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Stitchin and surfin!

Well it’s been a couple of crazy days here – but I’ve spent today sitting and stitching with my computer next to me…surfing the blog world. First, check out this event: Really! How can that NOT be a winner? Now I don’t exactly cross stitch, but my friend Dianna does

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Don’t tell Matey Moo – Gumby’s dead.

My son (7 years) owns the entire Gumby collection: Today Art Clokey, the creator of Gumbey, died. So, I said to my husband “should I tell Matey Moo”. “No” he said. So, why do I feel weird. It’s going to be really sad for him, but isn’t this part of

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Cool artsy video

Sincy my husband and Matey Moo are working hard today on a “movie” with toys and such, I’m interested in stop motion – so here’s a cool one I found via Yahoo this morning: http://d.yimg.com/m/up/fop/embedflv/swf/fop.swf

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Last look at Christmas

Now this picture has a story: These are our 3 cats – “Harry”, “Frasier” and “Reggie” – I came up on this “reindeer costume” (there are feet too, but imagine getting them onto a cat!) at Target while shopping for last minute stocking stuffers. The joke immediately became that there

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And the bead journal project starts!

And the bead journal project starts!

And so here’s the beginning of my Bead Journal project. The one on the left is mostly likely to become “January” but the one on the right is where I’m experimenting with adding dimension to her arms (if you remember my sketch, the doll actually has arms). January’s “theme” is

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Starting the new year a little bit early

Starting the new year a little bit early

I know it’s a couple weeks early, but today begins the beginning of the end or the beginning of a new beginning (however you want to look at it). I got my invite to the Bead Journal Project blog (yay! Can’t wait!) and so you can follow that blog if

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2010 Word of the year “Focus”

I was going to write two posts (one about last year and one about this year), but since I see this new “word of the year” thing being a regular yearly occurence I might as well just lump it together in one big thought bubble. If you don’t know about

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Happy Turkey Day everyone!

We’re having friends over, playing games and stitching. Should be a wonderfully relaxing day! I hope all of yours is wonderful too! PS – the card above came from my Mother in Law from Blue Mountain – isn’t it fabulous?

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Back to our regularly scheduled programming

Now that the “big drawing” is over – it’s time to get back to real life and crafty stuff. Well, actually all of that has been happening all along, I just haven’t had the time to write about everything that’s happening. Now, brace yourselves because there will be some “kid

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