Author: Mary-Frances

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Back to some crazy quilting inspiration

Back to some crazy quilting inspiration

I haven’t been doing much crazy quilting lately, but that doesn’t mean I don’t read all my favorite CQ blogs and do some drooling over the pretty stuff. First on my list of “wow” are the results of the Crazy quilting international purse competition. Wow! What’s cool is that these

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Always busy? Not sure

So, I seem to be forever posting here how busy the last week was – surely sometimes I have boring weeks? Don’t I? But in this case, the kids are wrapping up school (which means field day and a sunburn) and we had the graduation of our LONG time babysitter

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Crafty roundup!

I’ve had a few links I’ve wanted to post for a while, so bear with me – this may not read like a normal thread (a little scatter brained). First, for beginniners or even advanced who want a handy guild, be sure to download this fantastic little guide from Sew

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Seriously? In May

Ok, seriously, my son’s birthday is in a week and to my knowledge since he’s been alive (his now almost 9 years) I have not seen snow on his birthday! We used to always get a bounce house for heavens sake! Seriously, is this a joke? Really? Well, I guess

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Stitch night! How I love thee!

So, this is actually a DAY of stitching, Dianna and I went back down for our second Brazilian embroidery class – and then a piece that was a DEAD UFO and has been brought back to life (bwa ha ha). This is the piece I was working on in class,

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April comes to a close – very orangy

And as April comes to a close, so does my April Bead Journal project (orange is my favorite color): The charms on the back represent each of my family members and some feelings I was having at the time (yes, the Alien is DH) – it may look like hair,

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A gift and my April BJP Spirit doll

I’ve been trying to figure out how to write about something – oddly, I’ve never had this problem before (ha, ha) – but when I posted on Facebook our “big news” my husband was kind of ticked off at me. His point “it’s airing the family dirty laundry” (which I

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Beading for a cure – get a cute hippo!

OH MY! I LOVE hippos (not sure how many folks knew that). Along with an early pig fascination, hippos are my greatest love and check this lovely baby out: Qowzer! Isn’t she amazing? First, run (don’t walk) and bid on her here! If I had some extra cash, I’d run

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