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  • The Missing Link....
    I found this link by accident while surfing the web..... Greenpeace Sad, but true!
  • Bringing back the Big Wheels!
    I've been wanting to try freezer paper stencils for a couple of years now, but haven't been able to get my hands on the paper. Today I found a tutorial on how to make your own freezer paper. I was so excited I had to stencil a t-shirt for Caleb. He absolutely loves i ...
  • Happy First Birthday Greyden!!
    Greyden celebrated his first birthday, on February 14th Valentine's Day!! He's the best gift I'll ever get! While not the most mellow little guy, he certainly has energy and a terrific sense of humour! He has the best laugh, especially when his older brother is b ...
  • Me want cookie!
    I can't believe Greyden is turning ONE in a few weeks!!?? And I'm totally making these for him!!! Cookie Monster!
  • Christmas Aftermath
    So here I sit amidst piles of laundry...clean and dirty. Caleb has finally given up calling everyday boxing day, he actually got dressed in clothes today! Big event! Soon we will be forced to start cooking real meals again...cheese, crackers and Kielbasa just aren't c ...
  • Holiday movies!
    We had a problem at our house tonite...do we watch Anne of Green Gables ....or A He-Man Christmas?! Decisions, decisions, decisions!

  • I've just come out of my post-Halloween sugar coma!!! So here goes my Halloween parade..... Greyden the Reptile The Lion and the Reptile with Gramma. Before the pumpkin carving...the green one is the one Caleb grew this summer. Our little collectio ...
  • Creative Show
    So I haven't even posted about going to the Creative Show yet. I coerced mom into going with me for a girl's day, something we haven't done in a really long time. There was alot of beautiful things...we could have gotten into alot of trouble with our hubby's, so we ...
  • Lucky Day!
    I just got this call today..... Congratulations to our 2008 winners: $450 Steam Press compliments of Singer Canada Allyson Susko, Ajax ON it's not a serger but I'll take it!!! ha ha
  • Happy Thanksgiving!
    Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! I hope everyone has a wonderful, relaxing weekend spent with family and friends! I thought I'd do a list of some of the things I am thankful for....(this is not all inclusive!!) - the time I have spent on maternity leave...it has all ...
  • New beginnings
    Caleb had his first day of school yesterday. What a day! He got up in the morning and immediately wanted to put on his school clothes. He was so excited, this is something we've been building up to all summer. It was a half day in the afternoon, so we spent the mornin ...
  • Dude....Suhweet!!!!
    Stash that is. Amanda and I had an awesome time at the Stitch n' Pitch in T.O last week. We swapped and gawked more than we knit, oh, and we did catch some of the game to. I've uploaded some pics to Flickr so you'll have to check them out. Special cheers to Haley from ...
  • Take me out to the ball game.....
    I'm so excited! I'm meeting Amanda today to go to the Stitch N' Pitch in Toronto. Its going to be so much fun! I'm picking her up right after work and we are going straight there. When I spoke to her yesterday we were not sure what projects we were bringing. Amanda to ...
  • I'm Back!
    Holy Smokes has it been so long since I last posted. Last time I posted I was suffering ridiculous pregnancy insomnia, the time posted was 4:49 am! ACK! Happily since that time, our beautiful baby boy, Greyden Kenneth Jack was born on Valentine's Day. Labour was very ...
  • Itchy feet...
    I've got itchy feet...well I think I've had them for some time, but I think I've finally resigned myself to a cold hard fact. I think its time to break up with my blog, I've been thinking about it for a while now. Sorry, its you not me. I keep visiting all these othe ...
  • Makes you wonder.....
    I was just wondering who the pregnant one is in the house!? After dinner tonite, Caleb started asking for dessert. After telling him we didn't have any dessert, he cuddled up to me and asked for cake. I told him we had no cake. Then he asked for ice cream. I told hi ...
  • Holy....
    Pardon my french...but Holy crap! In case you missed it on Ravelry, they've posted the world's biggest yarn stash. I couldn't help but show it to Len, with the clarification that its NOT a yarn shop he was looking at but someone's basement. It's bigger than many yarn ...
  • Ho Ho OH!!
    We took Caleb to the Santa Claus parade tonite. Unfortunately, we were pretty mellow about getting there, so we just saw the tail end of the whole thing. Santa passed, and I enjoyed the amazing look on Caleb's face, as he watched his very first sight of Santa for the ...
  • Its about time...
    Yay, I'm part of the "cool" crowd... "Hey there, frecklegirl has invited you to Ravelry! "Here you go! Thanks for your interest in our little site." Now I just need time to actually really use the site. What I've peeked at so far looks pretty neat. However, I' ...
  • New and Exciting News
    Some of you already know this news but its time to tell the rest of the world... We're having another baby! We're pretty excited about this, personally I think I'm most excited because I'm not so sick any more. Somebody told me that this is because your body remem ...
  • Is 3 am a good time for anything?
    So then is 3 am a good time to blog? I'm awake and vertical and (well duh!) at the mac. I awoke an hour ago to traverse the obstacle course of sleeping cats on the floor to go to the bathroom. Now I'm awake, because, after tucking myself back in I couldn't go back to ...
  • A holiday in pictures....mostly
    Heading north to Pancake Bay Provincial Park 76 km's north of Sault Ste. Marie. We got ambitious! ..but we did it in four hours, including stopping at the lookout, lunch at the waterfall and swimming! Overlooking the final resting place of the Edmund F ...
  • Guwoulf......
    ...that was the gargantium sucking sound that engulfed my entire month of June. At work, I was on the planning committee for a big conference we hosted at Trent U, so that completely sucked up the entire beginning of the month, and the rest has been in recuperation. W ...
  • New Favourites....
    I'm so excited, I've got a new website to post to my favorites.....www.ottermere.com. The funny thing about it, is growing up at Ottermere we had no hydro, no flush toilets only outhouses, and we had woodstoves to keep us warm in the winter. In the summer, we drove 2 ...
  • Cold, Wet and Tired.....
    But I've got new wool to keep me warm. So what did I do this weekend.....? Spent the afternoon at Ikea, where I bought a beautiful red rug....bye bye Homemade rug Stood in line to see Stephanie Pearl-McPhee encourage knitters to resist and fight the stigma of CHO ...
  • Death by DPN
    There will be no shame, no horror, no throwing of dpn's....I finished the sweater I was crocheting for the Walk of Hope. I stayed up last night and put the edging on it, there was NO WAY I was going to be doing crochet amoung 200-300 knitters!!! Its a pattern. I've ...
  • Toronto Bound!
    Only knitters will get this one, but I'm going on a pilgrimage to worship at the altar of all things knitted. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee is coming to Toronto for the launch and book signing of Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: The Yarn Harlot's Guide to the Land of Knitti ...
  • What's Happening....
    I just updated my facebook to say, "Allyson is between Little Miss Sunshine and Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself. This afternoon we showed Little Miss Sunshine to the highschool students from our four county area, and tonite we are screening Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself. ...
  • Why I hate bathing suits!
    Jamie and I have made a pact to shop for bathings suits together this season....that is, assuming of course, we were not drunk at the time - to decide to wear bathing suits this year, or that we won't conveniently get lost on the way to the store and end up at the pub ...
  • Tie one on
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  • Book Giveaway!
    Hey check it out...At the csa blog she is giving away three copies of Shear Spirit in honour of International Year of Fibre. Go click & enter! Apparently this is a must have book for fibre lovers!!