January 2011

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Lucky Day Diary Jan 30, 2011

Another lovely day – bright and sunny and just a little below zero – this in itself is lucky…plus…. 1. Did a three mile walk today. I always consider being able to do these things very lucky! 2. Fortunately, the 18-year-old hung in there and wrote up the essays for which he had done the […]

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Lucky Day Diary Jan 29, 2011

It’s Saturday and a lovely bright and sunny day, though a little cold; but my luck today was…. 1. Fortunately, the ladder was in the house and not frozen outside somewhere, because that meant that I could wash the bathroom ceiling – what a lucky break  🙂 2. The Globe had a little article and

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Guerilla Crochet

Crocheted Car Cover by Agata Oleksiak Just when you think that you’ve seen everything, along comes someone like Agata Oleksiak.  I don’t sell a lot of crochet patterns and I don’t think that many people would buy crochet patterns to create things like this! But you have to marvel at the talent, endurance and moxey

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Lucky Day Diary Jan 28, 2011

Filligree from Woolly Wormhead Lucky Friday was very active because…… 1. Woolly Wormhead sent me two new patterns. I always love seeing Ruth’s work.  It is so creative, so tasteful and yet so easy to knit! 2. Company is coming for dinner and dinner is made! 3. Nothing like company coming to make you clean

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Of Dryads and the meaning of life…

Dryad from Woolly Wormhead OK, I think that it’s time to move to a higher plane. I know that getting out of parking spots, fixing wiper blades for rear windows, buying Cranberry scones etc… is the stuff of life; but, every once in a while we need to be catapulted out of the mundane, however,

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Lucky Day Diary Jan 27, 2011

I’m having to turn over every stone or chunk of ice to find a little luck in an otherwise dreary week; but…. 1. I managed to fix the windshield wiper on my rear window. The ice build up had pulled the rubber away from the housing.  At first I thought that it was “finished”; but

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Lucky Day Diary Jan 26, 2011

It’s milder today, but a little grey so we may have to work a little harder at being lucky! 1. Fortunately, I got a return e-mail from another knitter who had been at Vogueknitting live.  She also said that Lynette’s entry was fantastic and should have won! 2. My eye exam went well today.  I

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Lucky Day Diary Jan 25, 2011

This has to be a lucky day, it’s Robbie Burns’ day and… 1. Luckily, Kim Finlay posted to my Facebook Wall the fact that an unpublished letter from Robbie Burns had been found under some floors boards in a castle in the South of Scotland. I love these lucky finds! 2. I was able to

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Best of the show…….

…..but one! I just had to show you in detail, Lynette’s submission to Vogue Knitting Live. Out of 100 entries, this was first runner up. All submissions had to be done in mohair, because a South African mohair company was the sponsor. Mohair was easy for Lynette, she works with it all the time. These

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Lucky Day Diary Jan 24, 2011

1. I finally got a chance to look at a video that Lynda Gemmell of Cabin Fever sent me. You’ll love this.  It’s about getting people to climb stairs rather than use the escalator.  It’s all about making things “fun.”   My friends do have some lucky finds. 2. Picture postcard snowfall again today. My car

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