Wednesday, November 24, 2010

HSKS 12 Spoilage!!

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Gifties for my girls: Wizarding bags with their names on them, Slytherin pride stickers, Slytherin bookmarks, and floo powder (edible ;) )

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MY Wizarding bag. It's covered up, but has my name and looks like theirs, only black. Filled with coffee, soak samples, CIRCUS PEANUTS!!!!!!! Dementor's Kiss candies, and a "Horcruxes Got Soul" bumper sticker
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Closed shot of my handmade item. Wait... It gets COOLER!!!

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Ta-da! It's a secret quill holder!!! Filled with quills of all colors!!!

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"Snake in the Grass" sock yarn with the Nagini pattern (not photoed)

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Owl Ribbon, which WILL find many more purposes, an Owl iron on, fridge magnets and stitch markers.

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Ready for my close up, Mr deMille...



Tuesday, November 23, 2010

maddy.

(theme for this and the following post shamelessly stolen from The Pioneer Woman)

she is...
stubborn
opinionated
beautiful
loud
growing up so fast
wise beyond her years


she is not...
complacent
"girlie"
shy
anything one would expect her to be
a happy reader
a morning person

Saturday, November 20, 2010

I've been MIA...

But I'm back! Here's what I've been up to:

We took the girls to have their Christmas photos taken.
I re-organized the craft room:

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I finished my MIL's Sweater for Christmas:
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And my parents' blanket for Christmas:
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And my FIL's scarf for Christmas:
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And a pair of socks for me. It's recently been pointed out to me that during times of trauma, I cast on for socks. So, since I was dealing with a pretty big-assed size trauma in the past few weeks, I knit these:
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Oh! And we had Halloween, too. We went to Lucy's for Halloween, and walked around her neighborhood to trick or treat. The girls were princesses, Jake was a three hole punch, and Lucy and I had our towels handy, just in case!
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Monday, November 1, 2010

Anagrams

  1. SPARSE VENUES = Severus Snape
  2. GO UNLOAD LOVE = Luna Lovegood
  3. A MOTH SEDAN = Thomas Dean
  4. FLUSH CIGAR = Argus Filch
  5. SLICK AIRBUS = Siruis Black
  6. DUMB ANALOG = Ludo Bagman
  7. A DRY MOO-CALF = Draco Malfoy
  8. UNSNAP THE SKI = Stan Shunpike
  9. PIT-A-PAT RIVAL = Pavarti Patil
  10. AN OLD JEER = Lee Jordan