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Stitch night! How I love thee!

So, this is actually a DAY of stitching, Dianna and I went back down for our second Brazilian embroidery class – and then a piece that was a DEAD UFO and has been brought back to life (bwa ha ha). This is the piece I was working on in class,

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Beading for a cure – get a cute hippo!

OH MY! I LOVE hippos (not sure how many folks knew that). Along with an early pig fascination, hippos are my greatest love and check this lovely baby out: Qowzer! Isn’t she amazing? First, run (don’t walk) and bid on her here! If I had some extra cash, I’d run

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Catching up on my blog reading

Catching up on my blog reading

Here’s a fabulous video from Bonnie Mccaffery from the Dubai UAE International Quilt Show and if you want go visit the quilt site!  Ladies I’m thinking we need to bring crazy quilting to this area!  Grin! Here’s a lovely spring video from Penny Sanford: And I LOVE this tutorial on

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I have moved!

I am now “I am not a handbag” – which is a play on the Mary-Frances Handbags which – much to my irritation google under my name as well as I do! 🙂 At any rate, this was really inspired by Bloggers lack of support of ftp blogs (which means

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Woo hoo! The finishing streak continues!

Woo hoo! The finishing streak continues!

I am SO happy! It’s done. It also widened my “skill set” (and doesn’t look like I totally didn’t know what I was doing) – I machine embroidered the blue piece on the back and did binding around it. Nope, I hadn’t done any of that!

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Progress, but nothing to photograph

So, I’ve washed out my Brazilian embroidery pieces and now have to quilt the inside of the pockets (wish me luck on that one). Then, I’m in the home stretch on my crewel piece – and I haven’t picked up my February spirit doll at all. So, then work, work,

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Sharing every little minute detail of my life

So, one of my favorite area “Mom bloggers” made me stop and think today. Is it bad to share every detail of your life on the internet? Is there a point to it? Furthermore, if you “edit” like I tend to – are we just putting out an image that’s

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