I frogged the first pair of glow-in-the-dark mittens I started for a couple reasons: 1, my needles and yarn didn’t match up and it was so tight I was getting frustrated and 2, the pattern was too hard for my small brain. Then, fortuitously, I found my old mitten pattern that I used to use […]
Archive for September, 2009
September 29, 2009
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Red Alert! Red Alert!
By Caitlin Jane in GripingHello, all you ladies out there, I have a serious warning for you: Walmart takes bathing suits back! YES! I was behind a woman in line at customer service today and she returned 2 bikini bottoms with NO QUESTIONS ASKED! I almost barfed. When I got to the head of the line I asked the […]
September 28, 2009
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Cookies
By Caitlin Jane in foodThese are sort of mutant cookies. I had half a box of lemon cake mix that had been sitting around for a while-I don’t even remember what became of the first half-that I decided to make cookies, based on that awesomely easy recipe I made almost a year ago. I used mini chocolate chips and […]
September 26, 2009
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Resist no longer
By Caitlin Jane in crochetThis glow in the dark yarn’s been around for a long time now and up until yesterday, I’d avoided it. Although I’d looked at it many times because I have a deep, abiding love for all things glowy. It’s on sale at Zeller’s (and everywhere, I think) for half the original price so I went […]
September 23, 2009
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Bounty
By Caitlin Jane in foodI hadn’t ordered a good food box from the Anne Johnston Health Centre in months but something in my head tweaked a couple weeks ago and I put my name down. Am I ever glad, look what I got: 1 Romaine Lettuce 2lb carrots 3lb potatoes 3lb pears 3lb apples 2 lb onions 2 red […]
September 21, 2009
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Rescued!
By Caitlin Jane in kitty, loveNo pictures, sorry, he’s shy. But I rescued the World’s Smartest Turtle from certain death earlier today. Or yesterday, I guess, same thing. When I woke up and walked past the pond there was no water squizzling out of the squirter and I was all, DANG IT! because I’d just cleaned the filter and it […]
September 21, 2009
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I made a robot
By Caitlin Jane in a good day, Art!, crochet, GripingThis is all I had the time to hot glue together on Saturday. Then I glued her to the wall under her friends Gluey and Glovey. Now she won’t be lonely. Anyway, other than that, it’s business as usual. I’m completely, utterly, addicted to knitting and it’s making me crazy. I sure wish I hadn’t […]
September 17, 2009
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Put the lime in the coconut
By Caitlin Jane in foodOr maybe the other way around? I have been trying recently to expand my horizons by cooking food outside my comfort zone. This means baking-mostly-non out of the box deserts. I’ve already made 2 of these apple cakes (which really are the best apple cake I’ve ever had and it gets totally eaten here-unusual) in […]
September 16, 2009
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Back to my roots.
By Caitlin Jane in crochetInspired by Jana (who is the best knitter I know), I bought some gorgeous yarn at Romni, dug around on Ravelry and found a pattern I thought was do-able and got to work. It was hard at first: I couldn’t even remember how to cast on and I stared at the needles willing my hands […]