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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain 
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee 
The Call of the Wild(G.I.C.) - Jack London  
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett 
~READ ALOUD~ 
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children - Edith Nesbit 
The Adventures of Reddy Fox -Thornton Burgess  
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For those of you who may have followed my crochet blog, (which was recently merged with this one), you know my plight about learning to knit. Well, Flower Picker has been pretending to knit with two pencils… no yarn – she’s just rubbing two pencils together at the tips. :-{ So, I decided that would be our [...] This week was a 1/2 day school week. We have a two-day assembly this weekend, and I always like to sew new things for the girls and I to wear. I made myself a skirt and shirt (that’s a first for me!) and I made a skirt and dress for Face. Flower Picker was in [...] I wanted to show off the dress-up dresses I made for the girls last month. Nothing fancy, but they don’t seem to care! Well, for starters, I’ve added a new category – Sewing! Yup, yup, this crocheter sews, too! Well, let me rephrase - I have owned a sewing machine for 17 years. In that 17 years, the most sewing I’ve done to date, was cloth diapers. I sewed diapers for 3 years. I never had proper instruction, so most [...] It’s a skill! I was watching an old episode of Knit & Crochet Today and there was an interview with Nikki Epstein. She made the comment, “Knitting isn’t a hobby; it’s a skill!” That rang bells for me. It’s true. Crocheting (and knitting) are skills. You have to really work to hone those skills. The more you [...] Loitering online -that’s what I call “surfing”. Surfing requires some sort of skill or strategy – loitering is clearly just hangin out somewhere with no real purpose, and that’s how I internet. Anyway, as I was loitering, I stumbled onto this: Now, as a crocheter, I have found, and fell in love with [...] A friend of mine, who works at our local library, is reading the book, Stone Soup, to a group of small children. We made: I’m Knitting! The first question is… what? Yay! I’ve just finished up my oldest DD’s tank top. DH says it’s too wide, so I see some altering in my future, but she loves it! She loves the color – which is awesome, since she is the one that picked it out. I’ve been working on a few things at once lately. I’ve started my Banana Bay top, which I’m loving! |
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