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Handmade Monday Edition

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I’ve recently received some great handmade gifts and wanted to share of links with you.

First if you haven’t heard of Jelby run over to Cary’s shop now and pick up some great felted and embroidered stitch markers for yourself, for friends, or for someone having a rough week.

Here’s some examples of sets i have bought from Cary recently.

Yes that is a holder with a Martini on it to hold little olive stitch markers! I tld you she was clever!

and when i saw her hearts in Feb for Valentines day i wanted to regress back to 5th grade and draw hearts all over my notebook and wear lisa frank shirts with unicorns on them.

and if hearts or martini’s aren’t your sort of thing she embroiders SHEEP! What knitter doesn’t like sheep!?



You really should run over to her shop and pick up yourself a set..she’s got 2 sets of sheep hanging out in there now and you don’t have to wait!

She’s also rather kind and made me a special freebie marker with my order and it’s super duper special to me. It’s an OBAMA ‘08 marker. I can’t tell you how awesome Cary is at really making you smile when you order from her!

I have a really special friend. Her name is Joy and I’ve known her for a really long time. SHe is the only friend I knit for holidays and her birthday. SHe takes great pride in wearing and enjoying the things i’ve knit up for her. We recently FINALLY after loads of sickness, and her campainging for Obama. She gave me a lot of handmade items this year and i wanted to share just two that i thought you might enjoy. They are unique.

This postage stamp bracelet from Fox Glove Accessories

She has them by color and Joy got me one in my favorite color orange! This is just so light and unique and fun. I really thought this was a super cool idea.

She also got me a yarn ball silkscreened on glass pendant. from Kiku.

So if you need some gifts, or apick me up for yourself or a friend who could use one, check these sellers out and spread some handmade joy out there!

Posted by Jennifer on 03/31 at 08:46 AM ♥ Comments (7)

Stuff and things

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It’s always stuff and things. Sorry i haven’t posted. I think it’s been over a month. What’s been going on you say? Flu, colds, and more of the flu. When you have a 5 yr old getting shuttled from pre-school to my house to wendy’s house it means this crap never leaves. It just cycles and cycles. I had a cold or two and the zombie flu, and wendy keeps catching colds and now has a fever/intestional thing. I just keep straying lysol and hoping for the best over here.

I feel like since winter won’t let up it’s grip (there’s another inch of snow and ice on the ground today) I haven’t done much. I feel like the rest of the country is going outside and enjoying some nice weather and we’ve been left in the snow.

Will someone please explain to me why people who don’t like Obama or Clinton want to vote for Mccain. Well if they don’t like Mccain and think he’s too old and don’t even know any of his platforms? I keep hearing Well i want to make my vote count. I hate tot ell you this but your vote would really count then if you didn’t vote. Yet my mom insists that 26% of the country (including her) feel this way. Someone please feel free to explain to me why this makes sense, even if it is only to you?

Nat took a picture of me that i like. I will share it with you.

Usually i look like i was smcked int he face with a board. Or making goofy faces like:

or

ok enough of nat’s weird pictures of me. I want to thank Saira, Jo, and Cary for sending me packets of crap candy and trinkets and baubles. They rule. Oh and tea in these cute tins.

I also want to thank Erin and her daughter Jessica of My dorky Best Friend for making me a Faux Braille shirt. I bet none of you know what my awesome shirt says?


ok ok erin assures me it says LOVED. How sweet is that? Speaking of Erin..her and Kristen were in town. We briefly met up on tuesday nite for a little catching up and knitting, with johnny and lesa.
here’s lesa modeling her pretty yoke on her Grimace sweater she made.


and erin knitting something on long needles



and kristen and johnny

and Jessica and erin again



I really miss the two girls and enjoy catching up with them when they are in town. Plus everyone gave me nice warm hugs. It felt so nice, or maybe i was just in need of good friend hugs.

I got nat to chop off all his uneven hair. It’s really a ploy so i can see and kiss his eyebrows easier..but nonetheless he always looks good with his short hair. Eben if he’s telling me that he is out of salsa and i should really DO something about it.

i’ll close with a blurry picture of us and you can see his short hair…

Posted by Jennifer on 03/28 at 07:22 AM ♥ Comments (15)