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It Girl Crochet by Sharon Zientara ~ Book Review

It Girl Crochet is full of my kind of patterns!! Sharon Zientara has compiled a collection of wonderfully unique patterns that are both modern and vintage at the same time. As a designer, there are times that I look at a pattern and think “Man! I wish I came up with that design myself!!” While looking through this book, I found myself thinking that multiple times.

The book is divided into 3 sections: Crochet Nouveau, It’s a Mod, Mod World, and A Brave New Boho. Seen on the cover, the Psychedelia Mitts, designed by Brenda K. B. Anderson are part of the It’s a Mod, Mod World section. Not only is the look of these mitts unique, but so is the construction. They are worked as a flat oval, which is worked in the round, and then stitched together to become mitts. If you know my designs, you know I love different ways of constructing items, so I am quite taken with this pattern!

Image provided by and used with permission from Interweave/F+W
It Girl Crochet By Sharon Zientara Interweave/F+W; $22.99 Image provided by and used with permission from Interweave/F+W

The Crochet Nouveau section is full of patterns inspired by the art nouveau period.

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The Seventh Birthday Retro Party (and some other stuff)

The girls turned 7 on Sunday. I have some snaps to share with you to show our festivities. Plus a little bit of yarnie stuff at the end of the post. 🙂 I think this was the day before their birthday. Doug was so proud of them! For their birthday breakfast, banana pancakes with real maple syrup and fresh strawberries. Yummy!! Here is Birthday Girl Kyla ready to party! And Birthday Girl Vada is all ready as well! Like I … Read more

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Ready to Give Hope ~ 371 times!

We have finally finished opening the last of the Project 19 boxes. Those boxes kept coming all the way into February, and I wanted to wait to show you the final pile ‘o hope until they were all here and opened and hugged. Here is the tiniest package of hope that we received, and its inhabitant. Isn’t she the cutest? Kyla was very excited about the Rainbow Unicorn!! We had been in contact with the Boys and Girls clubs of Hobokin … Read more

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First Floor

I have snaps of the first floor to share with all of you. Let me start by reminding you we are still moving in. As a matter of fact, as I type this Doug is making the last few runs from the apartment to the house to get the last of our stuff. I still have to go back to the apartment and clean the heck out of it. Fun.

Anyway, we are still moving. There are boxes everywhere, accompanied by piles of “stuff” that needs to find homes. It’s a wreck. But you’ll just have to deal with the wreck if you want to see the pictures.

Also, we have a next~year~or~two plan of things that need to happen as soon as we have the money to do them (we really don’t want to charge anything,) and a 5~to~8~year~plan of things we want to have done to get the house to our dream home. I will share some of our ideas for the first plan, the second one will only cement your suspicions that I am completely off my rocker.

Ready?

Here we go.

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1923

I love it when Vada does her own hair. She’s so proud of her creation! So darn cute! Kyla was a little sick this week. We had a pajama cuddle day on Wednesday. She was very cuddly and very sad that her tummy wasn’t happy. Vada once again entertained us with her self~styled hair. She even got the back this time. I found this beauty at a consignment shop by InsaniTea. (I talked her down to $40 as it had … Read more

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