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Throwback Thursday: The 'Trump was just inaugurated wtf do I do now' shawl

Hello lovelies, It took me a while to decide what I wanted to write about today. My morning started off with yet another suckerpunch to the gut by the Trump Regime. Anyone else think they are playing the 'hold my beer!' game with the rest of the worst of the worst world leaders? Anyhow, I was feeling particularly unimpressed after reading the news, plus I burnt my coffee (yeah I know, first world problems that one) and then had a grumble with Liebling. (Nothing intense, it's been a long week and we are both a bit overworked with everything. We basically grumbled at each other about all the things that were pissing us off, but then both ended up a wee bit sore that we were each causing the other a bit of grief. We're still on speaking terms, lol.) However, this did mean that I started off my day in a rather persistent funk. I inwardly grumbled my way through the first part of my day, doing my chores and my real job. But then I got to have a crafternoon catch up wit...

Slogs, hogs, and yarn porn

Happy Monday everyone! I hope those of you starting your week with the rest of us had a lovely weekend and those of you still on weekend time - well... I suppose that's ok and you should just keep on enjoying that. (I'm not bitter at all!) Honestly this weekend wasn't bad at all as far as weekends go. It didn't start off so great - Youngling was being twelve from the moment she got home from school until we sent her to bed. Saturday fared much better than Friday night, though. We just queued up a bunch of tv episodes, staked out a place on the lounge room floor for each of us to break out a hobby, and had a family chill-out bonding day. I spent most of my time loving on my Rockefeller Wrap . I am rapidly developing a love-hate relationship with this project. The design is stunning, it's art-deco and steampunk and gives me daydreams of clockwork and robots and spaceships all at once. The finished piece is so right up my alley that I knew I had to knit it as soo...