Stacked Coins Finale

Last fall it started as this:

And it evolved into this over the winter:

To become this:

Now it’s on my bed, complete with fur.

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RAK Pyrex

Last week I wrote about my pyrex nostalgia.  I can tell you that the sunny yellow bowl has been used multiple times in it short sojourn in my home.  Over the weekend more bowls were nested into the cabinet with it.  Kerry gifted me a lovely set of three nesting bowls–her random act of kindness [...]

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Arbor Day Weekend

We celebrated Arbor Day the weekend. Starting Friday we finally picked up L4’s birthday tree. L3 received an apple tree for his 4th birthday, so we promised L4 a fruit tree for her 4th birthday as well. It had to wait for the weather to be a bit warmer here. On [...]

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Poetry in Flowers

Slowly they emerge
Bringing color promises
Warm days are to come

These photos inspired me to haiku this morning. We have a lovely children’s book called Haiku Hike that was written by 4th graders after they learned about haiku poetry.  Spring bulbs are just like poetry, lovely and elusive, bringing sweet joy in their wake.  We’ve been [...]

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Making It Our Everyday

How many of you out there are excited about all of the “green” and “eco-friendly” we see mainstreamed today?  Anybody have any negative feelings about it? Sometimes I do. . .

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Pyrex Nostalgia

Are there any kitchen implements that take you back to your childhood?   For me , it was this lovely Cinderella-style pyrex bowl, bright red (like the bottom one here and I think she actually had the rest of that set, too), that my mother used for salads of all sorts when I was growing up.  [...]

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My Bliss: Freecycle!

I heard about Freecycle on the Greencraft board on Ravelry awhile ago.  Have you all heard of it?  Any stories to share about Freecycle?  I signed up, was amazed at all the offers and wanted posts, and even gave something to a wanted post over the winter.  Today I picked these up from an offer [...]

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I’m a Copy Cat

Yesterday while trying to get back into the swing of things after a long weekend I broke out some yarn, needles, and my laptop so that I could be a copy cat.

We spent the weekend in Ohio with my cousin and while out walking Sunday morning she was wearing this. Maybe it was her long [...]

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My Bliss: Sunshine After Gray

Like much of the country, spring’s promise seemed to be snatched away in upstate NY this week as we experienced frigid temperatures and snow.  I wasn’t too forlorn over it all(or so I thought!) because the forecase claimed it would be short term.  Yesterday afternoon I had a complete meltdown on all of my poor [...]

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Humble Pie Sewing: The Journey of the “Big Girl Quilt”

My mother before me was a crafter, too.  When I was little she had a cake-decorating business–I had some cool birthday cakes as a little kid, and so did my brother.  When I hit my teen years she found quilting and enjoyed it until her death.  I have things that were my mother’s, but one [...]

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