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Image of me in my Simcoe Headband by Good Night Day that I knit from recycled bargain scarf yarn.
camping | knitting

Episode 55: Ms. Fixit

Bymichelle March 30, 2022July 27, 2023

Details and links for Episode 55: Ms. Fixit in which I fix a car camping bed, discuss recycled knit projects and plan t-shirt yarn crochet projects.

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Color Craze for a Rainy Day
camping | knitting

Color Craze for a Rainy Day

Bymichelle May 15, 2020July 27, 2023

How I chose the mini skeins, Main color, and mohair combination of stash for my Color Craze shawl by Tamy Gore.

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Image of the sun setting through the leaves of trees near my first solo camping campsite.
camping | knitting

Episode 39: A Very My-So Called Handmade Life Camping Trip

Bymichelle October 21, 2019July 27, 2023

I take you solo camping with me in Episode 39 to the woods of East Texas where I show my Cinamon Regia Pairfect socks, Dirty Lace and Color Craze shawls then hide in my car from an alligator.

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camping | knitting | phoneography | photography | thinking out loud

Roadtrip Knits all Mapped Out

Bymichelle July 18, 2017August 6, 2022

Thanks to everyone who chimed in about how to tackle all my works-in-progress!  I have a plan now.I’ve already cleared my work space by blocking 3 knits yesterday.  Thanks to…

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camping | craft | crochet | family | iphoneographs | knitting | music | photography | running | thinking out loud

Yarn Love Challenge: Intros and Such

Bymichelle February 23, 2017August 6, 2022

The Yarn Love Challenge on Instagram started this month, with intros.  I joined a few days late and threw a selfie up on instagram as Day 1 but didn’t really…

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camping | family | iphoneographs | knitting | linkage

Go! and So She Did

Bymichelle January 29, 2016August 5, 2022

This is it!  The last of my projects from 2015 to post about.  Thanks to my sweet girl for contributing these photos she and her husband took on a recent…

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50mm | camping | craft | doubleexposure | film | instax | knitting | photography | travel

Oh My Smokey Bear

Bymichelle April 15, 2014August 3, 2022

I wanted to meet a bear in the Smoky Mountains.  I’d be wearing my Smokey sweater and it would just be a big bear, and we could sense that we were…

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camping | iphoneographs | phoneography | photography | travel

Tennessee via instagram

Bymichelle July 3, 2012July 27, 2022

 raftmaking  Our streamside campsite.  Clingmans Dome observation deck  Somewhere between Tennessee and North Carolina.  Morning at Cades Cove above and below  Gatlinburg skylift  Pigeon River White Water  Guess Thunderhead, faster…

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camping | knitting | phoneography | running | stuff | travel

Misc. Vacation Photos and the Terribly Deep Thoughts They Inspire

Bymichelle June 14, 2012July 31, 2022

I have lots of vacation photos to sift through and edit but I’m pleased to say not nearly as many as in years past. I really did mean it when…

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camping | linkage | running | stuff | ttv photo

In Praise of Cheap Shoes

Bymichelle April 16, 2012July 27, 2022

This is just a “stuff” post.  But it’s stuff that has really helped me, as a runner, walker, and bi-ped, so I thought maybe I’d share it. My mother was…

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