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Hug Bugs!

Aren’t they cute? This summer we’ve started the family tradition of “hug bug” – which came from “slug bug” – but two children in the back seat of the car in a pacifist family hitting each other each time they see a cute car seemed wrong, so we’ve modified it.

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I get to do a crafty guest post! Yay

A few months ago, my friend Melissa Taylor invited me to do a guest artist post on her Award Winning blog “Imagination Soup”! Well, I pondered and worried and finally came up with my favorite summer activities for kids! If you pop over and read it you can even get

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3 ways to repair kids pants

I’m gaining fast knowledge of kids pants repair. My kids have a deep love (and ability) to rip holes in all their pants. On top of that, Missy C is SKINNY and so pants that are WAY too short, still fit around her waist. So, here’s 3 different repairs to

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Crafties and Freebies!

Crafties and Freebies!

Whew! It was a crazy busy week, and just when I was preparing this post, I opened my Etsy store and a busy weekend just became busier!! ha ha! On Thursday night I was totally flattered to be included in a Glade Bloggers event at the Warwick Denver! The food

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A very crafty weekend!

So, we had a fabulous weekend! Saturday we had some wonderful friends over for dinner and recieved a fabulous gift (which is over on the mid-century blog if you want to drool and be jealous we have such cool friends). Yesterday I had many issues with transfering a new embroidery

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Hot days and snowy days

Life has been busy and unpredictable here, just like the Colorado weather (weekend before last it was snowing, then last weekend 80 degrees, and today snowing again). But I thought I’d quickly share what we’ve been up to. Rex likes to make candles and this past weekend he got out

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PROGRESS! yay!

Yay! It’s together and lines up! (this is NOT a small acheivement for me!). However, the quilt store wasn’t open today (when will small quilt shops ever learn we QUILT on the weekend! Ugh!).Anyway, closer and closer! YAY!Thanks a ton to Rhonda who helped me figure out how to clean

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Way behind and in a funny writing mood.

Last week was odd – some bad, some good, but mostly just odd. We replaced a computer, which provided a weird cascading force throughout the house and business. Then we started a new – very part time – employee, which was a definite change. We spent the day trying to

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Crafting for human rights

My goal today is to clean the house and then create. We’ll see – I’ve had these hopes before. I was “inspired” (if that’s the word) by a link to this post on Pat Winter’s blog. As you may know (read old posts?), we just got back from El Paso

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Chemo Care Cap – how cool!

Ok, I know there are a lot of knitters out there and I thought this was an exceptional project for all of you knitters to stick in between projects! Check out: Bunnie’s Knitting House: Chemo Care Cap (this original link is gone, but here’s a new one: http://www.benfranklincraftshelena.com/yarn/chemo-care-cap/) – maybe

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