I’m on a roll!

We went out Thursday and purchased a new HD television! Not only that but – yesterday morning – Ed set it up and it works. I wish I worked as well. I wish I understood electronics. I wish I could handle the on-screen virtual keyboard that’s supposed to let me label the channels to which [...]

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It’s amazing . . .

. . . what you can do when you actually do stuff! Just today I’ve bathed the Yorkie, thawed meat for supper, made lunch, cut out all and basted most of the new vanes for the windmill project and – praise anybody who cares – hemmed the damned jeans!
I honestly think that a part of my [...]

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Autumn leaves

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It’s been a good week.

I’ve been getting things done! Not just laundry and housework (not a lot of housework, actually) but real things. I picked up the new cushions I ordered made for the kitchen sofa. They look fine; they should wear well and I didn’t have to make them. I bought a new copy of the latest Adobe [...]

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Week in a nutshell – how appropriate!

Took this piece into the gallery Tuesday:

Hand- and machine-stitched fabric, stretched on a frame,  with a wood block print (on fabric) for the swing, beads, yarn . . . .  It’s big, probably about 2 1/2 feet by 4 and looks better than it photographed (which is not surprizing given that turning on the camera [...]

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Playing catch-up

Tried to post my “Self as Goddess” doll on Ravelry the other day but without success. Sometimes it works, sometimes not so I’ll post it (them) here (maybe?) for anyone interested. It was a beta test for a friend’s pattern but kind of got inspired by the Venus of Willendorf whom I have come more [...]

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