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what will prompt a girl to post faster than you can even say post? even after eon's of blog inactivity? hrmmm. well someone linking to her blog without warning for one ;) so here is the update roll in no particular order... the bed and breakfast pullover cabled cardi is on seaming island i have one sleeve seamed and th other is lying peacefully beside it meditating. i hate seaming. i particularly hate seaming when you have to get all that ribbing with increases to line up...why do sleeves have to be shaped eh? sorry no photo but do you have to see the same no progress shot? again? next up dave and i decided to make pizza for dinner this weekend. we had seen yet another episode of alton brown's good eats this one on pizza and dave has been wanting to make it. but it requires preparing the dough the day before. dave doesn't like to do things the day before. he's an in the moment go to the grocery store 10 minutes before a dinner party kind of guy. so when i h...

for starbucks when a great manager resigns because he's getting too much crap from his boss. a shitton of crap from the guys upstairs and not a whole lot of help. we like to try to set our team up for success. but we don't try to set them up for failure. and that is what has been happening! i'm probably gonna hear something 'cause i'm posting this but it's got to be said. since april i've been working in the second busiest store in central florida. until recently we were beating out all the others in our district. this means we have to work hard. really hard. just to keep up. forget about getting ahead. keeping things shiny clean? no way. shoot for passable. cause you can't really do much else. there's not enough time it is impossible to stay on top. when you're understaffed. when you can't get labor hours. when you have only 2 team members in the store for 2 hours at a time! you barely get things done. and the bosse's boss. well she laid...

i've been working on this sweater right? and i've finished the sleeves seamed the shoulders struggled through the collar and tried it on and dave says the collar looks funny. but the colors are really pretty on me... nice after note hon. it's solid any hoo. i need reassurance or the cold hard truth. cables in the collar or no? the patterns calls to continue them but i'm not so sure it looks right. of course switching to ribbing would look wierd too. sigh...

that wasn't enough sewing for you? is this place a sweat shop or something? cause that is what i'm starting to think :) remember my blocking board turned sewing board? well there are 4 pattern envelopes up there. kate and i picked out fabrics for most of those cute little outfits, a quilt, and a crib skirt for her soon to be bouncing baby girl. who we will call batman. parents choice i swear. some people call their unborn children peanut or something cute like that. they said batman one day and well for dave and i it stuck. this kid will be batman til she graduates college so help me! anyhoo i am losing focus here. this bin is full of fabric. my mission (i was silly enough to accept it) is to turn all that into adorable little dresses, bloomers jumpers and overalls. oh not to mention i agreed piece a quilted duvet cover and appliqué on nifty little birds and trees for a bed skirt. oh me oh my what have i done??? but don't you worry. i am having a ton of fun. i have...

thats right no love machines here i exist only to sew :) and someone is not too happy about it... neige doesn't seem to think that sewing and photographing the evidence is a worthy use of my time. she's been following me around and "hmphing" at me lately :) i finished up mom's christmas present a couple of weeks ago. we picked out the fabric together after she decided that she needed a new summer robe. he rold one was about 10 years old. yes i agree. she needed a new one. so here it is! isn't it fun? i edged the robe ad sleeves with a nice mottled mustard color and decided to do the tie and pockets with the same. it took a while to figure out the construction on this puppy. the collar was way more confusing than i thought it was going to be but after an emergency trip to jo-ann to visit the nice lady who sold me my machine i figured it out. then i whipped up the coordinating bottoms in about a second. that has got to be the easiest pants pattern i hav...

so what do you do when you manage to get a couple days off cause you're nearly dead but not quite and you just can't sleep any more? you knit of course! you get out the comfy pj's and all the extra pillows, you let the dog have dave's half of the bed, and you break out the needles and pattern. but first you open the blinds to let in the smidgen of sunshine making its way in between the rain-clouds, you bird watch out the window with your new bird book (purchased because the one dad lent you (published in 1983) doesn't tell you what those one all grey wading birds are out there), you keep the cell phone handy just in case someone decides to call (which they only do when the phone is forgotten in the other room), oh and you also move the small television in from the office (after dumping all of dave's laundry off the dresser into a basket first) oh damn laundry. oh well i'll wash some stuff before work tomorrow. yes i have to go back tomorrow but i think...

i was so gonna take a million photos and post this week while dave is gone for a conference...and i had to catch the flu/cold/whatever it is that is going around. just imagine half sewn baby clothes for my friend kate, a half completed sweater pulled out of the UFO bag of shame, hogwarts socks more than half completed, and another pair for myself struggling to be more than just toes. i'm working on stuff i swear. i just have to get up the energy to get out of bed. oh and when i do they expect me in at work today. ugh. 2.5 hours till shift is too late to call in huh? damn. photos soon i swear. til then try to guess which sweater i'm working on :)