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And will continue to for weeks to come.
I knit a little dolphin from Kath Dalmeny's World of Knitted Toys years ago for my son. He tore a hole in it about a year ago.
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It's been sitting on my desk under a pile of stuff waiting to be repaired. Of course, when I tell the kids I'll fix their torn dolls, blankets, clothes, etc. I don't really mean it. I hope that they will lost interest and I can discreetly toss the item in the trash. But these kids, I tell you, they have long memories. My older son still talks about a Jessie the Cowgirl doll he lost at day care when he was two! But my son pestered me about the dolphin and I explained that I didn't have any matching yarn to fix him. He said to use anything blue. So I opened my scrap bin and pulled out the first vaguely blueish thing I saw. I then sewed up the dolphin's back with all the care of a [insert someone who does not give a shit about his or her job].
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Happily my son doesn't care how it looks at all and is very pleased to have his dolphin back (until he tears it open in a new location which should take him about eight more minutes).
Thanks for all the advice and comments about shopping for a purse. I spent hours looking at the thousands of bags on Zappos. I finally found the perfect one.
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It only costs $1234. Oops. How did I magically pick out one of the most expensive bag on Zappos?
The closest thing I've found is this one.
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It's much more reasonably priced. What do you think? I'm not loving the gold hardware and on second glance it's a little granny-ish. I think I need to keep looking.