Moving: Fully Loaded

and almost fully unloaded.
Hotels are not good for my blogging – the rooms make me want to lay around and do nothing.
Quick general news:
* I just bound off the second Oyster Bay shawl, I’ll do a proper FO post once I can get it blocked and get some good pictures.
* My brides-maid dress for the [...]

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Moving Day II – Return of the Packers

It is 8:32AM and the packers have already been here for almost half an hour. Yesterday, they were here from 8 to 3 and they packed an amazing amount of stuff (as in our whole basement… including cold room and storage areas… and the garage, and the main floor except the kitchen).
Today they [...]

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Moving I – The Calm Before the Storm

Tomorrow the movers arrive to start packing. Today, we are going about preparing things for that arrival.
Today involves:
*putting things back out that went away for the ‘declutter’ but which we want the movers to pack
*packing our suitcases for the time we will be between houses, which includes prep-ing our carry-on
*emptying things – trash, freezer, [...]

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Projects, Projects Everywhere

and, of course, the camera doesn’t work.
I have started the second Oyster Bay Shawl, in Tickled Pink – which is a really really lovely pink. (Hey Lizzie, did you hear that, I like this pink!) I’m almost half way through the repeats of the main chart, so there is hope for finishing it in [...]

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Oyster Bay 1.0

We fly out of Ontario in 19 days…
In less scary and stress-making news: I finished the first of the Oyster Bay shawls I’m knitting for dad, and I’ve cast on the second.

I had to fold it in half to block it… which is why it is still blocking (I went and reblocked the neck [...]

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