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do you pin?

April 29th, 2011 — 11:18am

Recently I started using Pinterest. It’s like a virtual pin board where you can pin things that you love. I usually save photos of things I like to my ipad, or bookmark a post in google reader, but this is a great way for me to collect everything I love/want/am inspired by in one cohesive place. Plus it’s fun to be able to share with my friends.

Do you pin? If so, what do you love about it? Make sure you add me if you do, my user name is pretendsanity.

PS: if you’re interested in joining, I have a few invites I can send out – just let me know.

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forward

March 27th, 2011 — 10:51pm

We’re doing pretty well over here.
Considering.
I know it’s going to be a long time before the kids and I reach the end of our loss, our grief. But in the day-to-day we function well and the pain seems to be subsiding a little bit.

Life is definitely still going on. We spent some time in Denver at the beginning of spring break and projects have been in abundance (as always). Eden started Girls on the Run, which she has really been enjoying. It’s a great program for girls and at the end of the school year, they all run a 5k. Eden is doing well with her training and I’m sure she will be able to run the 5k easily, lapping me for sure.

I hardly ever remember to take pictures of anything I’m doing these days, but here are a few:

Twinzies

twinzies loving their food

Shiny white floor

my new dining room floor, all shiny and white

Yummy salads

so many more vegetables being consumed here now that our biggest meat eater isn’t here anymore

New plants

inspired by anthropologie

Growing up boy

Honor, seeming so old these days

more to come…

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Blog hoarding

February 3rd, 2011 — 9:50am

One of my favorite things to do is to read design blogs. My favorite is design sponge. I savor each post and save pictures to my iPad when I’m inspired, which is frequently. I like to hoard up a lot of posts and sit down and read them all at once. My brain starts spinning with ideas and then I go and decide to tear something up or paint or decorate or make. And it all just makes me so happy. Being able to create has saved me in so many ways.

And now I have 64 new posts saved up in my google reader which I’m about to enjoy immensely.

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knit on the corner 2010

January 31st, 2011 — 10:27am

I finally uploaded photos from last May when Tangle did “Knit On the Corner” for our downtown Art and Jazz festival. We’re already planning this years knitted graffiti – it’s so fun!

click here to see the whole set.

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vulnerability

January 31st, 2011 — 9:39am

If you have twenty minutes, watch this video. It is amazing what this woman discovered in her research about relationships.

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Um, I think its time to organize my knitting stuff.

January 23rd, 2011 — 11:19am

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Menu – week of January 10, 2011

January 10th, 2011 — 11:22am

(Have I mentioned how much I love the everyday food app for my ipad?)

Monday: beef stew with mushrooms and barley
Tuesday: (Jim) tacos
Wednesday: broccoli corn chowder with turkey bacon
Thursday: (Jim) enchiladas
Weekend: Spice rubbed cod with lemony rice, cottage pie

Breakfast, lunches & snacks: breakfast muffins, granola, mini pita pizzas,
hard boiled eggs, hummus & veggies, nachos

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Some fall knitting

December 19th, 2010 — 11:32am

I know I’ve been totally MIA lately and the best excuse I can give is that
I’ve been totally stuck in my head and really busy… that and my phone
broke and I couldn’t blog via phone.

So to make up for it here’s a pic of my sister’s family and the twinzies
wearing the sweaters I made for them.

The yarn is spud & chloe outer and I modified their pattern into a top down
raglan to avoid seaming with chunky yarn. My mom was kind enough to sew the
zippers in for me.

More to come.

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Catch up

November 4th, 2010 — 6:29pm

Gosh, I don’t even know where to begin. Its been such a busy past month! I think the best I can muster is a bullet-point, boring list.

*my business partner, Christina, had to go to Germany for a couple of weeks because her father has been really sick in the hospital. I wasn’t too worried about her leaving because i used to run the store all by myself before she came along. That was when our sales volume was way lower than it is now and needless to say, it was a terribly crazy few weeks. I’m thankful Tangle is so super busy, but there were days I wished for things to be slower, I wont lie.

*during that time Jim and I celebrated our 11th anniversary. We had a fun day of shopping and running around together, then dinner in Palisade before Jim’s show at The Livery, Palisade’s local bar. When I worked at Palisade Pharmacy in high school, I used to have to deliver prescriptions to that bar. My dad lives in Palisade so he’s got lots if friends there and he spent the night introducing me to all of them. It was an experience to say the least.

*speaking of my dad and Palisade. He managed to get the mayor recalled in this last election.

*Jim is currently on tour with the Pineapple Crackers. And I’ve been a single parent for seven days now. It’s been going pretty well without him, better than I expected, I’ve just had to be really organized. Jim will be gone for another two weeks. He’s currently in LA and has several shows planned there before he moves up the coast. I’m super jealous that he will be in Portland and Seattle, two places I’ve never been and really want to see. The tour schedule is on their website if you want to see if they will be in your neck of the woods.

*what else? I’m still working out with the trainer twice a week. She currently has me on a 24 day diet/14 day cleanse that hasn’t been setting with me very well. I’m still preserving a ton of food with my friend Amy. Our current obsession is apple sauce and apple cider cardamom butter. (more about our preserving efforts later.) All crafting has been set aside while I work on our holiday window decorations which need to be up by the 18th. I hate how Christmas comes earlier every year, but oh well…

And I think that’s about it!

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aaand it’s finished

October 13th, 2010 — 7:10pm

*Knitting pure and simple pattern
*Mirasol hapi yarn
*Wiener dog that likes to pee on the floor

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