watching: Once Upon a Time

On ABC, Sunday nights, Once Upon a Time appeals to the princess-loving girlie in all of us.  Do you have favorite television?  I’ve been pretty blah on most of it lately, but who can resist pretty dresses, handsome princes/huntsmen, and lots of over-the-top good versus evil where everything is black and white? I think there [...]

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The journey to spring 01-30-12

I’m going to start chronicling through photos the approach of spring in my garden.  I know this isn’t earth-shattering for everyone out there, but I’m hoping around next July the series of photos will be an interesting reflection of the subtle changes week to week among my  plants, and at least it will amuse me, [...]

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Surprising myself

Everybody knows I am a Mac person, right, and loathe pcs when I have to use them, right? Why make a machine that is intentionally difficult to navigate and user unfriendly? Yeah, I know we could have the argument all day (the comparatively low price is a check mark on the positive side of pcs). [...]

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Doing a fabric dance

Yay, lovely new fabric! I picked up the plain gray at Walmart, because it was $1.50 a yard. Geez, I should have bought the whole bolt, right? I did go back and buy an additional yard, so happy there was still some left. I realized I’d need more, if I wanted to end with a [...]

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more paintings for ebay

How embarrassing, I haven’t done anything worth posting about all week…hmm, you would think something must have happened of note. Thinking hard. Nope. Huh. I better be busier this next week! So, failing actual activity, I have a few more paintings to show off. I guess for anybody else, who had less time for painting, [...]

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slow newsday, but a few new paintings for ebay

I don’t have any crafts to show off, I’m knitting scarves as I mentioned a couple posts back, and I’m cutting out quilt blocks for 2 different quilts from fabric my sister gave me, and from bits and pieces. This year’s motto is the same as last year’s: “Make do with what you’ve already got, [...]

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sewing: final project for 2011

I just realized I was sooo close to saying, “First project of 2012 finished!” but no. I did this yesterday, New Year’s Eve day. Sewing the cushions was a 1-day-project, but only because I happened to have all the supplies miraculously on hand. For Christmas, my dad finished making the beech chair frame. This project [...]

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