Mmmm Chocolate

Need a recipe for some chocolaty goodness for your holiday party? This recipe for Devil’s Food Cake, found in Everyday Food magazine, turned out wonderful. This is not a rich, sweet dessert but more of a light, airy cake with a mellow chocolate taste. It was easy to throw together and only took about thirty minutes [...]

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A place for our shoes

I am really thrilled that another one of my husband’s home improvement projects is finished. What was once our laundry room has been transformed into a very functional mudroom. With hooks for our coats, baskets to hold various things (hats, gloves, recyclables) and a place to take off shoes, he has created the perfect space right [...]

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A funeral, parade and a big thank you

Thank you all so very much for your kind thoughts and prayers regarding my girlfriend Defi. We are all still in shock. Her funeral was yesterday and I don’t think that it really truly has hit me yet. It felt like a surreal experience to sit down with her husband and hold her beautiful daughter. [...]

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Next week…

Next week my “happy” post will come. I will share my recipe for the devil’s food cake I made for Thanksgiving, tell you all about what a truly nice day it was and show you all the progress (albeit slow) on my knitting projects. Heck, I may even be able to post pictures of our almost finished [...]

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If it ain’t broken…

I should listen to that advice more often. Due to my fairly short attention span and the fact that WordPress just doesn’t want to cooperate, I can’t seem to get one of my pictures as a header. For the time being, please ignore the current header image. Hopefully I will be able to sort this [...]

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I knit what?

Like I don’t have enough knitting going on around here, I recently bought some yarn and started another felted Sophie bag, only this time I doubled the pattern in order to make it twice as large. Once I started knitting I knew I had two problems. First, by doubling the pattern it really was going [...]

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Cranberry sauce and big balloons

This is the first time in many years that I will not be hosting Thanksgiving dinner. Instead of cooking up a storm, I plan on attending (with husband, daughter and foreign exchange student in tow) the 80th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. Afterwards we will be heading over to my parents house [...]

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Ba Ba Black Sheep

have you any wool? Yes sir, yes sir three bags full!
 
Around here that couldn’t be more true. After the stressful day I had on Wednesday, I have been doing the one thing that helps me clear my head – knitting. Originally, I had three red bags sitting on my windowsill full of yarn to make [...]

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To our teachers with love

I had a post planned for today. It was to include pictures of the scarves I am making for Leah’s preschool teachers. These are to be Christmas gifts to the wonderful women who teach and take care of Leah when I bring her to school. To show them how much I appreciate all that they do. [...]

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Scrapbooking with friends

The long scrapbooking marathon weekend is over and I am really happy that I not only completed thirty pages while there, but had a really fun time. I will be posting pictures of some of my favorites over the next couple days. In the meantime, here is a picture of myself and Tammy (she is [...]

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