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I just posted another one of the medium wool/alpaca weavings in my shop. It's my favorite weaving (and seems to be everyone else's favorite too!), but I'll only be making about one of these a month in order to give me time to experiment with new weavings & to work on commissions 😊 💕 #weaving #weaversofinstagram #handmade (at www.etsy.com/shop/secretwoolsociety)
Yarn Dyeing With Acid Dyes
Recently I decided that I needed to learn yet another skill (because apparently I needed more hobbies in my life), and signed up for a yarn dyeing class at my local yarn shop. There were really a few reasons for this. First, I thought it would be a fun and interesting skill to learn. Second, I thought if I liked it, it might be a way to save some money on sock yarn (I seem to always be drawn to…
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May 2015 Garden Update
Let’s ignore the fact that it has snowed twice in the last week in my garden (I guess it is still May and I’m in Calgary) and check out what has been going on in the garden lately.
Lots of adorable things are showing their faces this week (hence all the close up photos!). There are the pink muscari, a few tulips (I do not remember ever planting bright orange tulips, so where did they come from?!…
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Living With Cats
I decided to take a break from writing about gardening and crafty projects today to talk about cats.
I am a cat lady. And I’m the first person to admit it. I’m not a crazy bag lady type of cat lady, but I do love being surrounded by cats. My husband and I live with three cats and we often joke that I’d have more if I could (I’ve been banned from visiting animal shelters as everyone knows I would…
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I'm Obsessed With Weaving
I think the title says it all, but I am truly madly deeply in love with weaving (but not that Savage Garden song. Okay, maybe a little). I’ve been weaving like nobody’s business. I even signed myself up for a weaving challenge on Instagram (follow The Weaving Kind on Instagram if you want to participate. Or just follow them, they post beautiful weavings).
When I first started knitting, I really…
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What I'm Growing: Prairie Crocus
Spring seems to really have arrived this week – things are greening up nicely and the trees are getting their baby leaves. And one of my favorite early perennials, the prairie crocus, has made an appearance! The prairie crocus has many names: pasque flower, prairie anemone, prairie smoke, wind flower, and I’m sure I’ve missed others. It is always the second flower to appear in my garden (the…
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April Etsy Shop Update
An April Herd of Cats Etsy shop update with 4 new apron styles!
For some reason sales have been slow since Christmas – I’ve had a few custom orders from people I know personally, but my Etsy shop has been pretty dry. Luckily the dry spell came to a close over the last week, which was good because I had been slowly working on a few new aprons to add in, so timing couldn’t have worked out better! These new patterns have been added in to the shop now:
I’ve been…
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Yarn Swift, The Smartest Purchase This Year
Maybe the title of this post says it all, but trust me, if you are a knitter, crocheter, weaving, whatever, save yourself hours of frustration and swearing and just buy a yarn swift. I really don’t know how I got by until now and I have no idea why I resisted. I think it was because I just didn’t want to spend the money. Also, I’m not really into the gimmicky things. But I had a few Etsy sales in…
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Casual Fridays Part 6
New Casual Fridays blog post is up where I discuss Earth Day, the X-files, and my tiny indoor tomato farm!
I haven’t done a casual Fridays post for awhile – and since I’ve been under the weather this week, I just haven’t really had a chance to do much in the way of gardening, or cooking, or crafting. But I have had lots of time to sit around reading the internet! Here are a few things I found around this week that I really enjoyed:
1. You Grow Girl on Earth Day. I was driving to work on Wednesday…
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Look at these little tomatoes! #greenthingswatch #yycgardens
Early Spring in Alberta
Early Spring in Alberta - What's Growing In My Garden
Unfortunately I’ve come down with a spring cold, so while I’d prefer to be outside cleaning up my beds, planting my spinach and radishes, or just enjoying the lovely weather, I’ve been stuck inside feeling terrible and living in front of the television (it doesn’t sound that terrible, but trust me, it got old after the first day). Anyway, before this curse arrived, I was able to get outside and…
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What I'm Making: More Wool Wall Weavings
So a few weeks back I wrote about making my first wee wall weaving. Since then, I have been weaving every chance I get. I made several more of the wee weavings (follow me on instagram if you want to see all my weavings), but I also started my first large weaving. I had considered purchasing another peg loom, but I instead decided to try out Loom & Spindle’s“small” loom (which I love! I just need…
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Things I Wish I'd Known When I Started Gardening
Things I Wish I'd Known When I Started Gardening, plus a before/after shot of my back yard!
I’ve been gardening on my own for about 12 years now (I also dabbled as a kid, begrudgingly helping my Mom in her garden, but does that count?). Anyway, my first year or two of gardening on my own was pretty easy – I lived in a rental that already had a huge area ready to go for planting whatever I wanted, I just had to pull a few million weeds and plant some seeds. Another bonus about that…
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What I'm Cooking: Meringue Dream Cake
What I'm Cooking: Volume 1, Meringue Dream Cake
I love to cook. If you know me at all, you definitely know this about me. What you may not know about me is that I have a very large collection of cookbooks (I dream about the day I will have somewhere to store them all in the same place). And you may also not know that I have a mildly out of control obsession with Pinterest. Put all of that together, and I constantly have a unbelievably long…
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What I'm Cooking: Roasted Potato & Bacon Salad
Roasted Potato & Bacon Salad
I don’t know about you, but I’m one of those people that cringes every time I see a cold potato salad drowning in mayo. I get dry heaves just thinking about the smell and the texture and biting down on to one of those barely cooked crunchy onions. Just nasty. I’ve hated potato salad ever since I was a kid. I used to be a picky eater, and I ended up getting rid of most of my food qualms as an…
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Garden Update: April 2015
What my garden looks like in April 2015!
Words cannot express how excited I am to be heading back in to the garden for a new season! I’ve got all sorts of plants growing inside of the house (peppers, a few brassicas, marigolds, and I will be starting my tomatoes this weekend!) and I find myself sneaking glances at the back yard whenever I can, imagining it bursting with life and color in just a few short months.
It really doesn’t look…
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What I'm Making: Wee Weaving
My Wee Wool Wall Weaving!
Recently I decided that I wanted to take a weaving course at my local yarn shop. This is a bit of an unusual thing for me to do because I am a bit of a recluse. But when I saw the course, I immediately signed up so I wouldn’t have a chance to think about it and back out (I guess I know myself pretty well). I am a pretty introverted and awkward person. There is nothing wrong with this and I kind…
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