MORE OF THE SMALLER CITY

Have enjoyed reading several of your personal experiences so much for the past few weeks with the bigger and smaller city as well as this drive on the W-coast!

My shock continuation about this smaller city experience on Friday. I had googled and found two yarn stores. One was open the day after Thanksgiving, and the other not, so the choice was easy.
We parked in a residential street and couldn’t figure out where the store was.

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We passed the corner and I saw this window. Turned around again
then saw the store sign( you may faintly see through the window)! I shook my head in disbelief.
The perks of a small city … a store at the end of a residential street!

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Choose the light mint green from Blue Sky Cotton
second bin on the left. I gasped (inside) when they rang up the total.
In retrospect, it was totally worth it. I had four hanks left, and was almost enough
( $20 more) for another unique (summery) top.
Deal or what?

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Reflection in Mirror

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This cotton sweater was started at the neck, then going down.*
Maybe you recall that it meant “no room for error?”
I was doing great …  untill the second sleeve.
Repeated it 3 times, to match the first one.
Surprisingly, the lace at the neck and pockets were much easier than I thought!
I made the sweater a size bigger, since comfort counts more than looks when painting.
It would be frustrating to have my blood flow cut off, lol.

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Leaving the yarn store, hubby took a fifth pic of Patient Me and My Yarn Tree

 

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a half an hour of travel
enjoying refreshing sights of the ocean …

to see the(blurry)  reflections in the wet sand, click to see enlarged version

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 up to Main Street Solvang!
patches of yellow, peach, and pink
(taken by hubby)

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Do you realize that Denmark is a kingdom?
How about Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Holland, and Spain?
ALL kingdoms ruled by a king and/or queen.

So, the U.K is not the only kingdom in Europe!! I wonder when the MEDIA catches up to that.
The kingdom Luxembourg is ruled by a Grand Duke, and Monaco, Liechtenstein, and Andorra ruled by a prince.

At the inauguration of the New king Willem Alexander and Queen Maxima of Holland last year, all the kings, queens, princes, and princesses were there.

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see you when I get there,
Solvang close by ( in California)
(whenever I post it:)  )

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* The sweater is a pattern from Craftsy (on line) Mercedes Tarasovich-Clark  (the Artemesia Sweater)

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