back to school sweater

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I finally finished Sosi’s back to school sweater. I think I knit this more for me than her. I worked out a lot of my anxiousness about her starting school with this sweater! Thankfully she seems to not have inhertied my shyness or social awkwardnes and is making lots of friends and having fun.

Now I get to start a little dress for Ila. She’s well into Sosi’s hand me downs these days,  which are seriosuly lacking in the dress department. Ila would wear a dress everyday if she could, so I better get busy (if you have any cute pattern suggestions let me know!).

(The pattern for this sweater can be found here, I’ve knit this one so many times and I still love it.)

distractions…

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I’m missing Sosi like crazy. I feel silly for being so sad,  as she’s been going to preschool for over 2 years. Something about this feels different, like I just put her on a path that’s going to just take her farther and farther away from me each year, and there’s no turning back.

I keep thinking about the movie Ponyo, how her dad squished her inbetween his hands and magically turned her back into a fish when she was changing herself into a girl. I wish I could squeeze her and turn her back into my little baby. She’s so eager to grow up.

I’ve been distracting myself with work. So happy to be part of an upcoming show with the Jupiter Project. Here’s a sneak peek.

a night out…

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I had a great night out last night at the Opening for the Out of Purgatory Show at the Confederation Centre. The show runs until October 4th. If you are in Charlottetown you should go and check it out, there are so many great pieces. I was beyond happy to see my piece was chosen to represent the show in the Centre’s Fall brochure. (wow!)

just the 2 of us

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Sosi and Paul have been crazy about biking the Confederation Trail (or the Trail, as we call it) this summer. He usually takes her after supper to give me some time to myself.

She is unstoppable, and usually returns bragging of fox sightings, of how beautiful golden time (golden hour) is and of biking all the way to the airport!

The other night we headed out just the two of us for the first time.  I couldn’t believe how peaceful and beautiful it was… and how close it is to where we live! I haven’t biked much since we moved here, and I’m realizing how much I miss it. I used to boot all over Vancouver with Sosi on the back of my bike. It’s quite something now to look over beside me and see her little smiling face.

We didn’t see any foxes, but we did spot some bushes full of gigantic rosehips and stopped to pick them. Our mother daughter adventured continued on the next day when we decided to make jam from them. We used the recipe for Rose hip Jam from “Apples for Jam“. I didn’t know what to expect, but it turned out pretty good.

I love when Sosi and I have alone time like this together. Such wonderful and unexpected things always come out of it.

happy barns

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My barn paintings have been selling over at the lovely Cottage Industry shop here in Charlottetown. This  makes me so happy… mostly because I got to paint more barns! We dropped these happy little ones off today.

where did summer go?

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I’m trying to wrap my head around the fact that my little girl is starting school in little more than a week. She’s growing up so fast… it’s breaking my heart. She’s even started not wanting to hug me as much anymore,

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thank goodness I have this little one who I can hug as much as my heart desires.

off island adventures

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Usually when we take a trip to Halifax it’s pretty much centered around eating at places we can’t eat here and shopping for things that we can’t get here. This time we decided to try and actually see some of the sights. I came back without any cute new clothes but we did see some lovely things and had some much needed family fun time.

101 things to make with zucchini (well, 2 actually)

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The past couple of weeks at our CSA pick up I have been helping myself to the  grab box full of zucchini. I keep asking Jen to tell me if I ‘m being too greedy, but she seems genuinely happy with my zucchini enthusiasm. Here are a couple favourite recipes we’ve tried this last week.

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Chocolate zucchini cake.*A cup and a half of oil seemed a lot to me, I put in less and it was still really rich and moist.*  This cake is insanely delicious… and yes, this is how I get most of my photographs. There is almost always a child standing on the table.

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Cream of zucchini soup. I made up this recipe up. I sautéed garlic, 2 potatoes (cubed) and 3 big zucchinis(chopped up) in olive oil, added some stock and let boil for a bit. Then I blended it up with a hand blender and added a bit of milk and some parmesan. The kids and my husband both loved it… that doesn’t happen too often.

Happy zucchini eating!

a little peek

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My piece for the Out of Purgatory show is almost finished… I think I might be a little heartbroken when it’s all done. I’ve loved every minute of working on it. Here are a couple of little peeks for you.  Happy weekend!

*The yarn I’m knitting with is the “samoyed” yarn from Belfast Mini Mills. Last time I was there they told me there is a lady in the states who has a ton of these dogs, brushes them and sends them the hair. They make all their yarn there. I will do a post about them soon. It is maybe of of my favourite places to visit here in P.E.I. *

why haven’t i ever done this before?

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I ‘ve been working away on my piece for the upcoming Out Of Purgatory Show here in Charlottetown. Every artist particpating in the show has submitted a piece of artwork that they were not able to finish. The pieces were then  swapped, and you get to finish someone else’s art. Terrifying… but so much fun.

I received mine a few months ago and it has been sitting here just staring at me. After lots of failed attempts, I decided to knit something. Why have I never done this before?  Knitting + art= pure happiness.

a week with norete

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She hasn’t even been here a week and look at all she has done. The woman is a force of nature.

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She has cooked,

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and baked,

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(she even arrived with a box of freshly picked  B.C cherries from their tree)

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she has sewn matching princess dresses (with some help),

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purchased a new addtion to our family (Bello, the fish),

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and she’s gone and sewn me this completely amazing skirt (that I have been dreaming of sewing for soo long… but never had the time… or brain power to tackle, DW I still have your pattern btw, heh heh…) .

*The skirt is designed by Martha at UN , from the winter 2008 issue of Stitch. *

Everyone should have a mother-in-law like this.