this week we’re in charleston, south carolina for a week on vacation! it’s been very restful and fun so far. lots of naps and trips to the beach. THE BEACH! IN NOVEMBER! amazing, right? even the water temperature is pretty nice seeing as tropical storm ida has brought up some warm water to us.
i’m staying offline as much as possible except for updating flickr everyday and checking in on twitter every now and again. i’m getting a lot of knitting done which is exactly what i wanted to be doing on this trip. my parents are here too and they are taking the time to watch C and entertain her so that i get some time off from being the full-time mommy. it’s been super nice.
we’ve also been going out almost every single day and touring what charleston has to offer. yesterday, we went to middleton place plantation and walked the grounds. i bet that place is just gorgeous in the spring! even in november it’s beautiful.
we hope to make it to the aquarium tomorrow since the weather is going to go south on us.
also, if you clicked through from the RSS feed, then you’ll see that gleek.net is redesigned! i moved over to wordpress from movabletype last week. now it’s so much easier for me to write posts and keep the site updated. i plan on writing a post detailing how i made the switch. hopefully all the links on the site work and you won’t have to update any of your bookmarks, RSS feeds, or links because i worked out how to redirect them all. let me know if you see any problems.
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you know, i swear that i’m going to do everything in my power to go to rhinebeck (NY sheep and wool festival) every year. it was the most fun i’ve had in ages! and i was kid free too. good times.
i met a lot of people and put my camera to go use taking photos [...]
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well, really, four shawls if you include the one i knit for popknits but since i already blogged about that i’ll just concentrate on these three. so summer knitting is always a little tough. who wants to be lugging around a sweater’s worth of wool when it’s 90 degrees outside? so smaller projects for the [...]
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wow, it’s been a long time, no? i was supposed to come back here and let you know about the last knit i finished, ishbel, but i never checked back in! i have no real excuses except that i really have not felt like blogging. it’s been tough watching a lot of my favorite people [...]
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hi everyone! been a while, no? first thing’s first, if you haven’t already seen it, the summer issue of popknits is online and available now! definitely check it out when you get a chance.
i know that there’s been a lack of knitting on the blog lately and a lot of hooping. well, i’m glad that [...]
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it’s been how long now since i started hooping? let’s check flickr… ok, i got my hoop on march 5 so that means i’ve been hooping for less than 3 months now. this weekend was the first time that i got more than 2 days in a row to go outside and hoop on grass [...]
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maybe you’re sick of hooping, but i’m not i actually have very little knitting content to show you right now because i just finished a secret popknits project (not so secret anymore) and just started knitting on ishbel. in the meantime, let me expound on my trip to central park to hoop with [...]
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i love new york in spring time. the trees and flowers bloom. everyone seems to have a spring in their step!
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continuing on with my hooping, once i learned to move around and turn, i really wanted to learn corkscrews. this is the move of going from your waist up to halo and then back down again. it’s really fun and fun to watch. the only problem was trying to do halos indoors. the play area [...]
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before i get to corkscrews, i thought that i would list out some resources in case you want to try hooping too. first, if you’re thinking about buying a hoop, check out all the comments on flickr from my friends who have also picked up hooping. there are lots of great indie sellers online and [...]
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