I was talking last night with my friend Tracy who lives in Washington state. She has recently caught the fitness bug and we were discussing ways to help inspire one another in 2008. We’ve decided to start a 16-week couch to 5k plan on January 1.
As we kept talking, she mentioned she wanted [...]

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Ok, so I know it’s a few days early, but 1) I don’t think this list will change much in the next 2 days, and 2) we were discussing on one of my stitching boards how we all did at meeting our stitching goals for 2007, so it got me thinking about it. Honestly, [...]

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I saw this on the blog of my friend Tracy and thought it was too cute.

The Recipe for Melissa

  3 parts Courage
  2 parts Love
  1 part Fun
  Splash of Genius
  Finish off with whipped cream

What’s the Recipe for Your Personality?

I hope everyone has a great weekend. Happy stitching!

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English translation: Word of the Year
This afternoon, my friend Tracy told me about a blog that she stumbled across earlier today. The writer’s most recent blog entry described how each year she picks out her “word of the year” to help inspire and motivate herself throughout the year. I thought it was [...]

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Woo Hoo! I got a couple of toys for my new bike for Christmas. (Thanks, Nick! ) He got me a combination cable lock and a water bottle cage.
Things have been pretty quiet for me this week with my training. I tweaked my lower back Monday morning lifting a couple [...]

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I got some cool new llama fibers for needle felting in the mail today. This is the first time I’ve ordered from Moonlight Llamas. I have to say, I LOVE these rovings! I can’t wait to start working with them. I just love how she packages them in [...]

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Good grief, Charlie Brown! Where does the time go? In my head it seems like I updated my blog just a few days ago, but now I see that it’s been two weeks. Things were so busy at work there for a couple off weeks that all my days [...]

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WOO HOO! Christmas came a little early via the post office.
Nicole made a beautiful crystal scissor fob for me and packaged it in a vintage Whitman’s tin. I was totally shocked when I opened it. It’s so gorgeous! I immediately put it on my brushed stainless Dovo scissors that had [...]

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I had a GREAT weekend! On Saturday, I went and all day open stitch class at my LNS. As per norm, there was lots of stitching, laughing, and shopping. I tried to restrain myself from buying too much, but the owner extended her moving sale which meant kits [...]

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It felt really good to get back to my Weight Watchers meeting this morning. I hadn’t been in 3 weeks due to work and going on vacation. I was down 1.2 pounds this week.
I was actually really surprised to see a loss today. Two friends of mine who carpooled to work together [...]

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