<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from strings-n-strands.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 strings-n-strands.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-08-16T11:49:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2009-08-16:links.412179562</id><title>Right angle turn</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/right_angle_turn.htm"><![CDATA[My life has taken a right angle turn over the summer. I did complete my Montessori training in June but it became obvious that there were not any local Montessori jobs available. It was suggested to me that I could start my own school but there just]]></content><dc:subject>montessori</dc:subject><dc:subject>work</dc:subject><dc:subject>human services</dc:subject><dc:subject>job hunting</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/right_angle_turn.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2009-08-16T11:49:00Z</updated><published>2009-08-16T11:49:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2009-05-27:links.412172235</id><title>Ravelry</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/ravelry.htm"><![CDATA[I have been very good about waiting until I was finished with my classwork to join Ravelry. I know it can be a time sink but it hs some features that I want to use, and of course I wanted to see what everyone else is knitting. You can find me on Rave]]></content><dc:subject>knitting</dc:subject><dc:subject>swords</dc:subject><dc:subject>blog</dc:subject><dc:subject>ravelry</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/ravelry.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2009-05-27T19:33:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-27T19:33:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2009-05-25:links.412171857</id><title>Buffalo Knitters Guild Auction 2009</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/buffalo_knitters_guild_auction_2009.htm"><![CDATA[I have finished the last of my projects for my Montessori Training. I will be observed teaching tomorrow. We will do a material making session this Saturday to make the phonogram wall chart and then I have class on the 5th and 6th and I will be done.]]></content><dc:subject>knitting books</dc:subject><dc:subject>yarns</dc:subject><dc:subject>guild auction</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/buffalo_knitters_guild_auction_2009.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2009-05-25T21:46:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-25T21:46:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2009-05-20:links.412171124</id><title>yes, I am still alive</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/yes_i_am_still_alive.htm"><![CDATA[I am still alive and I am almost finished with my Montessori training. I have to finish illustrating the 2nd half of my Practical Life album which didn&#39;t get completed last year and I will be observed in the classroom on the 26th. We have one mor]]></content><dc:subject>montessori</dc:subject><dc:subject>browser trouble</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/yes_i_am_still_alive.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2009-05-20T10:44:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-20T10:44:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2009-03-14:links.412158501</id><title>Intro to my Montessori Math Album</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/intro_to_my_montessori_math_album.htm"><![CDATA[Sorry I have been MIA. I have been face down and deep in the construction of my Montessori Math album for the past several weeks. I turned it in yesterday and I took and passed my Math Practical exam. I had to present a work and discuss its place in]]></content><dc:subject>montessori</dc:subject><dc:subject>math</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/intro_to_my_montessori_math_album.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2009-03-14T12:56:00Z</updated><published>2009-03-14T12:56:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2009-02-11:links.412153536</id><title>A conceptual look at the framework of Montessori Education (or the beginning of the intro to my Math Album)</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/a_conceptual_look_at_the_framework_of_montessori_education_.htm"><![CDATA[I see Montessori Education as a doorway to lifelong love of learning. It isn&#39;t the only entry but it is one that is structured to be very accessable to young children.Practical Life is the invitation to this structure. It is like stairs to the do]]></content><dc:subject>montessori</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/a_conceptual_look_at_the_framework_of_montessori_education_.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2009-02-11T11:39:00Z</updated><published>2009-02-11T11:39:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2009-02-10:links.412153236</id><title>3 in one</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/3_in_one.htm"><![CDATA[Yesterday, I managed to work on 3 of my knitting projects. I worked on the commuter socks while on the train, I am to the heel flap on the first sock. Since last week I drove to work because of the wretched cold, I haven&#39;t gotten too much time in]]></content><dc:subject>knitting</dc:subject><dc:subject>weather</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/3_in_one.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2009-02-10T11:58:00Z</updated><published>2009-02-10T11:58:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2009-02-08:links.412152794</id><title>Best News of All</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/best_news_of_all.htm"><![CDATA[You can tell the asthma is making me flaky. I forgot the best news of all this week.James was accepted at University of Pittsburgh, Bradford campus to start as a transfer student in the fall. That was great and then a few days later comes another let]]></content><dc:subject>pittbradford</dc:subject><dc:subject>james</dc:subject><dc:subject>good news</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/best_news_of_all.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2009-02-08T16:52:00Z</updated><published>2009-02-08T16:52:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2009-02-08:links.412152757</id><title>6 on the needles, how did that happen?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/6_on_the_needles_how_did_that_happen.htm"><![CDATA[Usually I am a 1 or at most 2 projects at a time knitter, and I am insanely busy trying to finish all my Montessori training projects on time, so how do I find myself with 6 projects on the needles right now?Well, 2 of them are guilt free knitting. O]]></content><dc:subject>montessori</dc:subject><dc:subject>knitting</dc:subject><dc:subject>weather</dc:subject><dc:subject>asthma</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/6_on_the_needles_how_did_that_happen.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2009-02-08T15:01:00Z</updated><published>2009-02-08T15:01:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2009-01-27:links.412150328</id><title>Big Beautiful Bloom</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/big_beautiful_bloom.htm"><![CDATA[In November the Montessori class where I am interning planted an Amaryllis, it was kinda a dud, didn&#39;t grow very tall and bloomed very quickly and faded quickly. It inspired me to get my own, which I did. It kept growing and growing and this week]]></content><dc:subject>knitting</dc:subject><dc:subject>amaryllis</dc:subject><dc:subject>gym</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/big_beautiful_bloom.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2009-01-27T02:34:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-27T02:34:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2009-01-26:links.412150146</id><title>Finally knitting content to share</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/finally_knitting_content_to_share.htm"><![CDATA[Sorry I have been absent. I have been hard at work on my Montessori training. Part of the training requirements are to illustrate our manuals. My Math Manual is due in March, so I have been hard at work with it. I have spent 12 hours in the last 2 we]]></content><dc:subject>knitting</dc:subject><dc:subject>montessori</dc:subject><dc:subject>socks</dc:subject><dc:subject>fish</dc:subject><dc:subject>shawl</dc:subject><dc:subject>spinning</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/finally_knitting_content_to_share.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2009-01-26T02:40:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-26T02:40:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2009-01-09:links.412147564</id><title>This morning&apos;s commute was...interesting</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/this_mornings_commute_wasinteresting.htm"><![CDATA[Last night I went out to the barn, in the course of that trip the oil pressure guage on my truck started to swing in a disconcerting manner. While driving the pressure would be fine, it would drop a bit lower than normal if I stopped but then when I]]></content><dc:subject>commute</dc:subject><dc:subject>truck</dc:subject><dc:subject>spinning</dc:subject><dc:subject>fiber</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/this_mornings_commute_wasinteresting.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2009-01-09T20:02:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-09T20:02:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2009-01-08:links.412147250</id><title>The lost is found</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/the_lost_is_found.htm"><![CDATA[Today I found one of the KnitPick needles that I thought I had lost. That put me back up to 4 needles and I can continue the sock without using the mismatched needles. I started a small mystery knitting project today, it can not be revealed until it]]></content><dc:subject>montessori</dc:subject><dc:subject>knitting</dc:subject><dc:subject>asthma</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/the_lost_is_found.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2009-01-08T02:09:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-08T02:09:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2009-01-07:links.412147088</id><title>Home Again</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/home_again.htm"><![CDATA[No, I didn&#39;t travel over the holiday, we just have a weather related day off school again. Today it is for general bad weather/ice. We have had a winter weather advisory in place since 4 o&#39;clock yesterday First we got snow, then overnight it]]></content><dc:subject>school</dc:subject><dc:subject>knitting</dc:subject><dc:subject>knitting needles</dc:subject><dc:subject>apinning</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/home_again.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2009-01-07T13:47:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-07T13:47:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2009-01-04:links.412146455</id><title>2008 was my year of socks- a review of the year</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/2008_was_my_year_of_socks_a_review_of_the_year.htm"><![CDATA[At the beginning of 2008 I chose to knit a year of socks from the book And a Time to Knit Stockings. It was following my very successful year of knitting from the Knitters Almanac.&nbsp; I have been so busy with my Montessori training and horses stuf]]></content><dc:subject>knitting</dc:subject><dc:subject>socks</dc:subject><dc:subject>montessori</dc:subject><dc:subject>etsy</dc:subject><dc:subject>roving</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/2008_was_my_year_of_socks_a_review_of_the_year.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2009-01-04T00:46:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-04T00:46:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2008-12-23:links.412144870</id><title>Action Research</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/action_research.htm"><![CDATA[If you went to my Etsy shop- StringsNstrands you would see that I have Montessori Fabric Matching sets for sale. You might wonder how such a thing came to be there. Well...For my Montessori training program I am required to design and run an action r]]></content><dc:subject>montessori</dc:subject><dc:subject>sensorial</dc:subject><dc:subject>fabric matching</dc:subject><dc:subject>action research</dc:subject><dc:subject>snow</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/action_research.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2008-12-23T02:21:00Z</updated><published>2008-12-23T02:21:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2008-12-21:links.412144621</id><title>Snow, snow snow</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/snow_snow_snow.htm"><![CDATA[Yesterday we got 13 inches of snow.... We all shoveled the snow, and then shoveled again this morning as the wind was blowing the snow around last night. Our lanlord has a new plow service, I can&#39;t say that their performance yesterday inspires co]]></content><dc:subject>snow</dc:subject><dc:subject>knitting</dc:subject><dc:subject>sewing</dc:subject><dc:subject>shawl</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/snow_snow_snow.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2008-12-21T03:17:00Z</updated><published>2008-12-21T03:17:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2008-12-19:links.412144351</id><title>I am still here</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/i_am_still_here.htm"><![CDATA[Yes, I am still here, I have been very busy. I should be able to start posting regularly now as today is the last day of school before winter break.My Etsy shop- StringsNstrands has made one sale. In addition to roving I have put up sets of fabric ma]]></content><dc:subject>knitting</dc:subject><dc:subject>etsy</dc:subject><dc:subject>snow</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/i_am_still_here.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2008-12-19T13:08:00Z</updated><published>2008-12-19T13:08:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2008-12-01:links.412141491</id><title>Breaking News</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/breaking_news.htm"><![CDATA[Lydia and Chloe place 7th in their first horse trial. They were competing Beginner Novice Horse. They stood in 3rd place after dressage, but fell to 7ths with some refuals in stadium jumping and cross country. Lydia was very satisfied with Chloe&#39;]]></content><dc:subject>knitting</dc:subject><dc:subject>horses</dc:subject><dc:subject>lydia</dc:subject><dc:subject>digital camera</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/breaking_news.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2008-12-01T02:26:00Z</updated><published>2008-12-01T02:26:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2008-11-28:links.412141146</id><title>I am thankful for...</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/i_am_thankful_for.htm"><![CDATA[Just a list tonight....I am thankful for....The good health of my family. My dad is hanging in there and his current treatment is holding the cancer at bay. Lydia and her horse are healthy enough to compete this weekend.&nbsp; Bill, James and I are a]]></content><dc:subject>thanksgiving</dc:subject><dc:subject>skis</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/i_am_thankful_for.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2008-11-28T02:00:00Z</updated><published>2008-11-28T02:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2008-11-05:links.412137477</id><title>Congratulations Barak Obama</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/congratulations_barak_obama.htm"><![CDATA[and Congratulations to the US for electing him.&nbsp; DS and DH stayed up to watch election returns, I went to bed. I don&#39;t function well on little sleep and I am the first one up in the house.The Disco socks did get finished yesterday but there]]></content><dc:subject>knitting</dc:subject><dc:subject>skis</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/congratulations_barak_obama.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2008-11-05T12:03:00Z</updated><published>2008-11-05T12:03:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2008-11-04:links.412137173</id><title>I am going to...</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/i_am_going_to.htm"><![CDATA[vote this afternoon after school. If you are in the US and a registered voter Please go vote. After you vote there are several places you can go for a free treat. Starbucks is offereing a free cup of brewed coffee, Dunkin donuts has an offer out ther]]></content><dc:subject>knitting</dc:subject><dc:subject>voting</dc:subject><dc:subject>skis</dc:subject><dc:subject>truck</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/i_am_going_to.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2008-11-04T11:59:00Z</updated><published>2008-11-04T11:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2008-11-03:links.412136962</id><title>Leaf Drop Day</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/leaf_drop_day.htm"><![CDATA[Yesterday was leaf drop day, a phenomenon that we noticed for the first time last year.&nbsp;Many trees here seem to pick the same day to drop most of their leaves. One day the trees are clothed in brightly colored leaves, the next morning you get up]]></content><dc:subject>knitting</dc:subject><dc:subject>sca</dc:subject><dc:subject>kwar</dc:subject><dc:subject>montessori</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/leaf_drop_day.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2008-11-03T11:50:00Z</updated><published>2008-11-03T11:50:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2008-10-24:links.412135427</id><title>October socks in October</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/october_socks_in_october.htm"><![CDATA[For the first time since early in the spring I have actually completed the month&#39;s sock during the correct month. I present the October socks:This is the October sock from And A Time to Knit Stockings.&nbsp; This pair of socks were knit using Kni]]></content><dc:subject>knitting</dc:subject><dc:subject>socks</dc:subject><dc:subject>oil change</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/october_socks_in_october.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2008-10-24T21:53:00Z</updated><published>2008-10-24T21:53:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:strings-n-strands.blog-city.com,2008-10-23:links.412135085</id><title>Socks for hands</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/socks_for_hands.htm"><![CDATA[These are the fingerless mits I knit in September. They are knit from the left over Vinca yarn I got from Gayle and knit into socks for her.My husband calls them socks for hands. I made them to keep my hands warm while I was walking (and knitting) be]]></content><dc:subject>knitting</dc:subject><dc:subject>truck</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://strings-n-strands.blog-city.com/socks_for_hands.htm"/><dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator><author><name>Wendy</name></author><updated>2008-10-23T01:56:00Z</updated><published>2008-10-23T01:56:00Z</published></entry></feed>