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Really good read
- it's a small R romance/epic fantasy. Really interesting characters whogrow and change with the story line. Nothing happens that doesn't advancethe story line. And while it is a love story, it's not...
 
Forgot to share this
Wandered into the local consignment shop on the unending quest for a small wall hung display cabinet the other day. Struck out on that front but I spotted some color in the pile of linen to one side...
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OT - Mini-Whine on Jobs
So, just thought I'd share a small whine. After waiting 3 weeks for the "formal offer from HR" - once again - no job. The very nice HR chief sent me an e-mail - essentially saying that their corporate...
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Yarn/Wool question - not entirely on topic
My mother recently gave me the stockings she knitted for my sister and I about 50 years ago, but they are badly discolored. The white and light colored areas are yellowed and they generally look...
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Queensland Floods
I don't know if there is anyone from Queensland on this site, but please know that we are thinking of you & wishing you well. Sandy
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Cleaning Petit Point
I'm working on a partially finished petit point piece that's travelled with me through a couple of moves and 20 years of being pulled out and put away again. It's DMC thread on 32 ct. silk mesh and in...
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Re: Your ALL really pathetic
If YOUR subject line said "You're ALL really pathetic", YOUR IQ would appear higher.
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Going on my first cruise - knitting question from an old-time poster
My DH is reading all the documents & giving me tidbits of information as I try to work ... Can I take circular knitting needles, with a project on them, on the cruise ship? (Royal Caribbean Monarch of...
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Happy New Year to all!
Hope you all miss the `flu (which wiped me out for Christmas week despite having had the injection in October!) Hope that 2011 brings everyone all they hope for and nothing that they don`t want! I had...
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OT - Another Birthday
Today is Tia Mary's birthday. Happy Birthday, Mary!! Janet
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OT: Happy Birthday to
TM and her kitties lol Joan, please lead the choir ?
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Well unless something changes
I'll be done with the Baby Dragons for Margaret by the weekend. I'm back stitching Y now (or would be if DS wasn't playing video games). I figure I'll be starting Z by tomorrow night at the latest....
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New reading
Found two "new to me" authors to share The Unquiet Bones by Melvin Starr like Hugh - He's gentle and sort of innocent despite being a surgeonin medieval England. Excellent plot, seems well researched...
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OT: Happy Birthday to
Dr. Brat - hope she calls past today :) ~ there, rare smiley for her!
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Maybe a useful tip.
I have been finishing off other people's UFOs for a few months. I have got back to my piece; a waterlily, for which I produced the pattern with Pattern Maker. So the pattern is on 12 sheets of paper....
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