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Shopping, Check. Decorating, Check.
I spent the entire day yesterday decorating the house. I tell you, that is a job and a half. I am very happy with the way things turned out though. My new discovery this year are micro mini lights that have a battery pack. I love these little lights and have them in a half…
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Still Laughing?
Are you all still laughing at me? Ha ha. What a dummy I am. "Anyone know the block pictured here?" "It sure looks like the one on your blog header Nicole…" Honestly. Sometimes when I put these posts together it's late and I am definitely done with my day. I swear chardonnay had absolutely nothing…
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Anybody Know What Pattern This Is?
Isn't this a cool block pattern? I found a link for this quilt on the internet. The link went to Lovely Rita's blog: http://lovelyritablog.blogspot.com/2012/04/flower-posts-and-sashing-machine.html. The blog is called Lovely Threads, and evidently Rita does long arm machine quilting (beautifully). There was no pattern source given, and although a reader inquired what the pattern was, there…
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Sometimes You Just Can’t Do It All
I worked on Eva's Christmas placemat a bit over the past few days, but seem to have had a relapse of my cold. Yesterday I felt completely rotten, and aside from mustering the energy to make some chicken barley soup, I spent the day on the couch. So, no sewing. Probably won't be any for…
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Ok, I Am Skipping Thanksgiving and Moving Right Into Christmas
Not really, but aren't these little cookies festive? The recipe was in a magazine I picked up at the grocery store. "America's Test Kitchen's Best Ever Christmas Cookies". I must add these to my repetoire, they are delicious. If you already make this kind of chocolate cookie with a Hershey's Kiss in it, you can…
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Crisis on the Home Front
We had a major crisis Wednesday. Eva's preschool has had four really good teachers leave within the past six weeks or so. As a former preschool teacher and director, this raised a major red flag for me. So, I picked up the phone and asked to speak to the director. I didn't want to…
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Exciting Fabric Haul
I am dying to share with you some fabric I recently purchased, not to show off, but to introduce you to some fabulous new collections you might not know about. The fat quarters shown above are from a new group called Another Point of View by Windham Fabrics. There are four colorways, Pomegranate, Blueberry, Apple…
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Eva’s Big Girl Room
I get requests now and then to show pictures of various rooms in my house, and thought you might enjoy seeing Eva's new Big Girl bed and early Christmas decorations. Even though it isn't four feet taller and is missing a ladder, she seems pretty pleased with her new bed. She hasn't fallen out, mainly…
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Last Dresden Plate Block Done
Finally, the last applique stitch done on the 12th Dresden Plate block from the, what, 2011 Scrappy Plate Sew Along? The time it took me to get through this is making me reconsider doing all those Orange Peel blocks with hand applique. Anyway, now they are all done and of course I cannot…
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Gobble Gobble
"Gobble Gobble", said the turkey."Soon it will be Thanksgiving Day.Will you eat me?How you treat me!I think I'll run away!" This is a little placemat I just had to make when I saw it on Lori Holt's blog. She has a tutorial for making the 12 inch turkey block, and a pattern you can buy…
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