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starting the New Year in the right way
How? By adding to the stash, of course! Last week, I visited the Big Box Store (not the real name of the store; it’s a crafts and home-wares chain store) to buy some fabric to bind Dotty Bright. While...
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four years ago today
Time certainly flies - I can't believe it's been four years!Happy anniversary DD and SIL!
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Sew Thinky Thursday
Sometimes, my problem is that I think too much! I over-analyse and have a tendency towards detailed introspection. So I don’t really need any encouragement.But this linky party over at Mommy’s Nap Time...
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a month of UFOs?
For those who are participating in 2013: The Year of the Finished Project, don’t panic – your post is not due until the first Thursday of the month: that is, February 7.My blog friend, Carrie, of A...
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sleepy Sunday
You know that feeling you get when you've had a lovely meal? Time for siesta?Well that's how I feel this afternoon. We went out for lunch with friends after church and had a great time of food and...
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"Earth and Sky" quilt
One of my focus projects for February is to turn some (or all) of my improv blocks (made 2011-2012 in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge over at SoScrappy blog) into a quilt.I spent quite a long time on...
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2013: the Year of the Finished Project – February
How did you go in January?What plans do you have for your UFOs/WiPs in February?Write your post which answers these two questions (you can be as expansive – or not – as you like). Then join up with the...
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I've been Liebstered!
Two followers of my blog, Chris (Shared Creativity) and Janet (Caribou Crossing Chronicles), have nominated me for the Liebster award. I am deeply honoured.As part of the award, I have to answer 11...
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I've been Liebstered (part 2)
As explained in yesterday's post, Christ (Shared Creativity) and Janet (Caribou Crossing Chronicles) nominated me for the Liebster Award.Here are the rules:You must post 11 random things about...
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need supersedes planning
As you would know, I have a focus list of projects to work on this month. I have planned which project I will work on and in what order.But last Monday, my quilting teacher asked all of us who knit...
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the joy of belonging to a local library
Having access to free books from the local library is such a blessing! I have borrowed from a local library since my earliest school days and I tend to take it for granted. Now, in this wonderful age...
View Articleanonymous comments no longer accepted
Last week, I was thrilled to see that my blog had received over 100,000 hits in its lifespan.Today, I am not thrilled that six out of six comments left on my blog were irrelevant spam! Do these...
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480 and counting
Thank you to all of you who left comments supporting me through my family “issues”. I should not have used that word, “situations” would have been better but I couldn’t think of a better word when I...
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2013: the Year of the Finished Project -- March
The second half of February was a non-crafting fortnight for me. Apart from attending my weekly quilting class and knitting some hats for the local hospital's neo-natal unit, I did almost no knitting,...
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This is why....
In a previous post, I mentioned two family “issues” which I should have called “situations”.The first was a good one, resulting in a closer relationship with my husband, a Wonderful Man (WM).The second...
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My friend Susan, who blogs at Susan in Stitches, posted a video on her blog recently.It made me cry it was so beautiful. I know I'm sad at the moment and likely to cry easily but when I looked at the...
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To each of us there comes a time, when valleys we must face.The walls seem steep, no end in sight, yet always there is grace.from the poem "Valleys" by Debra Isenbletter Last weekend, WM and I had a...
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Black Stump Creek quilt finished
I finished this quilt three weeks ago but had forgotten to take photos so that I could post about it!This is the quilt that I had concerns about whether I had pulled the top tight enough when basting....
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What is that?
Yesterday I asked you if anyone had any idea what this is?This reflection of my laundry tub tap, my friends, is perfectly clean drinking water (in an old orange bucket) after I hand-rinsed a few pieces...
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one of those days
You know the kind I mean. Where you seem to take two steps forward and one step back.Where more ripping takes place than progress.I started out with these:When I first started at Caring Hearts...
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