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Mr and Mrs Lili Wedding

 

Flashing (but safe for work)


Diane, who runs the Dublin Knit Collective, has asked knitters to flash their yarn stashes.

I have very little shame, so here's mine. And because it's been fashion week somewhere for the past week or so (New York last week, NZ this week, and I'm sure lots of other places where I've paid no attention), I'm giving them to you as collections.

The "venue"? Lovely Laura Ashley boxes hold my stash (with a ball of KidSilk Haze to give you an idea of how small they really are) - a birthday present from David.

Then the stash proper. May I present:
KidSilk Haze (or Similar) collection
Laceweight and Mothproof collection:
Being Used on my Current Project Collection
Yarn of Indeterminate Fibres collection
Sock Yarn collection
Random Slightly Scratchy Stuff collection
Wool & Cotton Blend collection
Too Much Bamboo (Maybe) collection
The Yarn for a Specific Project collection
Unmatched Cotton collection
8-ply Cotton collection
4-ply Cotton collection
Oddments collection

The link above gives you the Flickr set with all the (incredibly witty) commentary. If you can't be arsed reading it, and just want yarn porn, here's the slideshow.

And if you are interested, here's where you can find the culprit behind my expression, doing a Lien.

And that's my stash done! Looking forward to seeing everyone else's, and proving to David once and for all that I really don't own that much yarn after all.

(So please, someone else hurry up and post theirs!)

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Fame!

(I'm gonna live forever... I'm gonna learn how to fly...)

So we've been here just over 5 months, but we've already made the national paper.

Not for illegal stuff. For knitting.

(Again, people, knitting brings good things into your life. David's started, and so has Claire, and Emily... You should think about it.)

You can't see our faces, but you can see Lili's lovely bald head and my shaggy curtain of hair-that-needed-a-brushing.

I haven't had a chance to scan the page so you can see the photo (work, ya know, it gets in the way of using my work computer for recreation), but we will eventually. And if you happen to be an Irish Times subscriber, you are most welcome to download the photo and email it to us - leave your details in the comments please!

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I think the photos are under that stack of boxes...

Nah, they're actually online - finally.

http://www.liliwedding.com/photos

4 days to go...

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A bower of flowers


Our house was a bower of flowers last week. Really.

First of all, we had the flowers I was given on the 19th when I left work.

Then on Tuesday we received a lovely vase and bouquet from our neighbours, aka the rockin' librarians.

(OK, that's not what we really call them, but it's how I think of them. Partying, fun-loving... they're not your mother's librarians... Unless you're me, though my mother the librarian is not that kind of librarian...)

But I digress.

So the second bouquet, which had beautiful pinks and greens and whites, to tone with the oyster-coloured vase. (Love that vase!)

Then Wednesday rolled around, and we met with the florist to go over the wedding flowers. At the end of the meeting, she gave us the flowers she'd used to demonstrate the styles: mostly white hydrangeas, but also lisianthus.

So much for needing to buy flowers to celebrate unemployment!

And if you're interested, Lili very obligingly took some photos of the flowers for me.

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