the studio

Here it is!  I have some tweaking to do – painting the rocking chairs and sewing up some seat cushions for them, maybe a rug for the winter months, finishing the chalkboard paint on the stairs, repainting the old dressers that I’ll be using for storage,  finding a cheap bookcase for all of my books [...]

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Swimming

I told you a few weeks ago that I had signed up for Marisa’s e-class.  I am an official fishie swimming in the Fish Bowl.  My first impressions of this process is that it is a wonderfully supportive place to explore your passions.  That you will not be considered a poser, a weirdo, selfish, artsy fartsy, a [...]

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made. make.

Polaroid Birthday card made for me by Super Jen.  She takes some pretty incredible Polaroid shots.  I love the way her shadow is in there with those rockin’ chairs.  Not rocking chairs people – Rockin’ Chairs!  You know -  those Sick chairs!  Not sick, like sick throwing up, but Sick!!  Or as Marshall and his friends [...]

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Hark, two posts in one day…

Considering these may be the only two post I do this month, I think you will forgive me.  If you saw the one picture of me that Brian took while we were camping and put it next to this picture you wouldn’t think they were the same person.  In the other one I’m wearing a [...]

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papercut

When the studio is completed I hope to spend lots of time making papercuts.  Jan calls her studio Snippyville – I love it!   Previously I have used patterns, but I have wanted to branch out more into my own designs and so far this is the process I’ve come up with.  I’ve been wanting them [...]

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how to eat an elephant

I have been away from the computer except for dribs and drabs here and there because I’m in the process of eating an elephant.  If you are often overwhelmed, as I am, by all the projects that go along with owning a home you know of what I speak.  Usually I see them all before [...]

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