Archive | December, 2006

Crafty gifts

December 15, 2006

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Every year, I think long and hard about what gift(s) to give our landlord and landlady. They are just wonderful people, but it’s difficult to know very well what they like. They’re German, of course, and retired, and pretty much have everything they need. Things to eat and drink seem safe, and are usually well [...]

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Quilting with Patches and Shadow: What cats do

December 12, 2006

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Here’s how Patches spent his morning: in one of his favorite places sleeping off the late night last night. Their schedules are all out of whack because of our late nights over the past few days, so he’s catching up I think. Then there’s Shadow: While I did my quilting (before I did anything “work-ish” [...]

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When you look up and your Page-a-Day calendars are still on 7 December

December 12, 2006

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You know you’ve been busy. It’s been so crazy that I’ve had no time to quilt (not even that hour a day we were all supposed to do ). Our busy party weekend of the season hit me last Friday, and it’s been non-stop! I had a dress crisis (situation helped to the crisis point [...]

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Reader Project: just an hour a day

December 7, 2006

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This week is starting to feel most definitely unproductive. I got a lot done quilting-wise over the weekend, but since then I get up every morning with the goal of quilting during the day at some point, and somehow before I know it, it’s time to fix dinner, and then the day’s over and I [...]

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Inspirational Quilting

December 3, 2006

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I found my way to the APQS forum where the longarm quilter gals hang out, and I saw this absolutely stunning quilting, and just had to share. I can’t post the pic here of course, but you can follow these links to the first pic, and the second one (you’ll need to scroll down the [...]

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