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Diary of a Mad Fat Girl – BlogHer Book Club
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I love my Kindle. I love the e-ink, I love the portability, I love having a dozen books in one place without having to carry a 20-pound book bag. I also love that I’ve been able to read some really great self-published books that I might [...]
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Green Smoothie – a Fruity, Tasty Breakfast Experiment
This week I’m on furlough from my job. While the unpaid part of this furlough isn’t the greatest, it’s really nice to have a week off from work, a week where I am not required, nay, not even allowed to have any contact with the office. That made it stressful last week while getting ready for [...]
Filed in: In the Kitchen
Embroidery: 2012 Calendar Finished
I’ve finished my very first embroidery project: the Curious Doodles 2012 calendar. I’m so incredibly proud of it. It was very simple, considering the pattern was printed on the tea towel and it only required backstitching, lazy daisies and french knots. I was worried about the french knots, but now that I know how to make [...]
Filed in: Needlework
The Rules of Inheritance – BlogHer Book Club
Oh, wow, this book. I love memoirs, because they give me peeks into real lives that are so incredibly different from my own. Claire Bidwell Smith’s memoir The Rules of Inheritance was absolutely, 100% the total opposite of my experience, and it was heartbreakingly captivating. Smith’s memoir is a collection of essays describing her life as she [...]
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Simple Hoop Project Pouches
I have a love/hate relationship with my sewing machine. Typically, I enjoy crafts that I can manipulate and create with my fingers and hands: knitting, crochet, and now needlework like cross-stitch and embroidery. When I put a machine between me and the materials I’m working with, I tend to run into trouble. When I use [...]
Filed in: Sewing
My Latest Obsession: Needlework
Many years ago, I used to cross-stitch. It was my go-to craft. I spent many an hour making wee little “X”s on Aida cloth, and enjoyed it. I cross-stitched during a dark time, called “the years before the Internet.” Which meant that I was limited to the patterns and floss that was available at my [...]
Filed in: Needlework
The Weird Sisters: BlogHer Book Club
I absolutely loved the latest BlogHer Book Club offering, The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown. Granted, I love Shakespeare, so this was really a no-brainer. The book follows the story of three sisters, the daughters of a Shakespeare-obsessed college professor who seems to only communicate through the Bard’s quotes. The sisters all return home to [...]
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Inevitable: Cat and Yarn
While I was photographing my sock, Zelda decided to check it out. Then she spotted the ball of yarn. And gave it an extra close examination (aka, sniff). And then the inevitable happened. Luckily I caught her before she ran too far with it. Oh, Zelda. Tweet
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Mystery Socks: In Progress
For a mostly crafty blog, this site has had very few craft posts in the new year. You’d think I haven’t been working on anything, but I really truly have. For most of January I spent most of my crafty time on a fairly complicated (for me) pair of socks. I worked on the Through the [...]
