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July 14, 2007

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Saturday Twilight sky. It's been a beautiful day, nice and sunny, but just a little bit cold. Perfect knitting weather, but we've been running around too much for knitting.
I have been working away at the Shetland Shawl, but it gets a bit disheartening sometimes, because I knit for hours, and it looks like theres little or no progress happening.
Here's where I'm at.

About 20 rows in on the second border. Each row currently has somewhere in the vicinity of 300 stitches, and each row decreases by 2 stitches. Not fast enough!

I haven't touched the Angora Supreme sweater all week, but I have been just a little unfaithful. More on that next time, when I actually remember to take a picture.

That's about it for the knitting updates.
Many of you asked about Em's dance trophies. So I took some pictures to show you how many she has. For reasons that will become apparent, I didn't bother to count them.

First off, the trophy shelf in our living room.

These are the "Big Deal" competition trophies. There's 30 or so of them.

The wall unit in the dining area.

Exam trophies.

The other shelf in the dining room. (I really need to clean that glass!), more exam trophies, and a few special ones, like "Most Promising Baby" from an eisteddfod when she was only 5 or so, and encouragement awards and the like.

Now we enter her room. All of these are just competition trophies (1st, 2nd 3rd and so on).
Top of the wardrobe.

3 or 4 deep up there.

Narrow bookshelf beside the wardrobe.

Main bookshelf.

The one in the centre of the top shelf is a teddy bear instead of a cup or a dancer. It was the first competition trophy she ever won, and is still her favourite to his day.

The floor in front of the main bookshelf.

The floor in front of the second bookshelf and the bottom shelf.

Second shelf of the second bookshelf, along with her mini Blythes and her candles.

And there's some more boxed up out in the garage.
I have no idea how many there are in total. She used to keep count, but got bored and gave up.
In a way it's a bit sad, because she doesn't get excited about winning them any more. She doesn't really compete to win though, quite often as soon as she's left the comp, she's forgottem what she got for each section!

Posted by Donna at July 14, 2007 06:29 PM

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Whew! No wonder you say you don't do housework - dusting all those trophies would be a full time job! LOL

Seriously, congratulations to Em and her fabulous parents for their love, support and encouragement.

Posted by: Lynne at July 14, 2007 08:56 PM

wow,no wonder Em has gotten bored with counting!!!!
That Shawl looks wonderful to me,LOL, Ihavent started mine so any developement is news! Im making myself finish a spinning project before anything else!

Posted by: cathy at July 14, 2007 11:29 PM

Wow. Congratulations to Em. Those trophies also represent a lot of classes and practices. However, also amazing is all the knitting time those trophies represent. :)
It's too bad more competetions don't give out other things besides trophies such as hair clips, beaded coin purses, gift certificates, charms to hang on dance bags, little makeup mirrors etc.

Posted by: sue at July 15, 2007 02:22 AM

So, which is there more of, yarn or trophies? And WOW that's a lot of trophies!

Posted by: Restless Knitter at July 15, 2007 02:27 AM

That Shetland Shawl definitely takes a lot of perserverance. It will be so worth it in the end. Em sure has a lot of trophies. That's a lot. Maybe she could keep the ones that mean a lot to her and the rest just get rid of them. I love that Angora sweater you are working on too. The color is beautiful.

Posted by: Wanda at July 15, 2007 05:15 AM

Good heavens, that is an unbelievable amount of trophies! What a testament to her dancing abilities!!

Posted by: Jejune at July 15, 2007 01:26 PM

Wow, that's a LOT of trophies!!! Great job, Em!

LOL at the "Harry hotter" poster :D

Posted by: claudine at July 15, 2007 04:12 PM

Holy sheep shit Batman! I got to the first few pics and thought 'that's a lot' and kept scrolling and scrolling. Amazing!

Posted by: Rachael at July 15, 2007 04:33 PM

holy molly!!! that's alot and i meant ALOT of trophies!!!!!!

anyway, did i saw "harry hotter" poster somewhere up there in Em's room?? hehehehe...is she a harry potter fan?

Posted by: Michelle at July 16, 2007 10:50 AM

You know when I was a kid I had heaps of trophies from sailing! Yep you didn't know I was that sporty did you?? Well now you do. And I got so sick of the trophies I used to pull off the metal bit saying what the award was for and stick it in a scrap book and throw out the trophy. She could do that and sell them back to the trophy shop to reuse. hahah x Shaz

Posted by: thestripeytiger at July 16, 2007 03:08 PM

Looking at all those trophies took me back years. My boys were very sporty and accumulated many trophies...
In time you may want to keep the memories but reduce the bulk & the dusting! I removed the plaques mounted them in frames on black velvet. You then just have to find enough wall space...
I enjoy your blog...Julie

Posted by: Julie at July 20, 2007 07:18 PM