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Month: March 2009

  • I started knitting up a baby surprise jacket for my neighbor across the street. She just had a baby boy, I'm so excited for another baby friend for Tutu. While I was trying to get Tuesday to model the jacket I realized if I wanted her to have one I had better start on it ASAP. Here is our new friend's: (with vintage buttons from great grandma's box) And here is Tuesday's: (with random buttons from the box because I didn't have enough to match) I love knitting these out of Socks that Rock Mediumweight. It…

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  • Wanna see what 2 months looks like? Awe she's so cute even when she is Miss Cranky Pants. Okay now a good one: Her eyes are still quite grey, but turning more blue. Her smile is brighter than the sun. No one wakes up as happy as Tuesday Lee, I'm sure of that. She loves life. We swaddle her at night and she has at least one good stretch of sleep (5-7) hours and then feeds and has another shorter one (usually 2 hours). I always hope for a little bit more but usually that's it.…

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  • I love Etsy. I have a lot of favorite stores on there, and now I have another: momonomo. I found her by going from blog to blog, you know how it goes. She featured an awesome hirigana quilt (a Japanese alphabet) on her blog. She mentioned that she was hoping for orders for them so I contacted her. My quilt arrived Monday. I should say Tuesday's quilt. Bj and I got it to hopefully fuel a love of languages (we both took Japanese in high school). (you read this from the top right, and then down…

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