Project Rusty

Super Secret Pal 11 Reveal

2008-01-03T01:11:23Z

I know I've been the worst craft blogger ever (OMG I hate when people write for days about how busy they've been and why they haven't blogged in ages), but after traveling to Texas for the birth of baby girl Lilac and breaking my camera and t...

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Giving Thanks

2007-11-26T21:39:36Z

Thanksgiving this year was smaller than usual, but a lot more work due to my mom and I deciding to cook almost everything from scratch. Woo hoo! It was fun and tasty. We tried to make everything from local and organic whenever possible. Our menu...

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Belated Thank You to My Super Secret Pal

2007-11-05T22:41:36Z

Well, I've been struggling with my camera for the last couple weeks and I think it's officially dead. I've rudely made my upstream Secret Pal wait for a public "thank you" for quite some time while I tried to get some pictures of the awesome good...

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My First Secret Pal Package

2007-10-02T23:12:28Z

Yesterday, I came home to a mysterious package. Funny, how excited a grown woman can get over a box with her name on it. Weird, even. Anyway, my pictures are kind of sucky, but I think I have the most considerate and thoughtful Secret Pal evah! ...

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My First Homemade Apple Butter

2007-10-01T18:25:34Z

Yum! My mom and I made homemade apple butter this weekend from apples we picked in our orchard. We slow cooked them using a very cool and super easy recipe. The apple butter turned out amazing! One note, though, we almost totally blew it on the...

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Obnoxious Ravelry-er

2007-09-26T23:10:12Z

I now belong to something like 44 million Ravelry groups. It's out of control. Must scale back. Maybe tomorrow.

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Gonna learn to drop spin!

2007-09-25T21:06:05Z

Woo hoo! I am so excited. This weekend my little froo froo LYS is having a drop spindle class and I'm going! Kids are staying with my mom and I'm going to finally learn how to spin yarn. OMG.

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SP11 - first package sent

2007-09-11T16:54:15Z

So did I mention that I sent out my very first Secret Pal goodie package last week? I'm dying to see if she likes it. I think I did a pretty good job...maybe even went a little overboard. I guess I can't really say what I sent because it's, uh, a ...

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Simple Living vs. KnitPicks Wood Options Needles

2007-09-10T23:46:37Z

So much for simple living and not being driven by my consuming habit...no more shopping...blah, blah, blah. Did you see the new KnitPicks Harmony Wood Options needle set? Dammit. I wants them.

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Feeding my soul with books

2007-09-10T20:44:06Z

I didn't get much chance to craft or knit this past week, but I did do some cooking and a lot of reading (among many family-related activities). I'm reading three books right now that I'm really loving. The first is Noah Levine's "Against the Str...

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