Author: Mary-Frances

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Claire’s cats….my new project

So, I love needle turn applique. Needing a new project (like a HOLE in the head!), I’ve actually been thinking about getting this for a long time. I didn’t actually get it at equilter, but got it at Harriet’s Treadle arts….the closest quilt shop to me.I also got a bunch

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Blogging and the people you meet

So, Sharon B got us all blogging and thinking again (thanks Sharon! – a big wave here too!)…about why we blog, who we meet and all sorts of interesting things. Why do I blog? I started blogging as an extension of my Professionals In Pajamas site to help drive traffic

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Crafster didn’t come through….can you?

Ok, so I’ve given the great audience of craftster about 2 weeks to help me on this, so now I turn to my blogreaders for help. Here’s a lamp I have in the kid’s room (sort of a nightlight): This is the inside of it…it’s supposed to have a pinwheel

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Dolls…

By the way, there are more, but I didn’t want to post all of the pictures at once! 🙂

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The New Year is here!

We had a very nice New Year around here – stayed up late playing Texas Hold-em with my inlaws, having fondue and watching the ball drop. As for stitiching, I now have 3 out of 4 sides of my fairy border done. PLUS, started a new project. I’ve been having

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The Quilt that Walked To Golden

Ok, so I tried to actually do this so it didn’t look like a shameless plug (trust me, except for the click throughs to Amazon, I don’t have a connection). I got this book for Christmas and have been “stuck into it” as my father in law would say. It’s

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Regrets and New Years Resolutions

Nope, my New Year’s resolution is NOT to go on a diet (although I’ll probably do it anyway) and it certainly isn’t Missy C’s goal (this, by the way, is what happened to the Gingerbread house!) !! My inlaws are still here from Australia, they leave on Tuesday and I

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Metallic thread, stitching (or lack therof)

So, Arlee at Albedo designs (who called me “lovely and talented” – WOW! 🙂 – yikes, hard to live up to!) is looking for thread. I mentioned my metallic thread find which looks like this: And she’s looking for the stuff posted in the pic on her blog. I actually

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Firefox, My Yahoo, RSS and more geeky blog stuff

So, I’ve been geeking out on my blog the last couple of days. I downloaded the Firefox Browser and it’s pretty cool. The neatest enhancement to old IE is the tabs…if you bookmark a lot of stuff (like blogs) you can bring them all up in tabs across the top

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