Month: January 2008

  • Love Mattress

    I really like the idea of the Love Mattress – snuggles are the BEST – but I can’t see how it would work with a normal sheet.

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  • Lizzie plays Wii

    Sweet! Queen Elizabeth plays Wii! (Link courtesy of the Snook, who refers to her as “The Q wii n.”)

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  • Depressing customer.

    I had a lovely little old lady in the shop today who just DEPRESSED THE HECK out of me. She came in at lunchtime and wanted to know where the Feathers was. I showed it to her, and then answered her questions about how many balls she’d need to make a couple scarves. As we…

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  • Opera in the Domain

    It’s just less than 4 weeks til this year’s Opera in the Domain event, so I thought I’d get the ball rolling on planning. Last year there were about a dozen Sydney knitters who got together beforehand to knit and enjoy the sunshine before the performance. I think this year, with advance notice, we can…

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  • Food movies.

    Food movies. Mmm, food. (Superficiality and hedonism being my only defense against the fear of one’s own mortality.)

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  • Brigita.

    Oh Jesus. Longtime readers of this site will no doubt remember frequent commenter “brigita,” a fellow blogger and ND graduate (not to mention Purple Weasel). She stopped blogging earlier this year when she had her first baby, the little girl I made this outfit for. Tonight I got excited when I saw B’s blog pop…

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  • Progress Bars

    Sweet! I just got my Ravelry progress bars set up. They’re down there on the right. I managed to get them working myself, but I needed the Snook to do the fancy CSS stuff to make ’em look pretty.

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  • Best of Bootie 2007

    Sweet! The Best of Bootie 2007 CD is available for download…

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  • Now we are seven.

    Happy blog-birthday to me!This website is now seven-years-old. Wow, that really crept up on me! I remembered late in December that the anniversary was coming up, but somehow it slipped my mind over the holidays. It wasn’t until I saw M-H’s blog birthday post this morning (Hey, we’re twins!) that I realised the big day…

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  • One More Resolution

    Okay, Reecie has one of the best New Year’s Resolutions I’ve ever seen: “Continue being hot.” LOVE IT! That one’s totally going on my list.

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