Free Knitting Pattern: Double Round One Skein Scarf

10:52 AM
You can find images on Ravelry! CO 200 R1 Knit R2 Knit wrapping yarn twice around needle for each stitch R3 Knit into double wrapped yarn once(don’t increase stitches) Repeat Rows 1-3 until desired width. To finish, K5, then BO the rest of stitches except for the last 5 which you will knit. Unravel the knitted stitches on...

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Monkey Business

11:21 AM
Tommaso seems to be growing quite of collection of scimmie (that's monkeys in Italiano). Pictured from left to right are:Freecycle monkey puppet, Tommaso's first monkey from our cousins Anna Maria & Frank(plays twinkle twinkle little star and his cheeks light up), Macy's monkey that Tommaso picked out for his 1st birthday, monkey from the Wayne County Fair won...

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My life

$293

11:16 AM
Scored some great bargains yesterday while shoe shopping...for $150 I scored 3 pairs(Nine West, Enzo Angiolini & Betsey Johnson) of shoes for me and 2 (Stride Rite) for the little guy. I saved $293 off the original prices! ...

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More Road Trip Photos

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Road Trip Day 5

9:59 PM
Tommaso slept in today....but then he had no nap....but he did go on the potty...so, er...emm.Went to Mass at St. John the Evangelist, followed by yet another trip to WallyWorld! It was an overcast rainy day. (As I type this, it is thundering and being quite stormy.) We lunched on Spaghetti alla Sepia and dined on Chicken stuffed...

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Road Trip Day 4

5:42 PM
So much we wanted to do, but when you have a bambino around, plans always need to be flexible. Today we fed the fish in the pond some stale bread. ...

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Road Trip Day 3

11:22 PM
Well, we went to the fair today. I'll let the photos tell the story. ...

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Road Trip Day 2

11:55 PM
By 8 am, Tommaso had me back on schedule, insisting it was time to “EAT! EAT!” his daily oatmeal with apple sauce and ‘uva’. After breakfast, all the adults got their screen time in…have to check the email and facebook updates, y’know. Tommaso received some tribute today: a new scimmia(he screeches when you press his pancina), a dinosaur...

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INOX ICE CREAM SPOONS

11:52 PM
yet another example of Italian genius ...

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Road Trip Day 1

11:30 PM
It was a busy morning as we prepared for my road trip with Tommaso. We left the house at 3:00, survived the SUREKILL(er, I mean Schuylkill) and made it to Allentown,PA by 4:40. Early dinner at Chianti Italiano RistoranteWe had an Appetizer of Calamari FrittiAwesome Bread…I think we had three baskets worth. The bread alone was worth the...

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Trippingly off the (baby's) tongue

6:47 AM
Tommaso is adding more and more words to his vocabulary. Just now he said mela, which means apple in Italian! So here is the official list of words my 19month old says in no particular order.mela (apple)graziethankspleasebye byemamma (mom)papa`(daddy)nonno(grandfather)nonna(grandmother)Elmo[ugh]uva(grapes)uvetta(raisins)si(yes)yeahnofelluh ohhothidogbusall doneeyeswhere ishere it isbookpappa(pablum)headhatballbubblemineducklightshoeschaircarcaccaclean upboomscimmia(monkey)pesce(fish)Gesu`(Jesus)JesusHe also blows lovely kisses to all those he loves! ...

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Treasury Love

7:56 AM
My Etsy shop, DesignDolcezza, is featured in two treasuries!Take a look:http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list_west.php?room_id=50338http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=51920And don't forget to enter my circus ticket giveaway by commenting on that particular post by clicking here! ...

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Knitting

FP Clapotis

7:51 AM
I started Clapotis (from Knitty.com) 1 month before Thomas was born and I finished it last week :)Here it is hanging on my clothes line! ...

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Philadelphia Ringling Brothers Family Four Pack Give-a-way!

7:49 AM
I have been authorized by MomCentral to provide coupon discount codes and to give one family four-pack of tickets away for opening night(May 13@ 7pm). The winner will be able to pick up their tickets (with a Picture ID!) at the will call window the night of the show.Enter by commenting on this blogpost with your First Name,...

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Achieving sour-ness

8:00 PM
Well, my experiment is 3 days old. It didn't seem to be doing anything after the initial fizz from the yeast. So I did some more research yesterday. After reading some other people's blogs about growing a starter, I discarded a cup of my current starter and then added a cup each of flour and water. It has...

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Wild Yeasts couldn't tear me away...

7:21 PM
So, after having my breadmaker for just over a year, I've decided to take the plunge. Following the recipe on the KingArthurFlour website, I have mixed together sugar, water, yeast and whole-wheat flour(of course) in the hopes of catching ''wild'' yeasts and creating my very own sourdough starter. This is supposed to take from 2 to 5 days...

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My Giraffe

5:52 PM
Art Card has landed in an etsy treasury! Here's the link:http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=33981 ...

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