
Green Tea Powder (
matcha) is IMPOSSIBLE to find. After visiting every "crunchy" store south of Hartford, I caved in and bought a powdered green tea mix made by Lipton (which turned out to be crystallized tea that smells like mint). As I was pulling out of the Shaws parking lot I noticed…
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Added by Brenda on February 16, 2008 at 6:24pm —
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Before I met Conor, Valentine's Day actually had significance in my life. I'd pretend to not care about the commercial holiday but really deep down, I was wishing I had a valentine. I would secretly hope some secret admirer would reveal themselves by buying me chocolates or sending me flowers. The truth is, I don't even like flowers that much and if I really wanted chocolate, I'd buy some myself.After I met Conor, I didn't feel the need to put so much energy into one day. Now, it's just an excus…
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Added by Brenda on February 14, 2008 at 8:00am —
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I dread the drive to work but this makes it a little better.
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I'm making some progress on Blustery. More details in the next post.
By the way that's Mango Pickle Down River by M.I.A. featuring…
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Added by Brenda on February 11, 2008 at 10:00am —
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Sorry I've been MIA. I had a great weekend in upstate NY and Northampton. I saw Neko Case for the 2nd time on Saturday night and it was incredible. She truly is my favorite musician. She sings so effortlessly. One second she's joking around and the next she's belting out a great song. I also love that she has such a great range. Just compare the songs she does with the New Pornographers to her solo stuff. The song that probably did it for me was " I Wish I Was The Moon". I remember seeing some r…
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Added by Brenda on February 6, 2008 at 10:00am —
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Our original plan was so make these
awesome cupcakes to ring in the new season of
Lost. The problem was, we could not find those tiny toy airplanes anywhere! So we ended up with these:…
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Added by Brenda on February 1, 2008 at 10:00am —
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I keep having dreams of returning to my old job. It's creepy and I don't want to look into it. Also, never heard back from the boutique. All is well though, I've been applying to at least 3 jobs a day. Something's got to stick. I may start looking in New York. I could always commute until I've saved enough to move there.Onto knitting!
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Added by Brenda on January 30, 2008 at 10:00am —
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Pattern: Simplicity - Builty By You 3964 by Built By Wendy
Fabric: Black Cotton and an
Alexander Henry print

I think this will be my final Built By Wendy pattern. I'm ready to move on! I love this shirt. I'm not thrilled with the sleeves because they're not really sleeves. Just pieces o…
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Added by Brenda on January 29, 2008 at 10:00am —
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Pattern: Deep V Argyle Vest
Source:
www.eunnyjang.com
Yarn: Jaeger Extra Fine Merino DK
Needles: Clover US 4 circular
When I knit my gauge for swatch for this, I was spot on. Right yarn, right needles, right tension. Perfect! Right? Well, not so much. After a few rounds, I noticed that the stitches looked slightly longer in the actual project than in the swatch. I took out my needle gauge and sure enough, my stitches per inch had gone up…
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Added by Brenda on January 29, 2008 at 10:00am —
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I got the dress form. Thanks mom and dad!
Now all I have to do is learn how to design. By the way, this is the new shirt I'm working on. I just need to add the sleeves and hem the bottom tonight.…
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Added by Brenda on January 27, 2008 at 12:00pm —
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I'm in love with this fabric. It's so bold and vibrant. It reminds me of Spain. I'm currently making a shirt. You can sort of the make out the pattern in the next photo:
It is that…
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Added by Brenda on January 27, 2008 at 10:00am —
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I have a hard time saying Stitch n’ Bitch. I can type it all I want and say it in my head but to say it aloud?? Can’t do it. I feel that way about most knitting terminology. I can type out FO, WIP, LYS but I would never say “eff oh” or “finished object”. Maybe because I’ve never really hung out exclusively with knitters. I prefer to refer to the SnB as a knitting group. Of course then, it sounds like I’m going to a Knitters Anonymous group. “Hello, my name is Brenda and I’m a knitter”. I’m over…
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Added by Brenda on January 24, 2008 at 10:00am —
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of an unemployed fresh-out-of-the-university gal. The first week of being unemployed and living with mom and dad entailed getting up at 11am and making Belgian
waffles. This sort of thing catches up with you though. After eating
Belgian waffles for breakfast 7 days straight, you start to look and
feel like a belgian waffle. So now I present to you the yogurt parfait:
So simple, yet so delicious and fun to make. Not as fun as eating it
because let’s
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Added by Brenda on January 23, 2008 at 12:01pm —
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Here’s the thing. I knit and I sew and sometimes I do other things like eat, sleep, and think. I really like the idea of having a place to share these things
but the truth is, I’m lazy. I also hate writing but I always come back
to this blogging thing. If this doesn’t work, I’m done. So, to get
started I’m going to write one post each day and share my various
projects. If I don’t have a substantial amount of posts by February
22nd, then I quit!
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Added by Brenda on January 23, 2008 at 12:00am —
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