My daughter is a talented craftsman who works primarily with fabric and her trusty sewing machine. You may have seen her work in her Anodyne Design shop on Etsy. (Um, Sweetie, your shop is empty.  Time to start sewing something fabulous again.) It makes me happy that crafting is something she and I can share [...]

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Billie stopped over yesterday afternoon and we did a quick holiday project. These sparkly balls are even prettier in person and really pretty easy to make.
You take a clear glass ball and remove the cap. Then you squirt in some dye ink and add a small splash of water. I’m not giving you amounts because [...]

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Billie and Arlynne came over today to make clocks from CD cases. Chris couldn’t make it because she is very sick with a cold. She sounded just awful when she called and only wanted to get off the phone and back to bed for a nap. I feel for her, I hate having a bad [...]

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I love collecting images during my travels around the internet. So much so that I get a little carried away with it and my jump drive is bursting at the seams. For a while now I’ve been doing a lot more collecting than using and I’ve been thinking that it is time to do something [...]

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This has been quite an exciting week. It started off on Monday when Billie came over to help me teach our friend, Patty, how to play Cribbage. I was getting some killer hands and having a grand old time. Then I got to be part of the fun as The Boy found his first home [...]

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While the girls were here on Friday we were busy working on a bird project.  Billie had seen some artwork at the Art Unraveled sale that looked like fun so she took a photo and showed it to us. The pieces at the sale were painted canvas with paper birds, eggs, nests, etc glued on [...]

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