Author: Mary-Frances

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Trade shows without leaving your home!

I thought this was a pretty cool idea…The Needlework Show is a vendor tradeshow you can do online! Cool idea, eh? Especially for those of you who are out in the “wilds”….or just don’t want to drive! 🙂

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Princess Party Pictures!!

Well, I finally got the pictures of “princess Missy C” and her birthday friends up! So, I’m her mother and completely biased, but I really do think she’s cute! The girls were adorable and the party was a total success! So, today my inlaws have arrived from Australia and my

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Crazy Quilts, DMOZ and other Sunday musings

I’m trying to clean up a lot of loose ends today and one of them is to let people know that I am the new DMOZ editor (open directory project) for the Crazy Quilt catagory. I’m looking for lots of cool new submissions, so please “add a URL” if you

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UGH! Too much to do….too little time

I’m still digging out from my Crazy quilting group meeting on Saturday and “Princess Missy C’s” royal 4th birthday on Sunday. My inlaws arrive from Australia on Saturday afternoon, so it’s a busy, busy week. However, in discussing Jennifer Chiaverini’s books at our book club a few weeks ago, we

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2nd Rocky Mountain Crazy Quilters meeting!!

So, today was the 2nd EVER meeting of the Rocky Mountain Crazy quilters group….it’s SO fun to share this “addiction” with others! I really enjoy their varied backgrounds and interests and the stuff….WOW, I am in Awe!! I can’t wait to have a show and to show some of these

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So, last night I gave my Mom the project I was working on for FOREVER….my grandmother’s needlepoint project that she did the design on, but had never finished the background on. I finished it (heaps of BORING needlepoint) and made it into a pillow. Here’s a side view: I was

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Jennifer Chiaverini has a blog

If you aren’t familiar with her, Jennifer Chiaverini writes the The Elm Creek Quilts Novels . These are great stories, and if you love quilting they are a lot of fun (even if you just like good friendship stories). She weaves in information about quilting in a lot of different

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Cat Blogging

Well, never one to miss a beat, my brother who is a professor in Maine sent me this article from the New York Times about Friday Cat blogging. My brother has a dry sense of humor and this sort of thing (being a frustrated cat lover himself – his wife

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