tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90192562024-03-07T09:44:51.388-08:00a-chan knits!aimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.comBlogger194125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9019256.post-26010259369948598762014-08-21T16:18:00.000-07:002014-08-21T16:18:10.936-07:0050 books, late summer updateAnother year, another list. 50 still seems to be my magic number, so I'm sticking with it. I started the year with a re-read, which is a bit surprising since I've been so good about reading new (to me) books.<br />
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I started with Herland because of David Brin's Glory Season. He got some of his ideas from Herland, so I thought I'd refresh my memory. Do not read the sequel, it's not as good.<br />
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I feel good about the list so far. There are some "hard" books, some easy, and some middle of the road.<br />
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<strong>January</strong> <br />1 Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman <br />2 Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman <br />3 With her in Ourland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman<br />
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<strong>February</strong> <br />4 In the Mothers’ Land - Elisabeth Vonarburg (translated by Jane Brierley) <br />5 Forbidden - Ted Dekker/Tosca Lee <br />6 The Silent City - Elisabeth Vonarburg (translated by Jane Brierley)<br />
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<strong>March</strong> <br />7 The Broken Dragon - Irene Radford <br />8 The Summer Before - Ann M. Martin <br />9 Number the Stars - Lois Lowry <br />10 The Shadowhunter Codex - Cassandra Clare <br />11 Love Medicine - Louise Erdrich<br />
<strong>April</strong> <br />12 Startide Rising - David Brin <br />13 Panic - Lauren Oliver <br />14 Fantastical Ramblings - Irene Radford <br />15 The Birthday Ball - Lois Lowry <br />16 Twins - Caroline Cooney <br />17 The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman <br />18 The Terrorist - Caroline Cooney<br />
<strong>May</strong> <br />19 Chicory Up - Irene Radford <br />20 Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye, Lois Lowry <br />21 The Spindlers - Lauren Oliver <br />22 Guardian of the Balance - Irene Radford <br />23 The Goddess Test - Aimee Carter <br />24 The Goddess Hunt - Aimee Carter<br />
<strong>June</strong> <br />25 Liesl & Po - Lauren Oliver <br />26 The Goddess Interrupted - Aimee Carter <br />27 The Goddess Inheritance - Aimee Carter<br />
<strong>July</strong> <br />28 Mortal - Ted Dekker/Tosca Lee <br />29 Odd and the Frost Giants - Neil Gaiman <br />30 Sneak - Evan Angler <br />31 A Corner of the Universe - Ann M. Martin <br />32 The Same Stuff as Stars - Katherine Paterson<br />
<strong>August</strong> <br />33 Storm - Evan Angler <br />34 Orange is the New Black - Piper Kermanaimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9019256.post-72390947675413770082014-08-15T16:30:00.000-07:002014-08-21T16:10:43.407-07:00Sabrina's Barn Raising Quilt, finally<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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together and I didn’t want to take it with us.
I’ve been collecting STR Lightweight minis for a few years with the
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knit “Zest” because of all the citrus trees in Hawaii. Then there was “Cockcrow” because we stay at
my mother-in-law’s house and there are usually confused roosters crowing
throughout the night and day (surprisingly, this year there weren’t any, the
neighbors must of got rid of them). </span></span><br />
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is a bit obscure. One of our favorite cold
treats is this dessert item found at Maui Mall.
It’s called Guri Guri, but pronounced “goodie goodie.” I was surprised when I pulled out a mini
called “Goodie Goodie”! It was like Blue
Moon Fiber Arts knew I would need these and named them appropriately! </span></span></div>
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pulled out “Dragon Dance.” The one
Chinese restaurant we would always go to on Maui was called Dragon Dragon. It closed earlier in the year and we were
super bummed. But I still knit a square
in honor of it! </span></span></div>
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way home I worked on “Twitterpated” because traveling with a 2 year old is
just nuts.</span></span></div>
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I'm finally getting around to blogging about this wreath I made my brother and sister-in-law for their housewarming present. What can I say, I'm busy!<br />
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$7 housewarming present! It's not the price, but the thought that counts, right? I wish I had time to make a little plaque with their last name on it.<br />
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For this wreath, I used one of the flying discs, like a frisbee, but with a hole in the center. I wrapped that with ribbon, secured with packing tape. Then Sabrina helped me hot glue the slippers to the frame. I followed up by reinforcing them (because her gluing skills need some work, the trigger is a bit stiff for her fingers).<br />
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Next, I took a piece of ribbon and looped it around the bottom of a slipper, and around the back to hang it from (I don't like big bows and wreaths hanging from a giant ribbon. (perhaps I'll take a picture of how I do these hoops)<br />
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After that, I took a lei held in the back and pushed through the whole between the skippers (to cover any of the frame). Use hot glue to hold it in place. <br />
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The final stage was just gluing the decorations on. Somethings wouldn't glue where I wanted them (like the dolphin to the shovel) and I had to improvise. I'm really happy with this and it's still hanging on their door almost 2 months later.<br />
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First, I'd like to say that I wish I was good a blogging. I see lots of excellent crafty blogs that are updated regularly. I think I've come to the conclusion that I'm just not that kind of person. And I accept that.<br />
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Second, I was very crafty last night! I made a super secret project for a housewarming present for my brother and sister-in-law. They recently moved back to our home town of Scappoose! While it's all exciting and stuff, it also is sad because they are now 45 minutes away instead of 15. Boo! It also means I'll probably be spending more time out in Columbia County.<br />
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Since I can't show that picture until tomorrow, I've shown you the summer wreath I made last year. It had fallen off the wall and the kids pulled pieces off. Since I had the glue gun out, I fixed it up with some new do-dads from the Dollar Tree.<br />
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And here's how it looked at the beginning of last summer:<br />
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<br />Through out the summer I had added a few more little pieces. but that's the gist of what it was. I guess I need to take a better picture of the new version.<br />
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You can find some of my inspirations on my <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/chiapetdiz/so-wreathie/" target="_blank">So Wreathie Pintrest board.</a> (they're towards the bottom)aimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9019256.post-66366898396239382612014-02-07T08:00:00.000-08:002014-02-07T08:00:05.819-08:0050 books in 1 year: 2013Another late 50 Books post...<br />
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Last year, almost everything I've read was a new to me book. In fact, I think only 5 books are rereads and 3 of those are ones I've read out loud to Sabrina.<br />
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New this year, I'm including audiobooks. I've never included them before because, well, I don't usually listen to them. They're great for on the train knitting! But kind of a pain to check them out from the library.<br />
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I feel like I'm all over the place with this list, but it's been fun bouncing around from YA to fantasy to sci-fi to some Native American lit.<br />
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Goal: Just keeping track, but 50 would be great<br />
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<b>January:</b> <br />
1 Castle Roogna - Piers Anthony <br />
2 Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris <br />
3 A Dance with Dragons: Dreams and Dust (book 5, part 1) - George RR Martin<br />
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<b>February</b> <br />
3a A Dance with Dragons: After the Feast (book 5, part 2) - George RR Martin <br />
4 The Game of Silence - Louise Erdrich <br />
5 Midnighters: The Secret Hour - Scott Westerfeld <br />
6 Midnighters: Touching Darkness - Scott Westerfeld <br />
7 Midnighters: Blue Noon - Scott Westerfeld<br />
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<b>March</b> <br />
8 Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson <br />
9 Beezus and Ramon - Beverly Cleary (out loud w/Sabrina) <br />
10 Sundiver - David Brin <br />
11 Peeps - Scott Westerfeld<br />
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<b>April</b> <br />
12 So Yesterday - Scott Westerfeld <br />
13 End of Days - Scott Westerfeld <br />
14 Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare <br />
15 Clockwork Prince - Cassandra Clare <br />
16 Clockwork Princess - Cassandra Clare<br />
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<b>May</b> <br />
17 American Gods - Neil Gaiman <br />
18 Janie Face to Face - Caroline B. Cooney <br />
19 Ramona the Pest - Beverly Cleary (read out loud w/Sabrina) <br />
20 Eye of the Heron - Ursula La Guin <br />
21 Thistle Down - Irene Radford<br />
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<b>June</b> <br />
22 Delirium - Lauren Oliver <br />
23 City of Bones - Cassandra Clare <br />
24 The Last Dragonslayer - Jasper Fforde <br />
25 Ramona the Brave - Beverly Cleary (read out loud w/Sabrina) <br />
26 The Antelope Wife - Louise Erdrich <br />
27 City of Ashes - Cassandra Clare <br />
28 Pandemonium - Lauren Oliver<br />
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<b>July</b> <br />
29 The Round House - Louise Erdrich <br />
30 Requiem - Lauren Oliver <br />
31 Eragon - Christopher Paolini <br />
32 The Porcupine Year - Louise Erdrich<br />
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<b>August</b> <br />
33 Chickadee - Louise Erdrich <br />
34 My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece - Annabel Pitcher (audiobook, read by
David Tennant) <br />
35 City of Glass - Cassandra Clare <br />
36 Maniac Magee - Jerry Spinelli <br />
37 Stardust - Neil Gaiman<br />
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<b>September</b> <br />
38 Eldest - Christopher Paolini <br />
39 Hounding the Moon - P.R. Frost (Irene Radford) <br />
40 City of Fallen Angels - Cassandra Clare <br />
41 Thimble Summer - Elizabeth Enright <br />
42 Moon in the Mirror - P.R. Frost (Irene Radford)<br />
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<b>October</b> <br />
43 Faery Moon - P.R. Frost (Irene Radford) <br />
44 Silver: Return to Treasure Island - Andrew Motion (audiobook read by David
Tennant) <br />
45 The Silent Dragon - Irene Radford <br />
46 The Song of the Quarkbeast - Jasper Fforde <br />
47 Forest Moon Rising - P.R. Frost (Irene Radford) <br />
48 City of Lost Souls - Casandra Clare<br />
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<b>November</b> <br />
49 Luka and the Fire of Life - Salman Rushdie<br />
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<b>December</b> <br />
50 Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman <br />
51 Glory Season - David Brin<br />
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After making sure I was starting at the right side, I knit across. The last stitch in each row was knit together with the "live" stitch on the side so I won't have to seam up the sides when I am done. You can see in the above picture that the right side is not very nice looking. I didn't notice that my knit 2 together on the wrong side was creating that weird bumpy thing until I was mostly done. I am so not ripping it out and knitting it again. The left side looks lovely, so it's just going to stay. Maybe after washing it will look better?<br />
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The next step will be to pick up the stitches across the bottom of the next section. I plan on doing a 3 needle bind off on the back side. I hope it works!<br />
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I finailly did it! Actually, I went over!<br />
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Goal:50<br />
Total:53 <br />
<b>January:</b> <br />
1 Farmer Boy - Laura Ingalls Wilder <br />
2 Little Men - Louisa May Alcott<br />
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<b>February</b> <br />
3 Jo’s Boys - Louisa May Alcott <br />
4 Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austin <br />
5 A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin <br />
6 Northanger Abbey - Jane Austin <br />
7 Tales from Planet Earth - Arthur C. Clark<br />
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<b>March</b> <br />
8 City of Masks - Mary Hoffman <br />
9 Messenger - Lois Lowry <br />
10 A Larger Universe - Gillaspy, James <br />
11 The Black Pearl - Scott O’Dell <br />
12 A Spell for Chameleon - Piers Anthony<br />
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<b>April</b> <br />
13 City of Stars - Mary Hoffman <br />
14 Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin <br />
15 Island of the Blue Dolphin - Scott O’Dell <br />
16 Mr. Popper’s Penguins - Richard Atwater<br />
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<b>May</b> <br />
17 Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain <br />
18 The Borrowers - Mary Norton <br />
19 The Borrowers Afield - Mary Norton <br />
20 City of Flowers - Mary Hoffman <br />
21 The Borrowers Afloat - Mary Norton <br />
22 The Borrowers Aloft - Mary Norton <br />
23 Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver <br />
24 The Borrowers Avenged - Mary Norton <br />
25 City of Secrets - Mary Hoffman<br />
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<b>June</b> <br />
26 City of Ships - Mary Hoffman <br />
27 Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe <br />
28 The Plague of Doves - Louise Erdrich<br />
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<b>July</b> <br />
29 A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin <br />
30 Earth - David Brin<br />
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<b>August</b><br />
31 The Source of Magic - Piers Anthony <br />
32 Storm Glass - Maria V. Snyder <br />
33 Gossamer - Lois Lowry<br />
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<b>September</b> <br />
34 I am the Messenger - Markus Zusak <br />
35 Otherness - David Brin <br />
36 Confessions Of An Ugly Stepsister - Gregory Maguire <br />
37 Mirror Mirror - Gregory Maguire <br />
38 Lincoln’s Dreams - Connie Willis<br />
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<b>October</b> <br />
39 A Storm of Swords- George R.R. Martin <br />
40 Sea Glass - Maria M. Snyder <br />
41 Spy Glass - Maria M. Snyder <br />
42 Pippi Goes on Board - Astrid Lindgren (out loud with Sabrina)<br />
43 Troubadour - Mary Hoffman <br />
44 Swipe - Evan Angler <br />
45 City of Swords - Mary Hoffman <br />
46 The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman<br />
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<b>November</b> <br />
47 The Face on the Milk Carton - Caroline B. Cooney <br />
48 The Willoughbys - Lois Lowry <br />
49 A Feast for Crows- George R.R. Martin<br />
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<b>December</b> <br />
50 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien <br />
51 Whatever Happened to Janie? - Caroline B. Cooney <br />
52 The Voice On The Radio - Caroline B. Cooney <br />
53 What Janie Found - Caroline B. Cooney<br />
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Year in review: I read a lot of young adult books, but I also read a lot of books for the first time this year. Usually 75% of what I read is books I've already read before. I'd like to blame the library. I keep finding more and more books to read. And I'd like to blame my coworker who gives me "must reads" all the time. I'm extremely happy to finally have met my goal last year. <br />
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In the future: Well, that's right now and a post for another day. aimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9019256.post-42083874720522552532014-02-04T16:20:00.000-08:002014-02-04T16:20:37.475-08:00When good projects go wrong...<h2>
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A long time ago, I knit Sabrina a baby blanket. Not just any blanket; an Oregon Ducks log cabin! So awesome!<br />
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Or not so awesome... I used scraps from my stash. I thought they were all acrylic. I really did. Months later, or even a year later, I noticed some pulling in of one section. Uh-oh! Wool. 100% wool. <br />
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Fast forward another 4 years.<br />
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I've been thinking about this blanket every time I see it. It's been washed. And washed. And washed. Every time, I think about cutting the felted section out, picking the stitches up, and re knitting that section. Really? I didn't do it. <br />
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Until last night. Richard was folding clothes and came across the blanket. The deformed blanket that my daughter loves. He says, "Can't you fix it?" and I immediately accepted the challenge. I picked out a new green, found a darning needle, some extra yarn in a light color and some very sharp scissors. <br />
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2 hours later:<br />
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It was late. I was tired. I may have snipped a stitch I shouldn't have, so I'll have to fix that as well. Tonight, I'm going to try to re-knit it.aimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9019256.post-43809324883862908132013-10-01T13:55:00.001-07:002013-10-02T13:46:17.728-07:00Sweet Steampunk 16 Party<div style="text-align: center;">
The first time Keylie made an apperance on my blog, she looked like this:</div>
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I can't believe she's 16! </div>
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For her birthday, my SIL Erin and I threw her a steampunk party! Thank goodness for Pinterest! I knew of steampunk (thank you anime and Back to the Future 3), but I had never gotten into it. We were totally overwhelmed at first. </div>
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This was one of my projects:</div>
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I got the ides from several different places, but mainly <a href="http://www.cupcakesandcutlery.com/the-cutest-ruffled-streamers-from-plastic-tablecloths/">ruffled streamers from Cupcakes & Cutlery</a>.</div>
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Between the two of us we come up with some pretty awesome stuff! Our Aunt T and cousin Katie seriously helped us pull it all together in the hours leading up to the party.</div>
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ps. I was hoping to be able to pin from the pictures here, but I guess I need to figure that out better. I got it so I can pin from flickr, but they won't pin while on the blog... (still working on it...)</div>
aimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9019256.post-41794258395582751102013-09-27T14:02:00.000-07:002013-09-27T14:02:42.069-07:00a post In where I catch up<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Let's be honest here. It's been over a year since my last post. Well over a year. Does anybody even read blogs anymore?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'm finding myself wanting/needing to share some things. So here I am. I debated starting all over, new blog, new focus, new everything. Well, I can't decide on a name. My most creative idea was "aimee's wonderful crazy" and the one I was going to go with was "a-chan knits & stuff". Not real original. Dropping the knit for my name? Hmmm, that's still my main craft these days. But I've been doing so much more! From baking to wreaths to party planning and sewing, oh my!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I suppose we can get reacquainted now. Sabrina is 5 and just started kindergarten. I don't know how that happened. But she adores school. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Elias is turning 2 on Halloween! My baby is not a baby anymore!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Coming soon (if I don't forget...):</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Keylie's sweet steampunk 16 party</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My birthday camping trip to Crater Lake that I forced my family to take with me.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">50 books in 1 year updates (last year's complete list and this year's read so far list)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Stay tuned!</span></span>aimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9019256.post-16727565101813154482012-06-14T12:26:00.001-07:002012-06-14T12:52:24.648-07:00Perler bead bowl<style type="text/css">
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<span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/7187386931/">Perler bead bowl</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/">a-chan</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="flickr-caption" style="font-size: small;">I<a href="http://www.wooz.dk/?page_id=2611"> found this project</a> on Pinterest, where else? It's pretty self explanitory, but the directions were in Dutch so I googled "perler bead bowl" and got a bunch of hits. The one I kind of followed was this one. This was easy enough for Sabrina to help me with, but I still had to help get the beads in a single layer.</span><br />
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<span class="flickr-caption">Some tips I found around the net:</span><br />
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<span class="flickr-caption">The oven temp does not have be be exactly at 400F. I did a different batch at 300F and it worked just the same.</span><br />
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<span class="flickr-caption">Use any dish that can go in the oven for different shapes and sizes. I used a small IKEA baking dish for mine, Sabrina used a Pampered Chef small glass measuring bowl. My second one was a cheap silicone dish in the shape of a heart. </span></div>
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</div>aimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9019256.post-9416777134527759242012-06-13T12:54:00.000-07:002012-06-13T12:54:42.632-07:0050 books in 1 year, 6 month updateWell, the year is about half over and I'm over half way there! Yes, some are easy books, but some are long books, too! And a lot are ones I've never read before. I'm loving my Kindle Fire, it makes reading during my pumping breaks super easy. Plus, if I finish a book while I'm at work or on the train, I always have a back-up loaded just in case.<br />
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Every couple of years I go through a Ray Bradbury stage. I'm thinking of doing it again this year in honor of his death; maybe in October. I was going to do the same for Arthur C. Clark but I got distrackted with other things (he has been dead for several years). <br />
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I just started Clash of Kings, I hope it doesn't take me the rest of the month to read. But at least I'm in a good spot in my list. <br />
<br /><b>January</b><br />
1 Farmer Boy - Laura Ingalls Wilder<br />2 Little Men - Louisa May Alcott<br /><br />
<b>February</b><br />3 Jo's Boys - Louisa May Alcott<br />4 Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austin<br />5 A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin<br />6 Northanger Abbey - Jane Austin <br />7 Tales from Planet Earth - Arthur C. Clark<br /><b> </b><br />
<b>March</b><br />8 City of Masks - Mary Hoffman<br />9 Messenger - Lois Lowry<br />10 A Larger Universe - Gillaspy, James<br />11 The Black Pearl - Scott O'Dell<br />12 A Spell for Chameleon - Piers Anthony<br /><b> </b><br />
<b>April</b><br />13 City of Stars - Mary Hoffman<br />14 Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin<br />15 Island of the Blue Dolphin - Scott O'Dell<br />16 Mr. Popper's Penguins - <br /><b> </b><br />
<b>May</b><br />17 Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain <br />18 The Borrowers - Mary Norton<br />19 The Borrowers Afield - Mary Norton<br />20 City of Flowers - Mary Hoffman<br />21 The Borrowers Afloat - Mary Norton<br />22 The Borrowers Aloft - Mary Norton<br />23 Before I Fall - <br />24 The Borrowers Avenged - Mary Norton<br />25 City of Secrets - Mary Hoffman<br /><b> </b><br />
<b>June</b><br />26 City of Ships - Mary Hoffman<br />27 Things Fall Apart - <br />
28 The Plague of Doves - Louise Erdrich<br /><br />Currently reading: Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin<br />Queue: City of Swords - Mary Hoffman (released Aug?)aimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9019256.post-86086037743367224892012-02-17T08:00:00.000-08:002012-02-17T08:00:02.656-08:00Old memeI found this old meme in my "draft" and thought I would publish it. I've updated it, I've read a few more of the books in the 3 years since I originally did it.<br />
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1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.<br />
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.<br />
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.<br />
4) put ? on the ones you've never heard of.<br />
5) Tally your total at the bottom.<br />
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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane AustenX<br />
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X+<br />
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte BronteX<br />
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X+<br />
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X<br />
6 The Bible X (a lot of it, not front to back, though)<br />
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte *<br />
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell *<br />
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman *<br />
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens *<br />
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X+<br />
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ?<br />
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller<br />
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare<br />
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier<br />
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X+<br />
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks<br />
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger<br />
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X+<br />
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot<br />
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell<br />
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X<br />
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ?<br />
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy<br />
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy X<br />
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh<br />
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky<br />
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X+<br />
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X+<br />
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X<br />
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ?<br />
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens<br />
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X+<br />
34 Emma - Jane Austen *<br />
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen *<br />
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X+<br />
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini<br />
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres<br />
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden<br />
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X<br />
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell<br />
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown<br />
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ?<br />
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving ?<br />
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ?<br />
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery X+<br />
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ?<br />
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood ?<br />
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding<br />
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan<br />
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel<br />
52 Dune - Frank Herbert *<br />
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons <br />
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen *<br />
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ?<br />
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ?<br />
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens X<br />
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley *<br />
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon ?<br />
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br />
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X<br />
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov<br />
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ?<br />
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold<br />
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas <br />
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac<br />
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy<br />
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding <br />
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie *<br />
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville<br />
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens <br />
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker *<br />
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X+<br />
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ?<br />
75 Ulysses - James Joyce X<br />
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath<br />
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ?<br />
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ?<br />
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray<br />
80 Possession - AS Byatt<br />
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X<br />
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ?<br />
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker<br />
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro <br />
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flauber <br />
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ?<br />
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White X<br />
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn<br />
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<br />
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ?<br />
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad X<br />
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X<br />
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ?<br />
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams<br />
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole<br />
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ?<br />
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas<br />
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X<br />
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X+<br />
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo<br />
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Total read: 27<br />
Total loved: 12<br />
Total planning to read: 11<br />
Total never heard of: 13aimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9019256.post-80184367276316565652012-02-14T09:25:00.001-08:002012-02-15T10:12:24.825-08:00Hmm... anything else?<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/5933179588/" title="DSC_0652 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_0652" height="500" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6003/5933179588_163c00449c.jpg" width="333" /></a><br />
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I'm trying to come up with some things to bring me up to date with the blog.<br />
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We went to Hawaii again (seems to be a yearly event). And look!<br />
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My mom came with us! It was her first time in Hawaii in like 30 years. It was fun to share our "life" in Hawaii with her.<br />
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Sabrina & Nana:<br />
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The reason for our trip, Richard's cousin (Don) graduated from high school!<br />
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This is the tradition in Hawaii. Everyone piles leis on the graduate. It was kind of fun to watch. Someone holds a sign up with the graduate's picture/name so everyone can see where they are. <br />
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We didn't plan it this way, but our nephew (Alexander Pono, AJ for short... Alex Jr.) was born 2 weeks before we got there. We all had colds, so we had to wait a week before we could go see him. Isn't he cute? He's already crawling! I can't wait to see him this summer (if/when we go).<br />
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It's not a trip to Maui without doing some touristy things.<br />
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Like the Atlantis submarine (first time for this!). Sabrina was just barely tall enough.<br />
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My mom's gotta work on her shaka:<br />
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Uncle Alex took us to the high school's field to play with his dog (Kala).<br />
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And of course we spent time at the beach.<br />
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Shave ice at our new fave stand <a href="http://ululanisshaveice.com/">Ululani's </a><br />
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If you're ever on Maui, this is the shave ice to get! They make most of their own syrups (their webpage says it's now 100%) and they use Roselani's ice cream. Yum! Plus, they started in Portland (who knew, right?) We found out because I was wearing my Blazer shirt one day when we got shave ice and had a good conversation with the owner. <br />
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I take so many pictures, it's hard to choose which ones I like the best. Our first morning there, we took my mom up to Haleakala since it's like one of the #1 THINGS TO DO.<br />
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I really need to clean my camera (I'm a little scared and apparently camera shops won't do it). This is my fave, some people don't get it:<br />
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I guess that's all for now, I didn't realize how long this would get when I started!aimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9019256.post-84434552206621176432012-02-07T08:00:00.000-08:002012-02-15T10:05:26.960-08:0050 books in one year, 2011 follow-upWhen I last left this blog, I was professing how this was the year I was going to make my goal of 50 books. I didn't. But I've come to live with that. With knitting, working full time, and now having two kids... well, it just wasn't a practical goal. This year, my goal is 30 books. I think I can do it, maybe even more. I got a Kindle Fire so I can read while on my pumping breaks. I've already finished my first book of the year and most of the way through with a second.<br />
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Anyways, my last years list looks like this:<br />
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<b>January</b><br />1 Gone-Away Lake - Elizabeth Enright<br />2 Return to Gone-Away Lake - Elizabeth Enright<br />3 The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey - Trenton Lee Stewart<br />4 The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoners Dilemma - Trenton Lee Stewart<br />
<b>February</b><br />5 The Stranger - Alburt Camus<br />
<b>March</b><br />6 The Glass Dragon - Irene Radford<br />7 The Perfect Princess - Irene Radford<br />8 The Loneliest Magician - Irene Radford<br />9 The Wizard’s Treasure - Irene Radford<br />10 Marionette’s, Inc. - Ray Bradbury<br />11 Harmony - C.F. Bentley/Irene Radford<br />
<b>April</b><br />12 Enigma - C.F. Bentley/Irene Radford<br />
<b>May</b><br />13 The Postman - David Brin<br />
14-28. OZ series - L. Frank Baum<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">December</span><br />29. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott<br />
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Not too bad, I guess. This year I'm going to try to read more books I've never read before. I'll still be doing some re-reading. I really want to make my way through LOTRs again and the Earthsea series.<br />
This year's list:<br />
January<br />
1. Farmer Boy<br />
2. Little Men<br />
Currently reading: Jo's Boysaimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9019256.post-35151607264818457912012-02-05T08:00:00.000-08:002012-02-15T10:07:46.909-08:00Rapunzel, let down your golden hair!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVhi7ER4xkZX4ktya9E4-o5UrKlcFbvWzrOOSCfqnIExFS_JLxZDKGSz3nkbXn9TwOB5TOXHG0xGzXTw9MySkf1gnRjLiKehDo_4lepmFCoA-AptQ1VKS7OXjCGyoaD_kFMQbOGw/s1600/295991_10150371707751037_778251036_8150880_782302909_n.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705083589588651762" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVhi7ER4xkZX4ktya9E4-o5UrKlcFbvWzrOOSCfqnIExFS_JLxZDKGSz3nkbXn9TwOB5TOXHG0xGzXTw9MySkf1gnRjLiKehDo_4lepmFCoA-AptQ1VKS7OXjCGyoaD_kFMQbOGw/s400/295991_10150371707751037_778251036_8150880_782302909_n.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 267px;" /></a><br />
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Sabrina loves Tangled. She had been saying that she would be Rapunzel for months. So I bought the pattern (which was over my head since I don't do much sewing). With the help of my aunt and friend, I dumbed down the pattern a bit. It's a pattern for Princess Rapunzel, not the Rapunzel you see in most of the movie.<br />
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If you read the post before this, you know I finished it with literally hours to spare.<br />
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She loves it and that's all that really matters. I got this light pink cord to lace the front up, but it won't stay tied. I finally replaced it with some white ribbon (since she's wearing the dress at least once a week, my mom even let her wear it to church). I might get some better matching ribbon eventually, but she doesn't seem to care.<br />
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If I ever make Rapunzel hair again, I'm going to do it differently. The pattern is wrong in it's measurements, so I wasted a skein of yarn trying to figure it out... cheap yarn, I should say.<br />
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Sadly, Elias didn't get a costume. I wanted to buy one, but Richard said no since he wasn't suppose to be here until November. Next time, I won't listen (not like I'd want next time to be another Halloween baby, 2 scorpios in the house are plenty).aimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9019256.post-40787586899357370442012-02-03T12:22:00.000-08:002012-02-15T10:12:24.812-08:00The best Halloween ever!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVt1U5nwAp0CUf2R7HzpC-TFjoeNnMu5HmZvt_r64MYYFtnMMj8Dk3lOpPe9DCgbzAKYNLlF64L4LrpCnmThJU8-s9AKYrWTvqzKNMBSWcEmQNRmjE7JGD3Iof8XIHmDmBYGwr-g/s1600/299510_10150380692312579_778077578_8418319_1148966760_n.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705008616421684802" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVt1U5nwAp0CUf2R7HzpC-TFjoeNnMu5HmZvt_r64MYYFtnMMj8Dk3lOpPe9DCgbzAKYNLlF64L4LrpCnmThJU8-s9AKYrWTvqzKNMBSWcEmQNRmjE7JGD3Iof8XIHmDmBYGwr-g/s400/299510_10150380692312579_778077578_8418319_1148966760_n.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 301px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
Elias Alanui Yago<br />
10/31/2011, 7:09am<br />
6lbs 9oz, 19" long<br />
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Let's see how short I can make this labor story. I don't know who will even see this, so I'll go shorter than on ravelry, but longer than Facebook.<br />
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I was working on Sabrina's Rapunzel costume until 12am. I didn't have any notable contractions, I'd been having small ones off and on for a week or so. Mostly just Braxton Hicks. Anyways, at midnight I decided I was done enough with the dress for her to wear it trick or treating and we could finish up some last minute things in the morning. I had purposefully taken Halloween off so we could have a fun day, making caramel apples and doing crafts. My last thought as I was drifting off to sleep was "I guess I won't be having a Halloween baby after all." (since my labor with Sabrina was over 25 hrs).<br />
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I woke up 2 hours later in active labor. Richard was sleeping downstairs, but I waited an hour before I went down there. I thought it was going to be a false alarm. I called my mom at 3 something because she lives 45 minutes away and she was going to come and stay with Bina. I called the advice nurse, who told me to drink 4 glasses of water and take a warm bath "to see if it stops" (I told her I was having very painful contractions, but she didn't believe me because I was talking to her through them). My mom got there after 5, she told me I could ignore the advice nurse, but to sip water and take a shower. I knew something was wrong as soon as I got it the shower. If I moved, I would have another contraction. So I got out, slowly.<br />
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I laid on the couch for awhile, my mom trying to tell me to get up and walk through them. (oh boy, this is getting long, sorry!) I told her I couldn't. Richard and her were talking and I yelled at them to stop talking. Then I said, we need to go, this isn't right. My mom gave in. She thought I was being a wuss, but I told her that the worse thing that would happen would be that they'd send me home if I wasn't ready.<br />
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I knew this labor was different than my first. I have a very high pain tolerance, but I was crying through contractions. Part way down the road I realized we forgot the camera... I said "screw the camera."<br />
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The walk down the hall to labor and delivery is a long one. I had multiple contractions, having to lean against the wall. The receptionist called down the hall "do you want a wheelchair" "No, I'm fine." Once we got there, she did a quick and dirty check-in, cuz she realized I was on the verge of having the baby. I kind of felt like I was going to have him right there. They got me into triage, sent me to the bathroom to empty my bladder and get the gown on. I thought I was having the baby on the toilet, so I called Richard in to help me. We had to get the triage nurse to help me into the gown. As soon as I was down on the bed, I wanted them to check me. But first, they had to take my vitals. grr, I felt like I needed to push already.<br />
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In walks my midwife (thank goodness she was there already!) and says "Let's check you" I was at an 8. The triage nurse was talking to me about pain meds, but my midwife cut her off and told me that she had to be honest with me, there was no time for meds .They didn't let me get off the triage bed, they wheeled it down to the delivery room. She checked again (since I sounded pushy) and I was at a 10 and free to push. It's funny how you can go from an 8 to a 10 in the few minutes it took to get to the delivery room.<br />
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They put my iv in between pushes. He was out within 5, 30 minutes after I arrived at the hospital. I tore, rather badly. I was glad they put the iv in, so they gave me something for the pain while they sewed me back up (that took a long time).<br />
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(oh boy, I think this is longer than my story on Ravelry. Maybe I should have just cut and pasted it)<br />
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That's my 5 hour labor story. Lesson learned? Don't listen to the advice nurse.<br />
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My mom didn't believe Richard when he called her at 7:30 to announce Elias' arrival. Richard promptly send pictures to facebook and no body could believe he was here already, especially since they all read my post the night before about finishing the dress.<br />
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Sabrina got to come and see her brother immediately and she also got to go trick or treating with her cousins.<br />
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I feel so lucky to have a Halloween baby. I made jokes the whole pregnancy about how cool it would be (my due date was 11/12).aimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9019256.post-82144710780430959422011-02-03T08:00:00.000-08:002012-02-15T10:08:06.760-08:0050 books in one year, take 3I'm gonna try again this year!<br />
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Goal 50<br />
So far 4<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">January</span>:<br />
1 Gone-Away Lake - Elizabeth Enright<br />
2 Return to Gone-Away Lake - Elizabeth Enright<br />
3 The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey - Trenton Lee Stewart<br />
4 The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoners Dilemma - Trenton Lee Stewart<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Currently Reading</span>: nothing :c<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Queue:</span> Kiln People - David Brin, The Postman - David Brin<br />
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Gone-Away Lake and Return to Gone-Away Lake are old favorites I like to re-read every couple of years. There's actually a picture in Return to Gone-Away Lake that I want to have a tattoo of some day. These were fast reads, but very creative. I was in love with these books before I realized she wrote other (more popular) books, but these are still my faves of hers.<br />
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The Mysterious Benedict Society books are #2 & #3 in the series. This was my first time through them and I truely love them already. I'm just sad I have to return them to my mom. I'll probably end up buying the whole series.<br />
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Next up is either Kiln People or The Postman... I'm leaning towards The Postman since it's a shorter book. I already almost drowned with The Mysterious Benedict Society since those books are so long. I need to remember to read both long and short books this year. Too many long books will take too long (since I still need time to knit and clean and stuff). Too many short books will make me think I'm cheating.aimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9019256.post-83261813499362269062011-02-01T10:04:00.000-08:002012-02-15T10:07:08.815-08:00How Portlandia! (or I've been told)So I found a recipe for homemade lotion while I was browsing my blog reader. I wasn't looking for one, but it jumped out to me on <a href="http://www.helloyarn.com/wp/">another knitting blog</a> (go figure, right?).<br />
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I hate buying lotion, it seems so wasteful and expensive, especially since we have slather Sabrina with Cetaphil every night (it goes on coupon at Costco this month, fyi). I haven't been buying my own lotion for awhile. Last Christmas we got Bath & Bodyworks baskets from work and I had to return everything since their stuff gives me migranes. yuck! They do have 2 unscented lotions, but they're expensive and I'm almost out of the two bottles I got from my return (I returned a whole basket of stuff and was only able to get 2 bottles of unscented. Why is unscented so much more than their regular stuff?)<br />
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Okay, I'm off my rant about B&BW. Back to the lotion. The recipe <a href="http://www.readymade.com/blog/author/shafia/P10/">is here at the ReadyMade</a> Blog. I haven't poked around too much more than the lotion, but I hope the rest of the site is just as good.<br />
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This lotion was fast to make! And free for me! I didn't have any beeswax, so I asked a coworker who makes candles where I could get some. She pointed me to <a href="http://www.ruhlbeesupply.com/">Ruhl Bee Supply</a> in Gladstone, but I wasn't going to be able to get there soon, so she gave me a chunk from her stash. AWESOME coworker of the month award!<br />
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My lotion is semi-local because Ruhl sells only local beeswax. The second local ingredient is good ol' Portland tap water. The recipe calls for filtered water, but I would have had to open a new filter cartridge and find the Brita pitcher (for those of you who don't live in Portland, we have some of the best tap water in the country, serious! We don't need to filter our water!).<br />
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The only ingredient that's not local is the olive oil.... Yes, only 3 ingredients!<br />
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Friday night I really wanted to make the lotion, so I scoured Home Goods and Ross for a cheap, small grater for the beeswax. I didn't find what I was looking for at Home Goods (really? no small grater?). I did find one at Ross for $3, score! I also found a jump rope and a cute new dress for Sabrina, all under my $15 limit.<br />
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Back to the lotion (again. sorry). From what I had read about this lotion, some people weren't having any luck and I didn't have high hopes for my first try. After the blending step I still had some water and it just wasn't blending. I ended up draining some off before I jarred it.<br />
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For my jars, I found a lonely jelly canning jar and an old baby food jar (that was housing some pumpkin seeds for next year). You're suppose to wait for the lotion to cool down before putting the lids on, but my lotion was already pretty cool. I waited anyways... but we didn't wait to try it!<br />
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I love this stuff. Sometimes it smells more like beeswax and sometimes like olive oil. Other people have said it smells "natural." I've used some on Sabrina a couple of times and she hasn't had any reactions to it yet, so YAY!<br />
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I don't have any pictures :( I tried to take on with my camera phone, but it just looks funny.aimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9019256.post-21178111695476185012010-12-03T08:00:00.000-08:002012-02-15T10:08:22.883-08:00Another year, another goal not met<b>So far:</b> 23<br /><b>Goal:</b> 48<br />
<b>January:</b><br />1 Waking Rose - Regina Doman<br />2 Midnight Dancers - Regina Doman<br />3 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll<br />
<b>February</b><br />4 The Practice Effect - David Brin<br />
<b>March</b><br />5 Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins<br />6 Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll<br />
<b>April</b><br />7 The Saturdays - Elizabeth Enright<br />8 The Four-Story Mistake - Elizabeth Enright<br />9 Then There Were Five - Elizabeth Enright<br />10 Spider Web for Two - Elizabeth Enright<br />
<b>May</b><br />11 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë<br />12 The Book Thief - Markus Zusak<br />
<b>June</b><br />13 Gathering Blue - Lois Lowry<br />14 The Prince of Omeya - Anthony Fon Eisen<br />
15 Anne of Green Gables<br />16 Anne of Avonlea<br />17 Anne of the Island<br />18 Anne of Windy Poplars<br />19 Anne’s House of Dreams<br />20 Anne of Ingleside<br />21 Rainbow Valley<br />22 Mocking Jay - Suzanne Collins<br />22 My Own Two Feet: A Memoir - Beverly Cleary<br />23 The Birchbark House - Louise Erdrich<br />
Maybe I'll reach 50 next year. I don't think I can read 27 books in December (and I mean chapter books!)aimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9019256.post-1313223545766472982010-12-01T15:16:00.000-08:002012-02-15T10:12:24.786-08:00Camping: Take 3<div class="MsoNormal">
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Our 3rd camping trip this year was our annual family campout at Cape Lookout State Park over Labor Day weekend.. I love that place! I think we started going when I was in middle school or early high school. We always have so much fun. I took Sabrina when she was 5 months old (that’s actually been the easiest camping trip I’ve had with her, go fig.). Last year was fun because she was walking and showing some independence.<br /></div>
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However, this year she screamed in the middle of the night for no reason every night we were there. I still don’t know what was up. It’s not like it was her first time camping. We did end up having a good time, but it’s hard camping with Sabrina when Richard isn’t there. (he had to work)<br /></div>
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The weather was nice, we swam in the ocean, took a small hike, rode bikes around, sat by the fire… just general camping stuff. It’s kind of like our last hurrah for the summer.</div>
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And, we took a little class on cooking in dutch ovens. That was pretty cool. The ranger guy that lead it was a sweet boy scout type. In the end we got to sample the food we made: pizza and peach pie. I'll be getting my self a dutch oven before next summer. Of course I took a picture of my piece of pizza:</div>
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I really love this picture. That's my Aunt Teri (Aunt T as all the kids call her).</div>
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That one looks like a good Christmas card picture? I hope J.P. & Erin use it!</div>
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</div>aimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9019256.post-2547304142963463612010-10-13T12:16:00.000-07:002012-02-15T10:12:24.804-08:00Camping: take 2<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/4925105128/" title="DSC_0233 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4098/4925105128_bf918ec517.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="DSC_0233" /></a><br /><br />For our second camping trip, Sabrina and I went to our church camp-out at Metzler Park. Richard had to work, but my my mom, brother, SIL & the kids came. We pulled in and immedietly saw big signs saying "No fires." Apparently there was fear of wildfires.<br /><br />We woke up the first morning freezing! (okay, not really freezing, but we were really cold). Then Mom crawled out of the tent to tell us she forgot breakfast. So we piled into the van and got bagels/cream cheese/coffee in Damascus... or was it Estacada? or ?? We were close to home again, but I hate to admit it... I don't really know the area southeast of us.<br /><br />Then there was Sabrina's sleeping issue. She did.not.want.to.take.a.nap.... or go to bed in general. She was a little stinker about it, but she needed it and eventually fell asleep.<br /><br />The church group had some potlucks and a softball game. I really enjoyed this campground. It had showers, a nice playground, softball field, basketball court & a swimming hole!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/4924511495/" title="DSC_0234 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4081/4924511495_0b1e6b7728.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="DSC_0234" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/4925041458/" title="DSC_0193 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4925041458_9df7f1d713.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="DSC_0193" /></a>aimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9019256.post-1994192553431951872010-10-04T08:44:00.000-07:002012-02-15T10:12:24.797-08:00Camping!This summer was filled with CAMPING! I love camping. We use to go all the time when I was a kid. We would just pick-up and go on the weekends. As an adult, I'm lucky to go once a year. Richard can only get weekends off if he asks for them well in advance. This year was different, I got to go 3 times!<br /><br />When asked what I wanted to do for my birthday (Aug 2nd), I said camping. Since it was too late to get a spot in a state campground, I polled my facebook friends and came up with Indian Henry's in the Mt. Hood National Forest. No shower, but flushing toilets! And it was right on the Clackamas river... plus, less than an hour away from our house.<br /><br />The ride in was beautiful:<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/4926987295/" title="DSC_0006 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4073/4926987295_a42f66eb2c.jpg" alt="DSC_0006" width="500" height="333" /></a><br /><br />We had a secluded site:<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/4926988945/" title="DSC_0007 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4137/4926988945_31537e90be.jpg" alt="DSC_0007" width="500" height="333" /></a><br /><br />It wasn't very noisy, even when the campground started filling up on Saturday.<br /><br />Sabrina had a lot of fun:<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/4927590858/" title="DSC_0010 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4137/4927590858_4508dcab98_m.jpg" alt="DSC_0010" width="160" height="240" /> </a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/4926996861/" title="DSC_0012 by a-chan, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4100/4926996861_a4251da4a5_m.jpg" alt="DSC_0012" width="160" height="240" /> </a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/4926998421/" title="DSC_0013 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4121/4926998421_fa65d8bb26_m.jpg" alt="DSC_0013" width="160" height="240" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/4927048337/" title="DSC_0048 by a-chan, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4100/4927048337_39887a0c71_m.jpg" alt="DSC_0048" width="160" height="240" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/4927155977/" title="DSC_0115 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4094/4927155977_5ffba9cd53_m.jpg" alt="DSC_0115" width="160" height="240" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/4927154069/" title="DSC_0114 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4116/4927154069_354604392e_m.jpg" alt="DSC_0114" width="160" height="240" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/4927722746/" title="DSC_0097 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4117/4927722746_036ab6f788_m.jpg" alt="DSC_0097" width="160" height="240" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/4927685096/" title="DSC_0074 by a-chan, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4116/4927685096_b6f51a0d02_m.jpg" alt="DSC_0074" width="160" height="240" /></a>aimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9019256.post-60508170512103988352010-07-19T09:00:00.000-07:002012-02-15T10:12:05.650-08:00Happy 3rd Anniversary!<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/831287640/" title="PICT0434 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img alt="PICT0434" height="500" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1229/831287640_58b5992e22.jpg" width="333" /></a><br />
June, 30th 2007<br />
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Richard surprised me with a new ipod! And it's green! He even loaded our "song" on it (and by "song" I mean the one we finally agreed on for our first dance, it took months!) My mom came and babysat so we could do dinner and a movie (California Pizza Kitchen & Toy Story 3). Thanks Mom.<br />
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We still haven't scanned in any of the professional pictures, even though we have permission. I just browsed through my flickr set and none of the ones taken with my camera are very good.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/896552605/" title="PICT0468-2 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img alt="PICT0468-2" height="333" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1262/896552605_95ae9ed235.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
My two grandmas<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/897400312/" title="PICT0465-2 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img alt="PICT0465-2" height="500" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1100/897400312_ab33025203.jpg" width="376" /></a><br />
My mom and my dad. In the same picture... pretty weird, but I'm glad it was taken.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/896498287/" title="PICT0417 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img alt="PICT0417" height="375" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1423/896498287_8b1bcbe0b0.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
My cousin Chuck (a groomsman) and my niece, Alive (flower girl)<br />
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I need to have a scanning party or something. I wish the photographer had just given us the digital pictures. I think that's the wave of the future. Oh well. He did a good job.aimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9019256.post-10698412065971249742010-07-16T08:00:00.000-07:002010-07-16T08:00:01.400-07:00Maui & the Big Island<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/4617237055/" title="DSC_0528 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/4617237055_b91351966d.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="DSC_0528" /></a><br /><br /><br />I have way too many pictures from Hawaii. I'll probably end up making a set public on Flickr. Richard had been feeling homesick for awhile and airfare was cheap. So we went. It was kinda weird. We bought our tickets 2 weeks before we left, so for me, that was a last minute vacation. It just happened that it was Mother's day and my MIL's birthday while we were there. We spent a week on Maui, a weekend on the Big Island, and then another 5 days on Maui.<br /><br />Sabrina LOVED it! She loved the beach, she loved the water, she loved the avocados... And she loved her Nana!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/4617389309/" title="DSC_0740 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3412/4617389309_457d5155b7.jpg" width="500" height="357" alt="DSC_0740" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/4617385107/" title="DSC_0772 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4005/4617385107_881538ba03.jpg" width="357" height="500" alt="DSC_0772" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/4617754082/" title="IMGP0125 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3461/4617754082_1e82ccd816.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="IMGP0125" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/4617914498/" title="DSC_0711 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4064/4617914498_7d058f33b6.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="DSC_0711" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/4617746124/" title="IMGP0083 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3300/4617746124_ae2abb79d9.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMGP0083" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/4614173489/" title="DSC_0336 by a-chan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3363/4614173489_6579cbbc84.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="DSC_0336" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chan/4644890783/" title="downsized_0515001144.jpg by a-chan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4644890783_87467d7296.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="downsized_0515001144.jpg" /></a>aimee noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630476077898148927noreply@blogger.com3