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Yes, I have been very quiet. As usual not because I have nothing to blog about, but because I never get around to actually doing it. Today I thought I would show you what I have been up to this month, amongst other things.   They are all made to sell at Christmas Fairs, hoping I find more than the one to attend

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Totty told me I must be the last person to blog about this. She may well be right. This is what I went to, organised by Lucy Locket at Millets Farm near Oxford. Unfortunately, my car had to go to the garage to have a new head-gasket fitted, so I had a courtesy car instead. Oh how I hated this car. It had absolutely no get-up-and-go and it was 1.5 hours drive each way including motorway

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I know it is a very long time since I last posted anything here. There are many things I had thought to post about and many photo’s taken to post, but it never got that far. One of the reasons was that I hate writing in Bloggers posting tool. I heard about Live writer, so this is also to test that out. From what I have heard, photo handling is easier with live writer, so this post is mainly

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When I saw this here, I knew I had to knit one for Ben, who is rather "into" FSM.He did however, have to wait until this week for the eyes to be added as they had to arrive from the US. Here he is in all his glory I did knit Ben a hat with FSM for christmas He did ask me to knit it for him, and as it has been going to school with him all this week, I think he liked it. What do you think?

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3rd January 1987 at Islington Registry Office 3rd January 2009 in Boston, Lincolnshire I think I know which one of us has changed the most ;o)I know my blogging has been very hit and miss recently, well more miss than hit, but I am hoping to do better this year; just don't hold your breath!We had a very quiet Christmas here. Mike worked until 8pm on Christmas Day, so we did not really start

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Saturday was an eventful day. I received an award from Totty and the Monkee shop opened. I am still concidering who to pass the award on to, so more about that at a later date. In the Monkee shop, I managed to secure a pouch. A parcel arrived this morning. This is what was in it Can you see who it was from? This is what I bought from Monkee Maker See, original Monkee Maker item With monkee

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yielded quite a few fabric pieces for my stash. They are a mixture of fat quarters and bolt ends. There are also a couple of bigger pieces for backgrounds. What do you think? Did I do well?

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On her birthday, Mum had decided that she would like an outing to the museum in Skagen, a small town at the very north of Denmark, 40 Km north of where Mum lives. It is the museum's centenary this year and they have managed to get an exhibition of 600ish old paintings from the area together. The town of Skagen was very well known to painters in the latter part of the 19th and early part of the

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Friday, Mum and I went for a drive. First we went to my Dad's grave with some flowers. Mum thought he would be wondering why he was getting flowers this time of year. Normally she only puts something on around 1st December, a winter decoration which lasts until after Christmas. I think she has forgotten that I normally put something on when I am there. She is excused, as she cannot easily

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Now, what do you give a 90 year old, who has a small flat full of the content of at least 4 households and who never throws anything out? I could not think of anything, until I started knitting a test piece with Noro Blossom. It then occurred to me, that last I was home, I noticed that the cosmetic pouch Mum was using for her knitting/crochet accessories was falling apart. There was my answer;

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Making fabric postcard. Though I wasn't really interested in making postcards, I could see possibilities for the idea.This is the postcard I made, we had to make one with this design, after that we were allowed to make what we wanted. I decided to make some folded notecards for my Mum as a birthday present, she is 90 on saturdayI love this little fellow, works really well on this background

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but not quite a holiday.I am volunteering as a helper on a camp for disabled adult women. I did this last year too and it is great fun, even when the weather is rather wet and cold, like last year. At least the forecast this year doesn't look too bad, compared to what we have had recently.There is usually some sort of crafting going on on camp, though what crafting we can come up with to the

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Just before I left for Yorkshire, my Postie knocked on the door with a parcel. He told me it had been at the sorting office for weeks and was just about to be returned to sender, which he could not understand as he knew we were at home. A card saying it was at the sorting office had apparently been left by a relief postie when he tried to deliver it. This relief postie refuses to use our postbox

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In answer to the questions on Knitty Otters blog for the 200th post giveaway1.) How long have you been knitting?Since November 1965 when my Aunt Dagny taught me. I knitted a scarf for my teddy in moss stitch; about 15sts on 3mm needles, I still have those needles somewhere. It was a magical scarf, My Aunt visited every Sunday and that was when I knitted. Every time I got it out, all my mistakes

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I promised quite a while ago to post some photos from our holiday.Here they are:This is the view of the hotel pool from our balcony. You might just be able to see the sea above the trees in the background, further back from there is the mainland of Greece and mount OlympusThe rest of the photos are from the day trip we took (the only thing we did all week apart from going to the pool) to

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if it happens when you are outside Waterstones bookshop! I heard last Monday evening that there was a woolshop in Alton, so decided to go and have a look on my way home from "Knit and natter" Tuesday, a rather showery day. Found this lovely wool, which is now on needles, more on that later. Alton also have quite a few charity shops, so I had to have a look in the ones I found. In the

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and I know I promised last week in a comment on some-one's blog, to show pictures of what I made on holidayI saw the dodecahedron here and was intrigued. I had to make one too. Found there was a crochet version too, so ideal for the flight to Greece. I had some pure wool from Kauni which I bought in Denmark last I was there. It is a rather hard wool so I thought it would benefit from being felted

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but I will forgive you for thinking so, when you see these photo's.We have spent the day clearing out the loft. A very much needed job. Found a box full of stuff that haven't been touched since we moved here over 20 years ago!What I wanted to find was my knitting wool. I knew I had some up there, I did!!!Quite a bit! Much more than I remembered! Luckily Ben is away for the weekend with Scouts on

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