Hi! I"m Jeanne aka LifeInCle on
Twitter and
Instagram.
I am a 30-something (is 34 still early 30's?) knitter and all around creative type. I
knit. I
sew. I
dye yarn. I make things. Like this sweater:
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| Rocking the hand knits in February 2010 - I knit this traditional stranded sweater in 16 days for the Knitting Olympics. Hells. Yeah. |
I was an architect and a world traveler until my life was happily
hijacked in 2009 and I became a stay at home mom.
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| The Life in Cleveland Family. 3 out of 5 of us are wearing hand knits. |
This blog is mostly about my adventures with my kids - a fashion obsessed redheaded kindergartner, a preschooler so cool he's The Dude, and our youngest, a toddler we call Tiny.
I knit and drink wine as much as possible (well when I'm not pregnant).
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| Thrilled not to be pregnant anymore. |
I am a born and raised Clevelander. This is my hometown.
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| The Life in Cleveland Family. April 2011. Lake Erie and Cleveland in the background. Just as it should be. |
We are raising our children IN Cleveland. The city proper. We have a Cleveland address and our daughter goes to a Cleveland Metropolitan School District school. This is the city we love and we are committed to it wholeheartedly. Even if my husband is a Steelers fan:
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| A really big Steelers fan. |
This is my husband, Matt:
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| Rocking the hand knits. This is his Durrow aka the Brit Killing Sweater. It took me 2 years to complete. Yeah |
He's an architect, too. We sat next to each other in our very first architecture studio at the University of Cincinnati. We were married in October of 2004:
We used to do all sorts of crazy awesome things like this:
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| Machu Picchu, September 2007. We hiked here via the 3 day Inca Trail as part of a 2 week adventure in Peru. |
Now our crazy awesome looks more like this:
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| 3 small children at Disney was way more harrowing than the Inca Trail. |
We have 3 kids. I don't always write the THREE in capslock anymore but we're still getting used to being the #Stevensonpartyof5
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| THREE WAS REALLY SCARY AT FIRST. |
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| Three is less scary now they can all walk and talk? |
We also have a dog. She's a Basset Hound / Jack Russel Terrier mix that we rescued thinking she was an adult dog. Turns out she's actually younger than my first kid.
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| Pictured: Not a good dog. But a cute dog who's good with kids so... |
So yeah. That's me. Feel free to pull up a chair and stay awhile!
