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Progress

of a different sort! I am working hard at making sure I have enough content so that frannycakes & knitdea can have a sweet launch. I have been thinking that this is the direction that my web company was going to go – blogging! I feel vulnerable and exposed when I blog purely about my [...]

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2010: Design Oddessy

2010 is going to be a great year. I am participating in Design Informer’s daily design challenge (follow it on twitter via #design365). You can see my posts at design365.maryfranwiley.com. I wrote a design manifesto that I plan on following as well. I am starting up a knitting design & inspiration blog (not a full [...]

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Real World: Chi-town.

So this is life.  A full time job that has no relevance to who I am or where I want to be (other than the miniscule amount of French I use once a week), a half-time course load that keeps me out of the house til 10:30 four nights a week and a complete lack [...]

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Knitting & a quest.

I am a nerd, I admit it.  The first analysis I read of the last debate was one on word counts and a comparison of the styles of speaking of the candidates based purely on their choices of words.  It was way more interesting than the rest of the political commentary that was out there.  [...]

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YarnCon 2008

I went to YarnCon.  And it was fantastic, except for the atm eating my cousin’s debit card and me dropping $28 worth of yarn somewhere.  But overall, it was pretty fantastic. I bought a wee bit of yarn.  A bit of banana silk… and a bit of merino… I was looking for alternative fibers, but [...]

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