst things about putting a new kitchen in a house is how long you're actually without a kitchen in the meantime. We're doing ours in two stages - one cooking...
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Fully operational
At long last I can declare the cafe at the nouvelle chez Daly open!The old me would have baked a lasagne. A cake. Brownies. Risotto perhaps. The new me made a low fat, low sugar, low gi pear and...
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I have plans!
Because we want to obtain both development approval and a building certificate at the same time, we have obtained some additional engineer's drawings for the building works. These are fun to look at!...
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flipside
I managed to find the energy to finish a wrap I started way back in November on our weekend away to Sewjourn. I was a little iffy about the colours, particularly the dark green, but now looking at the...
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Easter Show Knitting
And so it's that time of the year again - time to look at what should be the best knitting in the country for 2011.I say should. Although I can't expain this.Or this.But I was weak in the presence of...
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12 Week Body Transformation Wrap Up
I signed up, I stuck to the program as best I could. I trained, cooked, ate and trained some more. And indeed a transformation did happen, but it wasn't just on the outside. I think I was transformed...
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from little things .. big things grow
I've got a friend whose daughter is having a baby girl. She asked me to make a blanket and I happily obliged. There was an adamant no pink instruction, so I made one in ink blue, avocado and red Rowan...
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Go the Cro
I've been liking the crochet lately. I think crochet gets a bad rap because so much of it is ghastly. But it doesn't have to be!I must admit that the inspiration for this came from ravelry via...
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The Elephant in the Room
When I have long blog breaks I'm often undecided about whether to chuck it in altogether. I'm not so delusional as to think the online community is enriched by my presence - it most certainly is not,...
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The Termite Situation
The pest inspection didn't hide the fact that the termite damage was there. The price of the house reflected this, and we knew that the actual beasties were long gone. All that was left is their...
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Set in Concrete
The Situation ... FIXED!See all that new structural timber?My dad single handedly replaced all the joists and sured it all up, the ant man came and approved it all, and now, even as I type, they're...
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In sooth I know not why I am so sad ....
You have to look pensive in finished knitting object poses don't you? Otherwise you might look like you're having FUN, and some patterns are way too serious for that. Even in silver jeans.This was a...
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the lazy perfectionist (me, not the dyer)
I've been waiting to give this yarn the attention it truly deserves. I didn't want to rush a post about it, because I wanted to take the perfect photos, write the perfect prose and give this yarn it's...
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APOLOGIES IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS BEFORE
(NSW Knitter's Guild members .. you are not experiencing dejavu)I’ve been doing a bit of crochet research lately. One technique I’ve found fascinating is this tunisian style crochet done with an...
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A thousand little pieces
One of the things about building from scratch is the multitude of tiny little details that crop up at every step. Little things like needing the exact location of the waste pipe in the back of the...
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woodward windwood
It's a rare event that I ever knit the same thing twice, and I'm not even sure how this happened. I appear to have finished another windward scarf. Which is fortunate, because my mother snaffled the...
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Billabong
Nothing finished for months, and then 3 things done in November! I'm just finishing stuff all over the place.I got an email (I bet you did too) from Janette's Rare Yarns offering some long discontinued...
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So, how's the house going?
I get asked this question all the time. For a long time I didn't have much of a response, because the work mysteriously seemed to have ceased. It's an unfortunate consequence of having a job that is...
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Sunset Boulevarde
Hey groovers - I finished another thing!A while ago I said that I thought I'd never again knit another triangular shawl. I felt over them, and whenever I wear one, I feel a bit weird.However, I didn't...
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And so it continued by day and by night
We didn't have room for a tree, so we improvised.There was lots of wonderful food.And the usual cougar activities. This year we toasted schoolies 1985 with a west coast cooler.Yech!And then I got them...
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