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		<title>On the Podium&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2006, I was just dipping my toes into blogging when the Yarn Harlot announced the first Knitting Olympics event. Since the Artisan family has frequently crafted during the Olympics, I was game for it. I attempted my first lace project with mixed results&#8230;yes it was completed in time but it now serves as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amyartisan.com/blog/2010/03/02/on-the-podium/</link>
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		<title>Remembering Grandma&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a year since the early morning call came that Grandma had passed away in her sleep. As we have all come to our &#8220;new normal,&#8221; links to Grandma are everywhere around us. In the time since, we have found many ways to honor her memory.
  
Last fall, I stumbled across a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amyartisan.com/blog/2010/02/27/remembering-grandma/</link>
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		<title>Way North Winter&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned earlier, work has me on the road once again. And once again it means winter in northern Wisconsin (on the border with the UP). And with a &#8220;way north&#8221; winter comes new winter gear.
Before the project I bought a new winter coat &#8211; it was touted as designed to withstand watching the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amyartisan.com/blog/2010/02/10/way-north-winter/</link>
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		<title>Keepin&#8217; Kozy</title>
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A new year, a new water bottle for my desk, a renewed commitment to drinking lots of water throughout the day&#8230;and so a new kozy was in order. In using my other metal water bottles, I have found that having a simple cotton wrapper on them helps keep the water cool longer and minimizes the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amyartisan.com/blog/2010/02/07/keepin-kozy/</link>
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		<title>Holiday Hats &amp; Hands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(&#8230;before January turns to February, it&#8217;s high time to blog about the holiday knits&#8230;)
As fall turning to winter and the holidays of 2009, my knitting needles picked up some speed so that I could have plenty of hand-knits under the Christmas tree.

For my uncle in California, I decided that a watch cap was in order. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amyartisan.com/blog/2010/01/31/holiday-hats-hands/</link>
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		<title>The Reason We Celebrate&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register.

So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amyartisan.com/blog/2009/12/25/the-reason-we-celebrate/</link>
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		<title>Knit the Season!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year when many of us are frantically finishing up the hand crafted gifts that we plan to give. In a few days, I will reveal what Artisan Knits were under the Christmas tree this year. In the interim, I wanted to tell you about the latest installment in Kate Jacob&#8217;s Friday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amyartisan.com/blog/2009/12/23/knit-the-season/</link>
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		<title>A Family Thanksgiving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first year I lived in Chicago, we had an Artisan family Thanksgiving up here. In the years that followed, after Grandma moved in with Mom &#38; Dad it was easiest for me to head home for the holidays. This year, the Artisan family once again celebrated Thanksgiving at my home here in Chicago. Since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amyartisan.com/blog/2009/11/29/a-family-thanksgiving/</link>
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		<title>Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo</title>
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The end of October meant that it was time for my annual Halloween trip to Texas to see my two favorite little girls. In addition to our &#8220;normal&#8221; fun of playtime, reading, crafts &#38; more we also hosted a fun Halloween party for their little friends. Of course costumes were required for all. In mid-September [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amyartisan.com/blog/2009/11/17/bibbidi-bobbidi-boo/</link>
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		<title>Catching Up with Novel Friends</title>
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Reading is something that I enjoy year round; however, as the weather turns cool I find myself looking forward to the times when I can &#8220;hibernate&#8221; with a good book &#38; an unending mug of coffee or tea. Just in time for these cooler times, Kate Jacobs is bringing out two books on November 3rd.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amyartisan.com/blog/2009/10/28/catching-up-with-novel-friends/</link>
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