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Simmy
Interests: Knitting, sewing, felting, baking, making dolls, reading, collecting children's books, charity shops, haberdashery departments, chocolate, wool, Japanese food, Indian tea, paper, fudge, rose essential oil, chappatis and dhal, sitting with a group of women and sewing/knitting/talking.
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Hey Rada,
I can't email you but read your lovely comments above. I've changed computers too so lost your address.
Anyway, click on the link on the side bar or contact me through Etsy again please?
Nice to hear from you .....
Simmy
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Goodness, doesn't time fly. Here we are September 2011 and I see that I stopped blogging in June 2009. I kept the blog open as I thought I might come back one day but it just didn't seem to happen. So I've finally decided to stop paying my fee to Typepad but they tell me that the blog will st...
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Nov 9, 2011
Hi, I was just googling how to make sweet potato cakes and I came across your blog. I lived in Japan twenty three years ago (yikes!) and it's been really interesting reading about what it's like with children - I'm actually very impressed about the level of play in their kindergartens and the fact that children walk to school alone..... do remember that but I was in my twenties at the time so it didn't have an impact on me.
Anyway, great blog. I really want to take my children over to Japan - everything is so natsukashi.
End-of-summer sewing
Being in-between countries like this, the end of summer seems to have slipped past me before I've had a chance to catch my breath....We had time for a brief vacation back home, connecting with relatives, and a day or two of bliss at a late summer beach. There were unexpected treasures, like ...
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Mar 15, 2010
I was really lucky to be able to meet Kristin (and stay with her in fact) when we went on our family holiday, summer before last. Her eye for colour is amazing and I agree her Julia wool is gorgeous. I used mine for granny squares in the end.
pick 'n' mix
Now that Woolworth's Pick 'n' Mix is no more*, I have to go elsewhere to satisfy my cravings for impossible but enjoyable choice-making. Once again, I've found it in yarn shade-cards. I am both paralysed and galvanised by beautifully designed shade-cards and some are definitely more seductive...
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