I've been sitting here, in the quiet of the early afternoon, with my cup of coffee, sewing up bunny heads and pondering just how it can be 28 years since these two young people went out on their first ever date
and yet yesterday their oldest child became a teenager. Doesn't time whizz when you're not paying attention to it?
Yes, that is me holding a very dodgy 'art' project which is supposed to represent a dragonfly wing. The homemade aran jumper is sound though, even back then I loved knitting – good job I've stuck to it and not sculpture eh?!
little cotton rabbits 
Not dodgy at all – beautiful…though I did wonder what it was at first.
I can’t match your twenty eight years, but our eldest will be a teenager in just a few month ‘oh blimey’ I hope it’s not going to be a rough ride.
Nina x
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Firstly, happy birthday to Amy, a teenager, wow!!! 🙂
What an amazing photo Julie, the aran sweater is beautiful, the sculpture’s pretty good too! 🙂
We were married 31 years last month, I really don’t know where time goes too, especially today when I have spent more time on the laptop instead of wielding a duster!!!!!. 😉
Vivienne x
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Time certainly does fly, Julie. I can remember knitting aran jumpers for my children, now aged 34, 32 and 26! And my Grandaughter is soon to become a teenager!
Never made a sculpture though! But I have just learnt to crochet….. and to blog!
Angie x
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Twenty two years for me, very frightening. I was a teenager just starting an engineering apprenticeship. Now I must be a grownup but time certainly does fly!! Sarah. Loving the jumper!!
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I can remember when Brian and I had been married ten years and thinking, “Wow, those ten years went by so fast and yet, looking ahead, ten years seems like such a long time”! Also, realizing that in ten more years our household would start to change drastically as the first of our goslings would be leaving the nest soon and then the next, and the next…… and as quickly as we added them to the nest, they’d leave just as quickly!
Your jumper is beautiful! I have to disagree with you though! 🙂 I knew that your art project was a wing and I thought it fabulous! I think you’ve more talent for sculpting than you give credit for. Especially as your little characters you knit are a form of sculpting that so many of us try our hardest to get a hold of!!!! 😀
Happy Birthday to your Amy. So many warned me that the teenage years are horrid. With a house full of teenagers I keep waiting for the horrid. I’ve really enjoyed the big people in this house!
Congratulations on your 28 years. Amy and Toby are so blessed to have you and your hubby as their mum and dad. My wish for you is that someone would come and watch your two while you and your hubby go out on a date and reminisce a little bit. 🙂 I wish I lived closer……. I know it is hard getting away…….. XXX000
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Happy Anniversary to you and your husband and also a very Happy 13th Birthday to your daughter. My daughter was 13 last week too! The time just seems to fly by so very fast. Hope you all have a lovely weekend :O)x
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Haha great photos. And nice jumper too.
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OMG, so sweet! I love your beautiful aran sweater. Gorgeous! And that sculpture is fantastic. How cool that you still have photos of it. =) Happy birthday to your daughter. And welcome to the teen parenting world to you and your husband. =)
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Congratulations to all! And congrats to on your mention in Simply Knitting magazine!
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Don’t start me on the whole time flying business! I think you look quite beautiful in that picture!
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Happy first date anniversary to you both and happy birthday to Amy…. and yes, time does fly.
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Love the picture 🙂 and Congratulations Julie to you and your husband on the 28 years and Happy Birthday to your daughter Amy. It is quite amazing how time does fly by.
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lovely photos, scarey how time whizzes by, i tend not to look at old photos as it always makes me sad.
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Oh, how I love these pictures. And the dragonfly wing. I’ve seen many a dodgy student art project in my time – this is not one of them: lovely detail, delightful texture, whimsy even then. But the jumper – HOLY CATS. Funny – I don’t even count the years much anymore. And one ceases to be quite so amazed after one’s baby is not only on the far side of teen-ness, but married in his own home. Life is a grand thing, a puzzling thing, a thing that leaves you blinking and thinking hard. But the one thing I know for sure is that whatever roads you and I have travelled, we have ended up friends – teenagers or not. You will live through that bit. It gets complicated, but it often turns out very well, indeed.
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Time flies by far to fast for my liking ! Can someone work out how to slow down time just a little? Loving the photos.
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above comment is a bit confusing meant to say looking at my own old photos makes me sad but i love looking at other peoples photos…you must post some of your wedding photos Id love to see them
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Thank you for sharing those photos and congratulations on such a long time together. I think that’s wonderful.
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I love your picture!!!
Congratulations to both the woman and the artist/knitter!!!
xxxx Alessandra
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Congratulations.
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Twenty eight years, that’s a huge achievement. We’re just approaching 25 years together, which seems astonishing since I still feel about nineteen!
Huge happy birthday wishes to Amy. It was so lovely to see you the the day!
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Hi Julie
Congratulations to you and your husband – it was our 26th Anniversary yesterday. Sophie will be 21 On Monday.
LOVE that Aran – we were both knitting Arans in the 80s, then? Gorgeous cables. Jamie is now wearing the one that I made for Kevin in 1984. It really looks as good as new. So much nicer than the poor qulaity ones in the shops, this year.
Happy Birthday to Amy. x
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Fantastic jumper. Congratulations on 28yrs!!
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Congratulations to you all,Julie.The jumper is beautiful, and the wing is amazing! If only you had created a second one to accompany it! Heres to wishing you all the very best for the next 28 years, and Amy a fabulous first year as a teenager.XX
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What a gorgeous picture of you! Happy 28 years to you both and happy birthday to Amy. Lovely to see you on Monday. G x
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Happy 28th Anniversary! We just had our 29th and it is alarming how time flies! Especially when there is so much knitting and
crafty projects to be done! Congrats to Amy on becoming a teenager- you are in for some fun years ahead! 🙂
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What great pictures! Ah, those youngsters did good. 🙂 May you enjoy many more years of happiness.
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It can be a weird feeling!
My eldest turns 18 next Wednesday and I’m not entirely sure how I feel about that…
And oh, the 80s photos! 😀
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My eldest turned 13 just two weeks ago… it seems like just yesterday he was a baby!
I love the aran jumper. My favourite jumpers as a teen were aran ones too 🙂
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ooo Happy Anniversary and I love your Aran jumper.
🙂
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I love that photo and its an amazing creation, so much like a delicate dragonfly wing…beautiful! Love the jumper too, always wanted an aran jumper, too hot to wear one here now. Congratulations on 28 yrs of happiness and hooray for teenagers…just keep knitting 🙂
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Congratulations on your 28th anniversary. A handsome guy you married and I love your jumper. It reminds me of one my Gran knitted for me many years ago and I have stored it away as I can’t part with it.
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Happy Anniversary! What a wonderful pictorial. I so enjoy your blog each and every time I visit. ~Kelly
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Brilliant photos! We will celebrate our 25th anniversay soon, as you say – where does the time go? I knitted an aran jumper in the 80s with my Mum, I did the cuffs she did the rest! xx
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Happy, happy anniversary! And now I shall lock myself in my closet and cry softly to myself because I could never have made that sweater in my early twenties, and I certainly could not master it now.
My knowledge of modern sculpture is limited: my frist thought was that something had gone very wrong during your bike repair. 😉 But the sweater makes me do the Rumplestilskin dance of petulance.
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Happy Anniversary and Happy Birthday. Wow! A teenager. How exciting. On 9-26 we celebrated our 48th. I can’t believe it. Looks like I’m one of the oldest to write a comment on your blog. I loved the Aran jumper along with the photos. Aren’t the older photos fun to look back at? Where does the time go! Love your blog, your bunnies and your courage, patience, talent and everything else that makes you so special.
Joan the Knitter
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We used to sit in the 6th Form common room knitting up a storm. I remember one mohair batwing creation I made on broomhandles… Happy Birthday to the teenager!!
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Toby looks just like his Dad.
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What a wonderful portrait of you! And somehow you look exactly right, almost as if I’d known you all along, which is crazy, because I can hardly say I ‘know’ you now! I wouldn’t have predicted the art project though! That is rather fun. And the sweater is fabulous 😀
31 years for us, which is very, very scary!
A belated Happy Birthday to Amy x
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I love your pictures Julie – how is it that 28 years can simultaneously be a lifetime and yet only moments ago?
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Happy belated birthday to Amy…and congratulations to you both…wonderful photographs! I had a lovely swap land on my doorstep a couple of weeks ago..from America…and at the end was the wish I send to you…”Much love and may your yarn never tangle!” Jenni x
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Aw congratulations! 🙂
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Wonderful pictures, and congratulations! DH and I celebrated our 35th anniversary last spring and our eldest (33) is getting married in 3 weeks! It does get easier after they get over their adolescent angst.
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Hi Julie,
Congratulations on the 28 years – it is unbelievable how quickly the time flies!
I had the exact same shoes as you. I loved them and think I bought more than one pair. Your photo has brought back lots of memories.
Emma xx
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Congratulations!!! Beautiful sweater….he is one lucky to guy to have a talented women and wonderful mother for his children!!!
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What beautiful pictures! And I had a pair of those shoes too! I had my own aran made by Nana Bridie, my godmother’s mum, and I loved it, used to pretend I was in Haircut100 just on the basis of that jumper. I’m envious your knitting was that good when you were so young, talent spilling out of you right from the start! Thank you for sharing your memories, congratulations!
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I am ordering good bouncing weather for tomorrow, Toby’s birthday. Very best wishes to you all.
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I love the Aran sweater with the pearls AND the dragon fly wing!
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Such wonderful photos Julie – so nice to ‘meet’ H at last! x
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I’m really enjoying the design and layout of your site. It’s a very easy on the eyes which makes it much more pleasant for me to come here and visit more often. Did you hire out a designer to create your theme? Excellent work!
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