Gourmet hand painted yarn. Feed your inner fiber fiend.
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The foods that bind us

• apples • blogging • cookie recipes • country life • country living • culture • dating • faith • family • farm • food • friends • gifts • Holidays • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • personal • recipes • relationships • shopping • women • yarn

I made twenty dozen of these scrumptious cookies to send off to loved ones this Valentine's Day.  A chocolate-based cookie, I used premium bittersweet cocoa powder, doubling the amount the recipe called for.  In addition to a standard dose of semi-sweet mini chocolate chips, I added one bag of large Ghirardelli bittersweet chocolate morsels so that each cookie would have one or two extra chunks of premium bittersweet chocolate. With other interesting ingredients like whiskey and coffee, these cookies seemed the perfect choice for a Valentine confection. Everyone who received them seemed to agree. I gave my husband his own...

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A walk in the city

• art • country life • country living • dogs • faith • family • farm • friends • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • pets • photography • Photos • shopping • snow • thoughts • travel • Upstate New York • women

My latest tribute to Etsy sellers ... a Treasury titled, "A walk in the city." Here we are on the farm, out in the country enjoying a beautiful winter of abundant snow, cold temperatures ... beautiful weather and cozy times in the house. However, feeling a touch of cabin fever I imagined for a few minutes that I was driving and walking along city streets. Side Bar: The smell of homemade bread is wafting its way through the house, from the kitchen, reaching me here in the livingroom ... mmm.  Just a sec, I have to take it out and...

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The year of faith

• art • country life • country living • dating • dogs • faith • family • farm • friends • friendship • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • personal • pets • photography • Photos • relationships • romance • snow • spirituality • thoughts • travel • Valentine • women

Five years ago today I woke up not knowing this man or this place existed. Actually, that is not entirely true.

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Purple Heart - A Treasury at Etsy

• art • blogging • children • country life • faith • family • flowers • friends • friendship • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • personal • photography • relationships • shopping • thoughts • travel • Valentine • Valentine's Day • women

A great way to help bring attention to a favorite Etsy shop or item is to create your own Treasury list ...

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Titles elude me at this moment

• art • Christmas • country life • country living • culture • dogs • faith • family • farm • farm life • fingerless gloves • free knitting patterns • friends • friendship • hat patterns • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • New York • personal • pets • photography • Photos • relationships • scarf patterns • shopping • snow • socks • spirituality • style • thoughts • travel • vintage • yarn

Take a minute, if you are a knitter, and think about how many knitters there are around the world and then multiply that by some number that seems reasonable to predict how many hand knit gifts will be made this year ...

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