Five lengths of fabric out of the craft closet. Two of them are leftovers from other projects (you can see a bit of that green/blue stripe in the background – I used it for curtains in the home office/craft room), the other three were meant for long ignored projects that I’ve…
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The first house I remember growing up in was this little ranch on a cul-de-sac. The front of the house was lined with hedges, there was a crab apple tree in one part of the front yard and a birch tree, maybe – I don’t remember what it was, actually,…
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Well, the garden is sorta planted. I still have peppers to plant, and a tomato plant. There are still zucchini seeds to get in there and cucumbers and such, too. It seems I’ve lost my enthusiasm this year for it. The garden, now, feels like something I used to do…
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While in Chicago I swung by Loopy Yarns for some souvenir yarn. The store is on the southern part of the loop, close to where the husband had his conference at the Hilton, so it was a fairly quick walk to visit after our lunch. It was incredibly tempting to…
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Coming back from vacation, I immediately set out to take advantage of my new-found motivation and start purging. I’ve done this before, but my binges end as quickly as they start. I just get burnt out and overwhelmed. I want to document a bit the things I remove from my…
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We arrived home yesterday, much to my relief. By Saturday I was getting home sick and missing the baby, to the point where that night I packed as much as I could so we’d have less to do Sunday, and then Sunday morning we were up and out of the…