Welcome! Today I have a little bit of knitting and a little bit of gardening to share. Here is my most recent FO, a sweet little scarf that was just as fun to knit and it is to wear. I finished this in time to take to Carmel for a quick weekend trip with the girls. The weatherman says it will be a...

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 Thank you for hopping on over! I have a spring inspired dinner party to share today and some gardeny stuff at the end. It was our turn for the monthly Second Friday Friends Group. My menu was inspired by what would be good and easy and springish to serve a group of 12. My colors were inspired by the green hellebores and yellow...

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 First off--I love this, even though the entire time I was knitting it I was fretting over the color and the style. I wondered if I could pull this crazy thing off, but turns out that now that it's done, it's really not crazy at all. It's super easy to wear and feels more like a wrap then a cardigan, and the color...

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Welcome California spring! We always gets a head start with February and March being our early spring months. The roses are leafing out. The camellias are blooming. The narcissi and daffodils are also in bloom. The flowering magnolia is magnificent and we are even getting some spring rains. Hallelujah. I took my cue from nature and started the earlier seeds last month. Next...

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I have a new warm and cozy sweater in my wardrobe and I loved the yarn so much I ordered two more sweaters worth. It's on sale! Half price! Read all about it...... ...

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Today I have knitting, not cleaning, to share. I have been sick and so cleaning has been pushed aside, but between naps I was knitting. I felt pretty low for a while but since I'm feeling so much better, I went out to lunch yesterday with the birthday girls and wore my new sweater. It was a sunny day and this sunny color...

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My challenge this week was to not only throughly clean the hallway, the living room and dining room but also to make some sense of the contents of the living room cupboards, all nine of them. This is how I came to be on my hands and knees all week and also emptied out numerous buckets of dirty water. It will never cease...

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