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Decisions, decisions…

How fabulous would life be, if the most pressing matter on your mind was which Amy Butler Midwest Modern fabric to use in your new holiday skirt?  Join me in this happy little fantasy world, won’t you?  And solve my most pressing dilemma: Martini… …or Optic Blossom? The plan is to wear the same black […]

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Impressions

Reading about yourself in the third person can be an odd experience.  You might find yourself thinking any number of second-guessing kind of thoughts, such as: Did I really say that? (Sorry, Mom – I think something got lost in translation, and I don’t ever remember our crafting together ending in tears. Driving lessons and […]

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Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup

Poor Neil.  He doesn’t subscribe to the theory that soup can be considered a meal.  It never used to be an issue between us, but somewhere in the last year, I went and became a soupie.  I’ve been seduced by these steaming bowls of goodness.  Where once I was of the mind that the only […]

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Finally. The Christmas Napkins.

Please tell me these will be our “forever napkins.”  I don’t think I can spend another Late November / Early December cranking out napkin after napkin after napkin.  *yawn* I do so love the results.  But the actual making?  of 28 napkins?  Well, it’s a little boring. And that’s why it took me 2 weeks […]

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There are no rules in Christmas decorating

It’s a small thing, really, but it still took entirely too long to hit me:  Decorating for Christmas does not have to be a One Day Event. It does not have to be like the one festive Sunday of my childhood, a few weeks before Christmas, when we would put up the tree and decorate […]

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An end to the (almost) silence

Whew.  Glad that‘s over.  Interesting as it was to try and take reasonably compelling photos of everyday tasks and let them speak for themselves here, I do prefer being able to sit down for a while in the evenings with my thoughts and share a bit.  And that includes words.  Often many of them. So, […]

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