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Craptastic garden design
“Have you walked up the road to see the house on the corner yet?” my sister in law asked. We were at a family reunion in small town Idaho. “Why,do they have, like, garden gnomes or something?” “Well,...
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Bear Sweaters
My mom likes to take the grand-kids to lunch and shopping for birthdays. She has more fun doing this than shopping alone for something that might not be just right. The kids look forward to it, too....
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Halloween Assemblage (art?)
They're so in love, and so grave... Last year we came across directions for very cool Halloween decorations in Cloth Paper Scissors magazine (click here -I’m a little obsessed with this magazine) The...
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The Gingerbread Contest
Wow. There are people who are much better at building things out of cookies than we are. Seriously. There is a model of the new library re-model, with some of the rectangular parts of the building...
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Ugly christmas sweater
“I’m just wondering what you are going to do when you’re a little old lady.” DH says as he watches me embellish a sweater with felted gingerbread men cut-outs. I don’t know. But I have to say I am in...
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Knitting at the top 10 percent of my ability
My Dad used to recommend skiing at the top 10 percent of your ability- his thought was that you wouldn’t improve if you just coasted along on the easy runs. For the past several years, I have been...
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I figured out why bike panniers are so expensive
We have a reservoir with a community beach very close to our house- totally within biking distance. (I know, everything’s in biking distance if you have enough time) but this one really is- literally a...
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Funky or Fugly?
See, the pink fading into brown, and then the baby poop green? I just don’t know. I’m making a baby blanket out of Noro Silk Garden sock yarn. I love this yarn– it is from Japan, and has lovely color...
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antique or vintage?
When I went to my hometown for the weekend, my mom offered me a quilt made by her grandmother Neal. She cautioned me, “Now, back in those days, they just made things from scraps, it isn’t all fabrics...
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Progress on the Duvet Cover
The previous owners of our house finished the basement in idiosyncratic ways- for example, when they installed the basement shower, the drain holes didn’t line up. That’s bad. They also put in a...
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