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Sewing Gifts
We were up at 4:45 this morning to get our daughter and son-in-law to the airport on time for their obscenely early flight. It's not even noon yet and by now they have arrived, taken a cab home, picked...
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Good Riddance 2012
On Saturday, we took down the tree, put away the decorations, and dusted and vacuumed ready to start the new year with everything fresh and clean. I enjoyed the time with family but now that Christmas...
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Three Rows Of Ruffles
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments and that bridge must be crossed daily. Over time, that daily crossing...
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Use The Good Buttons
Since the last two Tuesdays have been holidays, the knitting group met last night instead. We went to the organizer's home, had dinner, ate dessert, and spent the evening knitting and talking. Well -...
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Victoria mentioned John Maxwell's book The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential in a recent posting. It sounded good so I ordered a copy and it's not just good, it's...
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Instead of reading and writing this morning, I drank my coffee on the couch in the living room and watched fat, fluffy snowflakes drift to earth in shifting patterns and thought about how amazing...
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Sequential & Consecutive
I walked back from the mailboxes yesterday afternoon with the woman from thirty-six. When you live in a complex like ours, you tend to identify yourself by unit number as it gives a point of reference....
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Near Fatal Flaws
Last night was knit night - the first time in our new location, twenty minutes away, down the hill, across the bridge, and over to the north shore - except that every few minutes there was a warning on...
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Top Of The Tickle List
A friend was over for coffee yesterday. We discussed getting things done. She works full time. I don't. Her job requires flexibility. Mine doesn't. She'll be working on one project and suddenly she's...
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After Seeing The Light
Let's start with an apology for the blurred and not so wonderful photos to follow. They were taken late yesterday afternoon when the light was at its absolute worst in the studio and couldn't be...
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False Promises
By the late '70s, my interest in sewing had merged with my path as an artist, which I chose to pursue through fabric. While studying art at the University of Oregon, one of the best things I learned...
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Shiny Objects, Distractions & Detours
Our hot water tank is not hot anymore. Sometime after we went to bed, it started to leak and when our son got home from work at one o'clock, he noticed and woke up Howard who turned everything off....
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Good. Enough. Done. Gone. Next.
Tuesday night is knit night and - once again - I wasn't there. The plumbers arrived at 4:00 and didn't leave until 7:30 while noting that it would have been another forty-five minutes for the tank to...
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Eighteen Inches
Yesterday was another curl up on the couch with a warm snuggly blanket and knit and read day. I didn't feel like sewing. I did knit...... eighteen inches on the sock gone scarf. Talk soon -...
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New This Week
In their new look book, Anthropolgie talks about (their) five signatures of style, one of which is the plain tee. Of course! Plain! Last year, when I was sewing and wearing plain t-shirts, I was out of...
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Today Matters
Last fall, I decided to give my journal writing more direction by using a study guide as a starting point. The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth was so useful that I chose another of John Maxwell's books -...
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The Flow Of Ideas
Do you ever say something out loud as if saying it out loud will make it so or put something in writing because by writing it down that thing that you're wishing for will actually happen? I don't think...
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The Aging Sewist
A friend of my husband's keeps asking us to go to Mexico with him and his wife... and lie on a beach... for two weeks... at an all inclusive. Lying on a beach is so NOT me and I cannot imagine any...
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The Thoughtful Dresser
In a recession there is the temptation to stop buying clothes, and at first this can be superficially soothing, for the soul can sicken on consumerism, shopping and spending. There is a mother lode of...
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Patterns From The Skinny Years
When we set out to buy new clothes we are taking along not only an interest in fashion, but also an internal hell of insecurity or self-loathing about what it is to be clothed, and because we're buying...
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