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I as I stated previously, our house is cold.  Our house has also adopted a very asian custom of shoes off at the door, which keeps the whole place a lot cleaner what with the chicken shit all over the back yard and the muddiness of our special Oregon locale.  I never liked to take my shoes off while growing up– it just seemed too cold– but it occurred to me as an adult that this was because I never had any slippers.  Now I have slippers and believe it or not, they are really important to me.  I spend most of the day in them as a matter of fact (Yes, I am working, but you can do a lot wearing slippers!).

I am a lucky, lucky girl.  I have not one, but TWO sources for homemade slippers, and they are both right here in my fam-damily!  Source one is my lovely and very talented mother-in-law, Sue.  She knits up these cute, colorful little things with pom poms on the toes.  She is a big football fan, so she has been known to knit in school colors.  Want a pair?  Too bad.  Are you her daughter-in-law?  I didn’t think so.

Source two is my very own auntie Therese who knits and crochets and felts and does pretty much any old thing with yarn.  She is an avid recycler of art supplies and she has mastered the art of buying up wool sweaters from Value Village, making them into ingenious things and shrinking the hell out of them so that they are nearly air tight!  I got a pair of her slippers in the Christmas exchange, and I tell you, I love them.  The felting technique makes them super hardy, sort of thick but still flexible.  This is the sort of thing that you can curl up under a blanket in and never feel weird that you are still wearing your slippers.  They sort of hug your toes.  I tell you— I love ‘em!  She has an Etsy site too if you care to check it out.  I think she is sort of giving things away, but what the hell— that is her prerogative!  And for this, I grant homemade slippers as one of THE BEST!

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