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Christmasing 2017
This was the first Christmas season ever that we spent at home, just the two of us. It's true that that was hard for us to be away from family this year, and there were moments when we felt sad about it all, we did still manage to have a really...
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I've been (Christmas 2017 edition)
Because someday, maybe next year at this time, I might wonder what I was up to.
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A different response & undercurrents of joy
The last few days haven't exactly gone as planned. Somehow, I managed to rip the handle off our relatively new car door on our Subaru?! On my way to bring the car into a body shop to have a new door handle put on, I was driving down I-35 and a rock...
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Decembering
Since I wrote the previous post, I do feel a lot more at ease about the season. Turns out, when I pace myself and don't fill up my schedule, there's more room for joy! I haven't had any huge epiphanies or anything, but we're really enjoying this...
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Going slow, having grace, giving thanks
I've written a lot about how it's hard to be away from family—and it is especially hard this time of year. But we did have a wonderful, truly joyful Thanksgiving, as we celebrated with our friends, Fleet and Molly.
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Simple sausage & egg breakfast casserole (overnight optional)
As the temperatures cool and the holidays approach, I dream about having a simple, savory, throw-it-in-the-oven, baked breakfast casserole. I had some specific criteria in mind:
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Preparing for a slower December
As we get nearer and nearer to Thanksgiving and Christmas, I get so excited, but also, I experience that moment (or several moments) of overwhelm, closely followed by the thought life is moving way too fast and I just need a moment to be still...
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Creativity check, early November 2017 + thoughts on 9" circulars
There's something about the cooler weather that makes me want to make things, even more than normal. Many people are "seasonal knitters," preferring to do most of their knitting in the cooler months. Iif you've read my blog for any amount of time,...
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(Late) autumn loves
True fall weather is still holding out on us, for the most part. But the fall color is quite nice this year, with leaves in so many shades of gold and yellow and the occasional red. I'm itching to partake in the season (and I've been only somewhat...
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Roasted broccoli (for the faint of heart)
Happy November, friends! I've never disliked broccoli, per se, but I'm not enamored with it. I'll eat it steamed, raw and dipped in ranch or something, or cooked as a side. But I never crave it and Nicholas won't go near it, so I rarely buy it.
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Finished Glacier Park Cowl (aka the friendship cowl)
A few weeks ago, my friend Molly and I finished our mini Knit-A-Long (KAL) with our Glacier Park Cowls, which was such a fun project! We each chose two colors of Woolfolk Tynd (the softest yarn imaginable) and cast on for this KAL after taking a...
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An unembellished life
This is the post I've mulled over for several weeks, well, actually months. It was a post that was inevitable, I just wanted to write it at the moment in which I might burst if I didn't start typing, and here we are.
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Little joys
You know my feelings about Tuesdays—or if you don't, I won't go into details yet again, but I usually don't work on Tuesdays, and they're usually fun, joyful days for me.
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Finished blush Blackwood cardigan & sewing advice for beginners
I know I talked a lot about "slow making" in my previous post, and then I went and made 3 garments in 3 days, and you may wonder at the seemingly contrary nature of it all.
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Sewing clothes + slow as a good thing + weekending
I hadn't planned on writing a post today, but there's a lot I want to say this weekend.
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Creativity check & works-in-progress, October 2017
I figured it was time to do a little check-in, project-wise. I've been working on a lot and feeling exciting about both knitting and sewing. Here's a post about what I've been working on (and what I want to work on soon), but first, a pumpkin-y...
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Twenty-seven (a birthday post)
And just like that, I'm another year older. I've been ruminating some big thoughts as of late, and I hope to sort them out into some kind of logical post soon. But I did want to share a bit about my birthday this year, since its a tradition of mine...
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Fall things
It doesn't feel like fall here in Austin yet, but I enjoy welcoming the season into our home, bit by bit, knowing the temperature will follow suit eventually.
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Finished surprise socks
I've documented the only moderately interesting story behind these socks on instagram previously, so I won't bore you with a detailed version. In short, I ordered this yarn online to make socks for Nicholas, but one sock in, we decided it wasn't a...
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Choose well
I'm tempted to write the words "life has been busy lately," but the truth is, isn't that always the case? We (or at least most of us) thrive with busy. Even if we're not exactly thriving, the busyness is comfortable in its own way because it's...
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Minnesota, in the fall
Uff da this is a bit of a long post, but it's to be expected, since it's about my home and something I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about.
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A party in Ohio
On Tuesday, we returned from a trip up north to Ohio, to celebrate Nicholas' grandpa's birthday (with a surprise party!) and to spend time with family. The last time we were in Ohio was for his cousins wedding, a year ago, almost to the day. I wrote...
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Finished brioche scarf
I've been in a mood to finish-all-the-projects. I've mentioned before that I'm most creatively productive when I have 2-3 projects going at a time. Smaller projects, like Nicholas' slipper socks, were fast to finish up, but a few longer-term...
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The glad game & little bright bits
We're at home today, hunkering down from the fringes of Harvey that currently overlap Austin. The damage to the coast―very near our vacation spot a few weeks ago―is tremendous. If you're watching storm progress from afar, please pray for safety from...
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Finished May cardigan
I finally finished my laceweight cardigan that I've had on the needles since April! I've written about it, in it's in-progress state for months in several posts, so no doubt, the texture will look familiar to you. It was a lesson in perseverance,...
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