Author: Mary-Frances

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Daily Monster (no, not my kids!)

This is a quickie post because I’m working on several things and can’t seem to hit the “POST” button on any of them. Designer Jon Hicks has been drawing little monster pictures that he puts in his son’s lunchbox every day: Daniel’s Daily Monster. I think this is the COOLEST

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Herb & Dorothy

A must see on my list: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5307526&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Herb & Dorothy Selected Clip #1 from Herb & Dorothy on Vimeo.

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Sigh – Pop culture has a bad day.

Ok, I wasn’t going to do it – I hate blogging on “pop” topics and in fact except for a few deaths – almost never have. However, Farah Fawcett passing away (yes, I tried DESPERATELY to have her hair do) – which was sad because of her valiant fight against

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Mail love and my rearranged office

Yay! I love the mail and especially when it has checks, Piecework magazine and FACES from Leslie (if you aren’t already familiar with her from Crazy Quilt International then pop over and say hi – she sells these faces!)! Yay! Aren’t these faces fabulous!! I’m sort of afraid I’ll mess

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Piggy progress and a bit of interlacing

So, I played with some interlacing: It isn’t quite like the stitch I was trying to replicate, but I found that was a bit chunky for this delicate stitch (you can click on the picture and zoom in if you’re curious). I like it – and my daugher is proud

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Lace, Lace everwhere!

This is a quick and fun read if you’re into women’s relationships, historic needlework, crafting or fashion (totally up my alley!). Kate Robinson is a fashion designer who’s mother has just died of cancer, who’s boyfriend just dumped her. So, she leaves the mess of her life behind her and

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Now THESE are storm clouds!

So, I was excited by this storm – now THESE are storm clouds!! Before the rain, I took the kids out and showed them what real “pre-tornado” clouds look like – really fluffy and tornado like. We usually don’t get them that look like this in Denver. So, about 20

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Crafting for human rights

My goal today is to clean the house and then create. We’ll see – I’ve had these hopes before. I was “inspired” (if that’s the word) by a link to this post on Pat Winter’s blog. As you may know (read old posts?), we just got back from El Paso

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