Author: Mary-Frances

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An interview with Elle

Gosh, the title makes it sounds like I’ve “made it big”, eh? I’m not sure how many of you have run across this new “exercise” on other blogs – but it’s to have folks interview you. I think it’s cool to have to research other people on the net, come

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My illustration Friday – Bloom

I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time and finally got a subject easy enough and time to do it. This is colored with prismacolors and then put together as a collage in my journal. Then I scanned the whole thing into photoshop and played with it.As it

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AOL blogging question – help with ring code

I have a question for any of you out there “in the know”…a very nice gal is trying to complete the ring on the bloggers who embellish webring and she has AOL’s blogging tool. Does anyone know how to post the webring code on AOL? Let me know…she’s tried to

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Stitch night!

Well, I am LOVING having a designated night to stitch. It’s fantastic. Great food, relaxing…trading ideas.Here’s Holly (who joined us for the first time last night) working on her beaded butterfly. I didn’t get a close up of this fantastic piece, but I’ll get her to bring it to the

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Sneak peek of stitch night

Hey all, I’m tired and going to bed, but just HAD to get this little sneak peek up (to tease those RMCQ’ers who missed tonight! I told you I’d bring my camera!) You all missed it! – (there were three of us there tonight!). More tomorrow!!!

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A new stitch, fish anatomy and stitch “issues”

I’m finally done with my portion of Antonia’s round robin and I think it looks pretty good:The original inspiration for all of this was the peach shells which I thought went great. I needed to do one more seam embellishment so I decided to try the Basque Stitch from Sharon

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Blogging, stitching, ebay and candles of my!!

It’s a busy day here in Cloudy but warm Denver Colorado (warm in the winter here is 54F or 12c)- Rog is busy making candles (I’ll have to get some pictures tomorrow…it’s way too crazy and hazardous in candle making world!), I’m stiching on my round robin and watching a

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Felting and spending the day reading blogs

I found this site via Pam Rubert at Pamdoras box and I know some of you art quilters are going to love this needle felting of her friend Rosemary’s. I was truly inspired, but I have to say I’m afraid to get into needle felting…I need another hobby like I

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Photos…a little digital camera happy!

So, I had mentioned that we moved the office and that it got combined with my craft area….so here’s before:This is the desk where I worked at the computer…its in the dining room right by the kitchen…great for watching kids, not fantastic for any sort of concentration or workspace.This is

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