Sarah Jane Humke

The life of a traveling, reading, writing, spining and knitting shepherdess.

Holy crap, that knitting just FLEW by!  I love it when a pattern (in this case Simple Things by Mary-Heather Cogar) and a yarn (Skein Queen‘s Entwist in A Christmas Carol from the Knit magazine sock club) come together so very perfectly.  At least in my opinion.  The shawlete is a tad on the colorful …

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So, I travel a fair amount.  More than some, less than others.  I almost always travel for leisure, in fact I think that I have only ever been on one business trip ever!  Anyway, I’ve decided to compile this list of tips and tricks that I have learned so that you don’t have to!  If …

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So I figured that I’d share with y’all the totally rocking day that is this Thursday for me. What I’m up to: +Packing travel knitting for The Netherlands.  (Spending a week+ with the designer seems like a good time to knit one of her patterns if-you-know-what-I-mean.) +Filling-out a scholarship application. (I probably shouldn’t try to …

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6:30am  Good Morning!  7:00am Family is up and ready to go to breakfast.     7:30am  Breakfast with our wonderful Swiss B&B hosts. 8:00am  Checked out the signpost forest across the road from the  gas station that we filled-up the car at. 8:15am On the road again still heading NW. 9:30am  Stop at a spot …

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6:15 am  Wake-up call.  Don’t want to get out of one of the most comfortable hotel beds that I have ever encountered. 7:15 am Have eaten and exited the city.  Was unable to procure Mountain Dew.  Survival of this trip is looking doubtful… 7:30 am  The speed limit in Canada is going drive me nuts.  …

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8:00 am The sun is up in the sky over Central Minnesota.  We left this morning even earlier than planned as my parents woke up and subsequently awoke me as well.  Since we were all up at the absolutely ungodly hour of 2:55 we decided that it we had just as well get on the …

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