Author: Mary-Frances

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I’m still working! I swear! :-)

Well, here’s the sofa with the completed disfunctional family pillows. I have two more to do, but can’t figure out how to do it.I’ve updated my UFO list and marked the pillows as completed. I’ll put the other two back on if I decide what to do with them.I was

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Tiny town that wasn’t and a rainy day

Good heavens, it’s been really rainy here lately. Normally this is “high plains” so VERY dry, but it’s been raining a LOT lately. Today, our trip to Tiny Town got rained out. This is the worlds cutest place if you have preschoolers….the buildings are WONDERful to crawl around in, they

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Lappy at work – still needs embellishment!!

Well, I had an appointment with my laptop and got to take my lappy bag:It’s looking a little bare, and there’s a pin at the end of the yellow flower embellishment, but it was together enough to put my laptop in.This is going to be the pocket on the one

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Bopping to the GoGos!

I admit it, I’m a child of the 80’s. We’ve been listening to Retroactive, which is a “station” that comes as part of our cable TV…it’s great. Anyway, so after that relaxing dance break, I’m back to working on this – my bag for my laptop:That’s the “suggested” layout for

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why I hate my sewing machine

Ok, I have a confession to make, and knowing my blog audience, this may be a scandalous revelation, but I hate sewing machines! Not my machine in particular (I have a great Singer, that Leslie traded me for some webwork) but ALL sewing machines. Now, the interesting part of this

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I have an OTT-Lite (well, sort of!)

This post was going to be called “While the cat’s away”…but I thought that sounded too sexist! After all, I’m sure my husband is off spending money and not looking at the bank accounts either! 🙂 Well, the kids and I went shopping today! We’d planned on going to a

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Projects in the works this weekend!

This is hopefully the first of many progress posts this weekend. I hope they aren’t boring to you experts! But here it goes: Here’s my laptop case in progress:I’m using an old (very old…ie: damaged) patchwork babyblanket for the case and then going to put some denim pockets and I

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