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*** EDITED sorry about complaining about such woes. Don’t you just have those days, weeks, months where everything you try to do just ends up all wrong? It’s like the universe is trying tot ell you something…and it isn’t good.

ok. i HAVE been knitting and crocheting, really. BUT like the world gangs up on me so does the knitting universe too. Latley everything i do and spend time on is all wonky and wrong or i am so confused i cna’t figure it out and get all bummed out.

problem 1. puchitomato’s nina was nice enough to share her POO pattern with me. But when i made it it looks nothing like her picture. hmm. maybe the mistake i found in her pattern wasn’t a mistake with the numbers at all. maybe i am just not meant to crochet cute poo? who knows. anyways i crocheted it twice and didn’t get what’s in the picture, so i give up on that one.

problem 2. i get the cute cute new book by nickey epstein of knitted flowers, and i am absolutley confused and baffled by this rather simple flower pattern that only consists of 6 rows. Yet i cannot understand it for the life of me enough to make one. i am also confused on the size amongst other things. i also tried another easy pattern in there that consisted of only 4 rows. and i did something wrong too. sometimes i think the universe is telling me i cannot make cute things.

aside from that have a happy rabbit day.

and really sorry about the crankypants sort of post, but i am just so frustrated right now.

Posted by Jennifer on 04/16 at 10:35 AM ♥ Comments (5)

Some awesome things for the weekend

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Some awesome things.
1. the easter bunny, when the last time you sat with him? me this week..my nephew was afraid. so my sister and i sat with him for the picture.
2. lucy making the dead muppet rug her bed
3. giant basset hound paws that smell like fritos
4. new summer time sneakers (altho they aren’t ooogly enough nat actually likes them)
5. the mustache factory dot com

Posted by Jennifer on 04/14 at 10:13 AM ♥ Comments (4)

Please Visit the Mustache Factory

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Nat’s online shop is now open!! Did y’all get your email from the Factory Foreman?
Please visit the mustache factory dot com

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Gratitude

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Every now and again someone does something so awesome i have no idea how to thank them. This is where i need y’all to give Amy also of Amyville fame, a STANDING OVATION!  A long time ago i asked her if i could one day comission a CAKE bracelet from her. Altho i wasn’t working for a long time i figured one day i could buy it from her.
I did work some and bought some awesome donut and cupcake markers. I think i need to take a picture of them. i forgot. So i do when i have cash to burn throw some y’alls way. But she did the most amazing thing. She sent me a cake bracelet and a muppets cd for a late b-day gift. And i seriously do not know how to re-pay the generosity of this crafter. She is amazing and so talented. So here’s the let them eat cake bracelet inspired by piddleloop. she says it’s one of a kind, but hell i am just honored to wear this work of art.

amy thank you so much for that package. i wear the bracelet proudly. cause i am the type of person who would eat cake all the time i could. altho nat is the type of person who believes dessert is only for dessert and not DINNER. ice cream, pie, cookies, and cake can all be dinner, if i want them to be. I know Nat and Jimmy both are guilty of eating that kind of stuff for BREAKFAST! (yer so busted)

Posted by Jennifer on 04/10 at 02:18 PM ♥ Comments (4)

Snoopy Anyone?

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This morning when my sister dropped Zander off we were wearing matching shirts. So we took a picture! Like aunt, like nephew! Check us out.

For the weekend I leave you with the GAGGLE OF PUGS TM that are across the street. The Black one’s name is Willie and one of the tan ones name is Munch. The two that are visting are two females i don’t know their names. Our neighbors sister breed’s pugs.

Posted by Jennifer on 04/07 at 09:28 AM ♥ Comments (4)

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We had a death in the family here. My cousin also our family Dr. passed away. He was DR DAN to all of us. I just wanted tot ake a minute to say he was totally awesome AND he delivered me. He was such a generous personality and he was loved by just about everyone.

ok sorry to start off sad. But i just read the newspaper write up and it made me sad. Anyways….
look what came in the mail yesterday…our pile of chicken poop and a gift for wendy (the display)

also this little pouch i bought from heyday fashion

and i give you with a SUPER SNEEK PEEK of some of the buttons you will find at the opening of mustache factory Nat’s online store. He is getting it ready to debut very soon and last nite i helped him make the buttons. These are just the buttons i stole…there’s plenty more




note the weiner dog wearing the mustache as a hair piece!

and speaking of dogs here’s some pictures for Carol fellow hound owner..to prove that our dogs haven’t been doing anything intresting either….

note sam’s (beagle) milkbone gut, how ladylike. and lucy just likes to stay as warm as possible read that as curling up as tight as possible.

Posted by Jennifer on 04/06 at 09:51 AM ♥ Comments (8)

Photography for you

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I was meaning to post this like last week and i ALWAYS forget everything i want to do. Anyways i always look at Joelene’s simple little blog site where she puts up random photography. for some reason i always enjoy the pictures that are there and i think you should too.

Posted by Jennifer on 04/05 at 11:27 AM ♥ Comments (3)

Little Baby Teeple

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Some good things fromt his week. First off Kristen is in town from sunny California. So all the girls met up at B & N for some knitting and visting BABIES! You see Tara had her baby a few weeks ago and brought little Mark Teeple out for his first big day out with all the crazy knitting girls. i was late and the luckiest one, cause after i got my coat off she said something quickly but all i heard was someone take him! so out went the arms! LOOK WHAT I GOT TO HOLD!




he’s wearing the little sweater erin made for him. It’s been a long time since i’ve held a newborn. Quite sometime, like 3 yrs ago when my nephew was born. They smell so good, like new cars. I put him up by my shoulder so i could hear him coo and gurgle and make little noises.

Posted by Jennifer on 04/04 at 10:10 PM ♥ Comments (3)

Mr. Quiz and Gray’s Anatomy

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If anyone wants to waste 5 minutes, take my Mr. Quiz. see how well you know me or how well you don’t know me.

click here

also what did you knitters who watch Gray’s Anatomy think of the knitting show? Personally i had mixed feelings about it because i didn’t like the fact that knitting was so associated with “replacing a man” or something directly related to a man. Which is kind of weird. I did however, like the Izzy character’s take on it all. She was the one who could knit and wasn’t using it as some replacement, she was trying to be supportive to a friend and yet she gave the sweater to her crush. All nice, except we all the know the knit your boyfriend/fiance a sweater curse. On a similar note…i’m obsessed with the Izzy character’s mug. She drinks tea out of a short squatty round clear mug of different colors. If any of y’all know where the hell i can find one please tell me. I go insane every sunday when i see this mug.

Posted by Jennifer on 04/04 at 11:31 AM ♥ Comments (6)

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here’s my awesome friend kelly from the Indiana University days…or i probably SHOULD say the Answer Indiana days.


i met her at a pretty crappy job i had in college. We worked at an answering service and by chance one day while we were still new we bonded over some crazy book she was reading about ice-t (yes the rapper). Kelly is the person with whom i went grocery shopping with always so we “wouldn’t have to do it alone” power walked with, griped with, cried with, and ratedChristmas lights in the rich neighborhood with. oh yes. She is still the same Kelly i had so much fun with. It just makes me miss her more than ever. 
** please note i am wearing the awsome DOG SHIRT i got in my craft swap from Daru her store can be found here i wear the darn thing so much i should probably get another one soon!

How are any of you Chicagoans surviving witht he Dan Ryan Destruction 2K6? Man i had my alternate route planned and everything. I think it’s going to be a super secret route too. But didn’t take it tonight because traffic was running free according to the news. I’ll have to report back on that later,altho i passed count them…NINE state cops with people pulled over and TWO without, just on the east side. Not counting how many lights i saw on the other side. yikes.

When i got home tonight i saw i had gotten some mail this weekend while i was gone! look at this cute return address label! (address smudged out for stalking purposes!)




it was just the cutest littlest box. and inside were some seriously awesome goodies from my fellow beagle owning blogger celadoncupcake’s carol THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS LITTLE BOX - TREATS CAROL! She was making some really cute tissue holders, when she offered me one i said my purse will thank you! So she sent not one but two cutelil holders even already packed with tissue!! She also knows i am a snoopy fiend and sent some cute charlie brown peppermints! A kinder egg which i haven’t had since i datedshawn from Canada and some super cute little stickers. Carol i really thank you for taking the time to put the little package together for me, i really love all of it. 

Not much else to show. Nat didn’t want to take a picture of me doing the Rancid Peanut-butter Reenactment, nor did he want me to play any Meatloaf or Archers of Loaf while he was sculpting our meatloaf tonight. (see he really is a total partypoo-per) Altho my sister called with several people who wanted to go in on a pile of poop so i did get to place an order at ilovechickenpoop.com!!

On the knitting front i am STILL plugging away slowly (very very slowly) on the shawl. I haven’t felt like knitting for the past week, so i didn’t work on it much. I am noticing tho that it is now April. And that means i have to gear up forjen’s mother’s day DISHCLOTH BLITZ. Every year i give my mom, Nat’s mom and Nat’s 90+ yr old grandmother knit washcloths, so they can throw out the icky ones from the year before. I usually try to make about 5 each. And because i am so slow it takes me usually a whole month.heh . hence the blitz. This year i am thinking about mixing it up a little by adding a flower cloth for the bath and maybe only 2 or 3 dish cloths for the kitchen.hmmmm . I also got an order from knit picks of their super cheapDK weight Merino to make an ARMY of Japanese Kitties. Oh yes. I tired that last year with Lion brand’s Microspun which was driving me crazy with all it’s splitting…and then my inability to sew the darn parts together. I am going to give it another go. this time with better yarn and some more tenacity. I also want to get my butt moving on some socks. I only made one pair last year and i want to make more this year. *sigh*

Posted by Jennifer on 04/02 at 11:24 PM ♥ Comments (1)