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This makes me happy

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Looloo

I was going to email this to a bunch of people who are into the whole "experience" of the bidet, but the list got longer and longer, so I thought it would take less effort to post it here. Check out how happy they are!

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Random head check

As promised, random to the extreme. Tabitha got her first hair cut a few weeks ago:

I had a moment of true remorse, but it just suits her so much that it was short lived. The picture was taking with a lens baby so it's got that dreamy, funky quality to it that makes us all love lens babies so much. Also recently, Oliver lost his first tooth, quickly followed by his second. This isn't the best picture of him, but it is of the gap.

Our tooth fairy is fairly modest by some tooth fairy standards these days, but he now has 2 Susan B. Anthony silver dollars to show for them.

Another first, for me this time, was my first ever journey without my family, with my dear friends Carolyn and Tifanie to my first ever Artfest! WOW! What an experience! Both to be on an art retreat, and an amazing one at that, and to be without the kids for 5 straight nights! We rented a great little lake house and spent the evenings drinking a glass (or three) of wine, chatting and crafting. And on the first morning, this was the view of the lake from the cabin:

I'd forgotten what frost looked like. It was such a nice feeling to be in the northwest again. This picture was followed by the realization we didn't have any butter for the toast, but we did have cream and a blender! By the time I had made the butter the toast we too cold, but I felt pretty proud of myself regardless.

I wish I had better pictures from the actual retreat, but I guess I was retreating too much for that. I didn't even send an email the whole time we were there! But you can check out some of the other participants pictures here. I do have one of the metal working samples I make from the workshop I took with Susan Lenart Kazmer. She was amazing!

I'm not completely into the form we made,  but it was sooooo much fun to bang on copper for hours. I can't wait to do it some more, and already have a bunch of metal working/jewelers tools on order for the ucc.

And to end the randomness with a slice of more random than ever, my kids have figured out how to take pictures with my iphone. I found these the other day and thought what a good job they'd done of capturing the odd moments of our lives.

Puts me and my SLR to shame.

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Hmmmm

I'm not sure how I feel about this. I think I will go and analyze it a little bit. What Angharad Means

You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection. You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive. You have the classic "Type A" personality. You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people. You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts. You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals. You are deeply philosophical and thoughtful. You tend to analyze every aspect of your life. You are intuitive, brilliant, and quite introverted. You value your time alone. Often times, you are grumpy with other people. You don't appreciate them trying to interfere in your affairs. You are truly an original person. You have amazing ideas, and the power to carry them out. Success comes rather easily for you... especially in business and academia. Some people find you to be selfish and a bit overbearing. You're a strong person. You are wild, crazy, and a huge rebel. You're always up to something. You have a ton of energy, and most people can't handle you. You're very intense. You definitely are a handful, and you're likely to get in trouble. But your kind of trouble is a lot of fun. You are balanced, orderly, and organized. You like your ducks in a row. You are powerful and competent, especially in the workplace. People can see you as stubborn and headstrong. You definitely have a dominant personality.

What's Your Name's Hidden Meaning?

Worth a laugh

Bunnies. Doing things.

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No-not those sorts of things. Well, not all of them anyway.

Snow break

We've been in Sister's Oregon for the last few days, visiting Eric's dad and his wife. Besides seeing the grandparents, I love coming here because they live a whole 2 miles away from the stitchin' post. As soon as we got here I made my usual excuses and ditched the fam to go get some yarn. I am almost a year over due on my sister's birthday present, and so I started on these:

They were such a quick and easy knit (from Altered Knits by the way) that I had to make another pair:

And by the time I had finished them:

I had it in my head to design my own so now I have this:

But I only have one of them because it came out a little too small, so now I am working on this:

Thank god for grandparents and the endless hours they spend with their grandchildren.

It hasn't all been knitting and, well, more knitting. Tabitha made good on the cough she had last week, which we thought was improving, and developed a full blown duel ear infection mid air on the trip down. I spent our first morning here knitting in an urgent care waiting room. But at least this was the view on the drive there:

She's already feeling better.

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