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2010 Blog Review

3 Jan

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how my blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

Featured image

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 6,600 times in 2010. That’s about 16 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 222 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 425 posts.

The busiest day of the year was August 4th with 173 views. The most popular post that day was Sweet-a-licious.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were ravelry.com, facebook.com, wedonothaveaknittingproblem.blogspot.com, Google Reader, and bloglines.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for ten thousand dancing stars, canon, canon 1d mark iv, elbesoie, and canon mark 4.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

Sweet-a-licious July 2010
3 comments

2

Review: Canon EOS-1D Mark IV (Part 3) August 2010
1 comment

3

Dyoselin June 2010
1 comment

4

Some knitting required July 2010
6 comments

5

Review: Canon EOS-1D Mark IV (Part 1) August 2010
3 comments and 1 Like on WordPress.com,

Cooking at home

11 Dec

Yes, I do cook, too!

This looks yummy, doesn’t it? It’s so easy to make as well. Recipe link and process photos after the jump.

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Together again

16 Nov

Two posts ago, I hinted at something brilliant that happened at the park. Well actually it started before then and I posted about it my Facebook account. It had something to do with me and the lady in the green shirt in this photograph.

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Books

21 Oct

With instantly downloadable PDF patterns available on Ravelry and elsewhere online, my knitting book purchase has declined this past year. Still, holding a glossy publication with colourful photos and detailed shots of techniques and special stitches is a treat.

My latest acquisitions were carefully chosen for the type of patterns they contain. Thank goodness for Ravelry featuring details of each pattern on these books so that I could scrutinize every details, look at projects already completed and weigh in my yarn options. It has certainly made it so much easier making a decision to buy the books.

The first book is New England Knits by Cecily Glowik MacDonald and Melissa LaBarre. The second book is Brave New Knits by Julie Turjoman with photography by Jared Flood and foreword by Jessica Marshall Forbes (co-founder of Ravelry.com). Yes, frecklegirl herself!
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Yarn love

19 Oct

Remember that blog contest I had a while ago?

Well, the prize made its way s l o w l y to the rightful winner, Hazel, and she got it today. Yay! Read her story here. Thanks for the unsolicited pimpage too!

Well then, I guess it’s time to think up of a new blog contest. Watch this space.

New music from Josh

11 Sep

Download new music from Josh Groban here.

I’ve been enjoying the long Eid weekend so not much internet time.  But have had plenty of knitting done.  I should have a finished cardigan by the end of today.

I will have proper blog content tomorrow.

About this writing business

3 Sep

The novel is an event in consciousness. Our aim isn’t to copy actuality, but to modify and recreate our sense of it. The novelist is inviting the reader to watch a performance in his own brain.
George Buchanan

When I was young, I used to imagine that people going about their daily lives have these thought bubbles that actually float around as they interact with each other. The proper “chat” bubble would show up when they speak audibly and the cloud-like bubble when they are thinking to themselves. Thanks to one of the Filipino’s national past time: comics!

I firmly believe, as others do, that you are a reader first, a writer second. I am not a voracious reader but I have had my share of novels; from the Mills and Boons of my early teenage years to the more mainstream of this generation. My bookshelf is lined with works from James Patterson, Jeffrey Archer, J K Rowling, Dan Brown, Cecelia Ahern, Jodie Picoult among others. And of course, I have my knitting books too!

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Cravings

31 Aug

Filipinos love their sweets. We have so many varieties of desserts that it would make your teeth ache just reading about them. Here in Dubai, we are a bit deprived of native delicacies.

Sure there are stuff out in the local supermarkets but they are not made with the same fresh ingredients that my grandfather used so they don’t necessarily taste the same. You would be hard pressed to find any decent sapin-sapin here.  So we make do with what sweets we can get our hands on.

Kids are easy.  Just give them something cold and sweet and they’re on Cloud 9.  Me, not so much.

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Superspecial Rare Gems

25 Aug

When I posted a comment on one of Cristi’s blog posts, there were no other comments. But after I hit submit, I saw that someone beat me to first comment. Bummer, I thought but left it at that.

A few hours later, Cristi emailed me saying my comment was #2100 and so I have won her Every-1000th-Comment Contest! See, being patient, or slow in composing your comments pays off. And this little beauty is my prize.


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Club Dragon Witch

25 Aug

I love receiving parcels in the mail. Esp when it has yarn in it. Duh.

I have been on a self-imposed yarn diet for a few months now. That means no buying yarn off the shelf. Everything that I am receiving now comes from clubs which I subscribed to either late last year or earlier this year. Plus yarn which I acquire through other means. :)

This is the latest installment from Club Dragon Witch. Four down, two more to go. Here is the entire package: yarn, pattern, sweet and a little extra something.


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