crafty: drawing journals

I linked to the info on these drawing cases a while back (I bet you can find it under the one-day-projects tag), and now that we are so close to the holidays I find I have made two too many.  Yep, after handing them out to everybody I possibly can, I still have two left over. [...]

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crafts for Christmas

I am doing my best to have a bunch of hostess-gift type items on hand to give out to people who show up at the door with cookies. My favorite little gift for this year is cloth dinner napkins. Well, they are sized more like lunch napkins. I get 6 out of a yard of [...]

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craft roundup (or things I would like to make before Christmas)

I know a list of links without accompany pictures is pretty blah, but hey, maybe my brief description will make you curious enough to go see. I’m too lazy to figure out the addresses to the pictures, but trust me, all these things would be great gifts for me you to make. This is also [...]

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visiting the pumpkin patch

As much as I don’t like the bone chilling cold of winter, I do like the colors and scents of autumn. So far, autumn has been awfully mild and we’re thankful of that. And who can kick off the season without a trip to the pumpkin patch? Our impromptu pre-school class went to ride the [...]

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food: caramels

I thought I’d make a big double batch of caramels after a friend gave me some last year at this time. Home made is nothing like the store bought ones. Cream, butter, and sugars. Can’t go wrong with that, can you? Well, if you keep the ingredients amounts exactly right, I guess. I was short [...]

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crafty: drawing books for kids

This summer has been packed full of stuff that is not crafty, sewing, painting, or me sitting-around-reading-a-book related, so I have not had so much to post about. “We went swimming today,” or “we went to the park,” is good only so many times. I have done a tiny bit of sewing though, and am [...]

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holiday cooking

I made shortbread this year using this recipe at recipesource. I did not make any changes to it. I did roll out the dough to half an inch thick and then used a mini cookie cutter. I used one piece of red sugar for each eye. Cute, no? I also made lime curd which turned [...]

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small town life

We went to see the light display the city puts on every Christmas. Usually theres a long waiting list for the carriage ride through the display but we got there early and were first in line. If you look past the shoulder of the driver you will see two black horses. I really had to [...]

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counting down the days….

The Christmas catalogs have been trickling in, and I imagine the floodgates will let loose pretty quick. I don’t throw them all out, I do look through them because you never know what treasure you might otherwise have missed. Today, I pulled out some photos to remind me of things I’d like to make. Aside: [...]

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getting closer….

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