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		<title>through the woods&#8230;..</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kalurah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p></p> <p style="text-align: center;">Over the river and through the woods To Grandmother&#8217;s house we go. The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh Through the white and drifted snow, O! Over the river and through the woods Oh, how the wind does blow. It stings the nose And bites the toes As over the [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Over the river and through the woods<br />
To Grandmother&#8217;s house we go.<br />
The horse knows the way<br />
To carry the sleigh<br />
Through the white and drifted snow, O!<br />
Over the river and through the woods<br />
Oh, how the wind does blow.<br />
It stings the nose<br />
And bites the toes<br />
As over the ground we go.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-512" title="hoodupsideview" src="http://whiletheyplay.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/hoodupsideview-661x1024.jpg" alt="" width="661" height="1024" /></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Meet my latest design&#8230;. &#8220;Through the Woods&#8221;!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Readers, Through the Woods.&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Through the Woods, Readers.&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong> <img src='http://whiletheyplay.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">This pattern has been a long time coming. Just ask my friend and co-worker, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?filter=app_2361831622#/profile.php?id=759604693">Amy</a>. Who has endured the torment of listening to me go on and on about the various ideas I had in an attempt to create this design.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Or ask my dear husband, who had to witness the horror that is repeatedly frogging yard upon yard of<em> &#8220;CO 100. No, wait! CO 120. Purl 4, Knit 4. No! WAIT! AAAAHHHH!!!!!!!&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I may at one point, have found him tucked away in some dark corner chanting, <em>&#8220;Make it stop!!!&#8221;</em> But it may or may not have been deafened by the sound of my thrashing knitting needles.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-513" title="hooddownbackview" src="http://whiletheyplay.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/hooddownbackview-759x1024.jpg" alt="" width="759" height="1024" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">At any rate&#8230;.. let us just say that this pattern took some time and effort and a couple hundred of my precious brain cells.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">But alas, she was born! And isn&#8217;t she precious??</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-521" title="hoodupunbuttoned" src="http://whiletheyplay.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/hoodupunbuttoned-683x1023.jpg" alt="" width="683" height="1023" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Yes, she is a girl. Just because she is so darn pretty. I think by far, this is my FAVORITE pattern to date! What do <em>you</em> think, dear readers???</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">You can purchase the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=38568609">pattern </a>in my Etsy shoppe for $5.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And I would like to also mention that through the end of January, 10%  goes to the<a href="http://www.care.org/index.asp"> Haiti Emergency Relief Fund</a> and another 10% goes to the <a href="http://ww5.komen.org/">Susan G. Komen Foundation</a> to support Breast Cancer Awareness.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Hoping you all have a wonderful week!  <img src='http://whiletheyplay.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Love, <em>Kalurah</em></p>
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		<title>the &quot;F&quot; word&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kalurah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>post update: I know, I know.I think this is awful and it has truly upset me. I have felt like no one around me gets just how damaging this could be to small, impressionable ones. My hubbie gave me a look, the first time I pointed it out, like, &#8220;Yeah. So? Society today is rude [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">post update:</span> </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">I know, I know.<br />I think this is awful and it has truly upset me. I have felt like no one around me gets just how damaging this could be to small, impressionable ones. My hubbie gave me a look, the first time I pointed it out, like, <i>&#8220;Yeah. So? Society today is rude and uncooth. What of it? You want to save the world? Go right ahead. Leave me out of it. If you need me, I&#8217;ll be eating a bag of chips.&#8221;</i><br />That is NOT what the hubbie said, mind you.<br />That&#8217;s just the general impression I got from him. And I get what he means but that doesn&#8217;t mean I have to agree with it or accept it!<br />I am going to be a half-coward and email Zoe&#8217;s teacher about this. And ask her, point blank, if she even noticed it or gave it a second thought.<br />I&#8217;ll let you all know how it goes.<br />Thanks, everyone, for all of your wonderful input. You ladies ROCK!</span></span></p>
<p><a class="highslide img_3" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DEPuKIoxvxE/R3GOcq0XX7I/AAAAAAAABXg/hSrjlB008nY/s1600-h/thefword.jpg" onclick="return hs.expand(this)"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DEPuKIoxvxE/R3GOcq0XX7I/AAAAAAAABXg/hSrjlB008nY/s400/thefword.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5148052472242593714" border="0" /></a><br />I like to see my tax dollars hard at work. It&#8217;s comforting to know that our school system wants our children to use the &#8220;proper&#8221; labels for people. Teaching them to respect others and treat everyone equally.</p>
<p>I would hate to think that my child could be bringing home with her preconceptions of the things around her.</p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a class="highslide img_4" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DEPuKIoxvxE/R3GOL60XX6I/AAAAAAAABXY/lAXyaLygXJI/s1600-h/fat.jpg" onclick="return hs.expand(this)"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DEPuKIoxvxE/R3GOL60XX6I/AAAAAAAABXY/lAXyaLygXJI/s400/fat.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5148052184479784866" border="0" /></a> Or, rather, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">mis</span><span style="font-style: italic;">-conceptions</span>.</div>
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