Author: Mary-Frances

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Surfing blogs….a temporary single mom!

Well, hubby is gone. I have the two kids for 4 days and 3 nights (but who’s counting! Ha, ha!). Today was a little rough, but tomorrow should prove to be a bit easier…we’ll see. I got the house and my projects all organized so I’m hoping to be really

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Beware…mushy, romantic story!!

Hubby is on his way to Calgary Canada to visit an old High School friend from Australia. What makes this particularly cool is the story behind the visit to this friend (I think he’ll enjoy seeing him too tho by the way!). Almost 7 years ago, Rex saved up a

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Rain and Birthdays

We had to do a heap of gift shopping yesterday, followed by a huge party at one of Missy C’s little preschool friends. I bet there were 45 adults there and at least as many children. It was huge, but oddly a lot of fun!Today we’re finally celebrating Matey Moo’s

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A Sunny day and my new lappy!

It’s pretty scary when you get so close to a new piece of technology that you nickname it, but my lappy is getting a workout. I love taking it outside and watching the kids play, but in an effort to make myself more productive, I’m cranking out lists on backpackit…I’m

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Backpackit To DO list…my projects!

Well, in the spirit of last nights motivational get stitching night, I’ve posted my “To do project list” – This is a free tool from backpackit and it’s pretty neat. I’ve posted the last known photo of each of my projects, so as I blog an updated picture, I’ll update

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Stitch night, more on collections and needlework links.

Stitch night was wonderful last night…gave me inspiration to get off my tushie and back into stitching. Not sure why, but I’ve been “stuck” lately. In going through my “in progress” projects last night I seem to have an issue with a heap of projects that just need all the

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Machine embroidery and stitch night

Well, I’m off to stitch at Antonia’s, my friend from the Rocky Mountain Crazy Quilting group but wanted to quickly point all of you to my friend Leslie’s (also from the RMCQ group) blog: Pinyon Creek Stitchin’! Not only did she put up a fabulous picture of my round robin

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More Aprons

If you follow the link in the title, you’ll see the post on “Angry Chicken” that started all of this.If you scroll down there is a picture from a magazine and it’s of an apron that I have failed to photograph (oh horror!). Believe it or not, I not only

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Illustration Friday – Aquatic

What’s more aquatic to a mother than a kid in the tub…my son loves to be showered with water – I love the ripples in the bathtub around them…there were a bunch of photos, but I thought this one fit the theme the best.This is a digital photo I took

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