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    Episode 5: The Slow Life

    Bymichelle March 2, 2018July 27, 2023

    Episode 5: The Slow Life is about just that plus I show my The Edge sweater by Alina Scnieder. I talk about Alina’s designs, look through KnitScene Spring 2018 together and Stillness of Trees.

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  • family | iphoneographs | phoneography | photography | places | thinking out loud

    Perfect Day

    Bymichelle July 28, 2017August 6, 2022

    Here’s what my perfect day in Galveston looks like.  First, you get in the ferry line early enough to eat brunch at Mosquito Cafe.  We like the walnut crusted brie…

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  • family | knitting | phoneography | photography | thinking out loud

    Collecting Myself

    Bymichelle July 6, 2017August 6, 2022

    Will you sit with me a minute as I collect my thoughts and work on Gather?  I am missing my friend and am a little numb, so I’m going to…

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  • Christianity | family | parenting | photography | thinking out loud

    Grandmommy

    Bymichelle June 28, 2017August 6, 2022

    My best friends are together now.  I am happy for them, but I’m still sad for me.  I don’t feel up to composing a post that is worthy of her…

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  • 50mm | family | kal | linkage | phoneography | photography | places | thinking out loud

    Waterrock

    Bymichelle June 2, 2017August 6, 2022

    Let me start by saying these photos are kind of the pits.  Ocean spray, as in the ferry- not the juice, got on my lens and it wouldn’t cooperate the…

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  • family | iphoneographs | knitting | parenting | photography | places | thinking out loud

    Hello, Nature

    Bymichelle May 9, 2017August 6, 2022

    This is my written ode to the trees that keep me sane.  How I have missed you!  Come to mama. I need to be out of doors.  Truly.  It was…

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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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  • family | iphoneographs | kal | phoneography | photography | thinking out loud

    Grandmommy’s Hudson

    Bymichelle February 11, 2017August 5, 2022

    Feyre isn’t the only shawl from Very Shannon that I’ve been working on recently.  I also ordered a crap-ton of Cascade Eco from Craftsy, when I ordered the marled Patons,…

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  • 50mm | craft | family | knitting | phoneography | photography | places | thinking out loud

    Find Your Fade

    Bymichelle February 9, 2017August 5, 2022

    I wasn’t always comfortable with trusting my instincts, and I don’t just mean when knitting a piece of clothing.  Sometime, within the last several years, I have shrugged off the…

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    Only a Little Sock Monkey-ish

    Bymichelle February 3, 2017August 5, 2022

    You know how I’m a big fan of Shannon Cook‘s… everything?  Well, her Feyre shawl is no exception.    I’ve been keeping this worsted weight, marled yarn just for this…

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