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I was so excited to find this bag tonight at goodwill for only $3. I think it is going to be my new knitting travel bag. I always throw a bunch of stuff into my diaper bag/purse and it gets lost or dirty or forgotten or milk-stained. I love to take knitting with me when I go away or when we go on a long roadtrip and I’m thinking this bag will be the perfect thing. It just begged to come home with me.
I did something a little different today and hit the goodwill with a friend and her daughter who is one of Emma’s playmates. It was wonderful. The girls played together in the toy section, always staying together and my friend and I took turns wandering around the store. We both kept saying to each other how well our system was working. I’m looking forward to thrifting with this new system again soon. I highly reccommend tag-team-thrifting!
Be sure to read Blair’s post today about the reunion with her preppy-self and her much-loved Bermuda bag…I remember mine with several interchangeable covers. I don’t think I even had anything to carry inside them except for maybe a few kleenex or something. But still, I HAD one and that was all that mattered.
And finally, I leave you with one of those posts with lots of pictures, where I just can’t decide which one is my favorite. But let me just say that my daughter is MAD about her kitten. She is still thanking me (and Jesus) for getting him for her. She cannot keep her hands off of him and the wide grins and giggles and squeals of pure joy make all the dirty "glitter" box changes worth it. (Emma thinks it’s called a glitterbox, and I thought, maybe if I use this terminology for it, cleaning out the lumpy clumps won’t be so bad. It’s really not working.)
I was so excited to find this bag tonight at goodwill for only $3. I think it is going to be my new knitting travel bag. I always throw a bunch of stuff into my diaper bag/purse and it gets lost or dirty or forgotten or milk-stained. I love to take knitting with me when I go away or when we go on a long roadtrip and I’m thinking this bag will be the perfect thing. It just begged to come home with me.
I did something a little different today and hit the goodwill with a friend and her daughter who is one of Emma’s playmates. It was wonderful. The girls played together in the toy section, always staying together and my friend and I took turns wandering around the store. We both kept saying to each other how well our system was working. I’m looking forward to thrifting with this new system again soon. I highly reccommend tag-team-thrifting!
Be sure to read Blair’s post today about the reunion with her preppy-self and her much-loved Bermuda bag…I remember mine with several interchangeable covers. I don’t think I even had anything to carry inside them except for maybe a few kleenex or something. But still, I HAD one and that was all that mattered.
And finally, I leave you with one of those posts with lots of pictures, where I just can’t decide which one is my favorite. But let me just say that my daughter is MAD about her kitten. She is still thanking me (and Jesus) for getting him for her. She cannot keep her hands off of him and the wide grins and giggles and squeals of pure joy make all the dirty "glitter" box changes worth it. (Emma thinks it’s called a glitterbox, and I thought, maybe if I use this terminology for it, cleaning out the lumpy clumps won’t be so bad. It’s really not working.)
celebrations
The girls and I are alone on valentine’s this year while Dan is away doing some carpentry work. (Before he left this morning, he did leave us each a little treat on the kitchen table when we came downstairs this morning). The girls and I are still celebrating the day in our own way. This morning I made these supposed-to-be-pink-turned-out-purple heart pancakes. I am definitely following in the footsteps of my mother who always made us green breakfasts on St Patty’s day. The pancakes were very yummy, even though Dan was missing…
We also have two new friends in our home,who in this picture seem to really be in love as well. I got the pattern from a book I found at an estate/tag sale this summer. It was a little lady who was moving from her home into a nursing home and selling many of her posessions. She was so crafty and the sale was full of patterns, yarn, thread, books, needles. Tucked inside this book was a little notecard with her shaky handwriting that listed all of her grandchildren’s names. Beside each name was the toy she had picked out from the book to make for each of them. Very sweet.
The turtles are filled with lentils which makes them so floppy and fun. The girls love tossing them around to each other and Emma carries hers around in a big green bucket.
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*Happy Valentine’s Day to all!!*
The girls and I are alone on valentine’s this year while Dan is away doing some carpentry work. (Before he left this morning, he did leave us each a little treat on the kitchen table when we came downstairs this morning). The girls and I are still celebrating the day in our own way. This morning I made these supposed-to-be-pink-turned-out-purple heart pancakes. I am definitely following in the footsteps of my mother who always made us green breakfasts on St Patty’s day. The pancakes were very yummy, even though Dan was missing…
We also have two new friends in our home, who in this picture seem to really be in love as well. I got the pattern from a book I found at an estate/tag sale this summer. It was a little lady who was moving from her home into senior assisted living Toms River, NJ and selling many of her possessions. She was so crafty and the sale was full of patterns, yarn, thread, books, needles. Tucked inside this book was a little notecard with her shaky handwriting that listed all of her grandchildren’s names. Beside each name was the toy she had picked out from the book to make for each of them. Very sweet.
The turtles are filled with lentils which makes them so floppy and fun. The girls love tossing them around to each other and Emma carries hers around in a big green bucket.
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*Happy Valentine’s Day to all!!*
swaps
It looks like some packages are already starting to roll in, so I’ve established a flickr photo pool to share pictures of our swap goodies. Please photograph the treats you received in the mail and post your pictures to the group. I only ask that in your photo description you include who the package was from and their blog/web address (if they have one). I think this should work and it avoids having me juggle all the pictures via email. If you don’t have a flickr account, you can sign up for free account here.
Join the group pool here.
It looks like some packages are already starting to roll in, so I’ve established a flickr photo pool to share pictures of our swap goodies. Please photograph the treats you received in the mail and post your pictures to the group. I only ask that in your photo description you include who the package was from and their blog/web address (if they have one). I think this should work and it avoids having me juggle all the pictures via email. If you don’t have a flickr account, you can sign up for free account here.
Join the group pool here.
