Today I feel like an idiot.

 That’s pretty much it. Here’s the back-story: A few years ago, five maybe, my sister Deb gave me this incredible vintage black silk ‘party’ dress. She got it from a friend, and I don’t know where it came from before that. I totally love it.  But.  It didn’t really fit. My shoulders are straight and broad, [...]

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the direct approach

 It’s time for me to work. Not just the usual day to day work, but the sort of work that earns money. I did finish all of my CA client’s clothes and ship them off last week ( hooray!).  Then I made a several yoga mat bags ( someone else in my class asked me [...]

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scrambled

 One of the things that I love about sewing, or creating anything in general, is that it puts my brain into motion. The more you do, the more ideas that come. I’ve been working on a list of things to put into my etsy shop, and the list keeps growing. No sooner do I start [...]

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week one

 We’ve had a pretty good first week with Richard. Today is the first day of school, and the bus picked him up not quite at our door, but the end of the street. And it wasn’t raining. I’m anxious to see how it went. There’s been a lot of getting used to how things work for [...]

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crafty stuff

I used to despise the word ‘crafty’.If someone told me I was ‘so crafty’ it would feel like an insult, as it conjured up visions of senior bazaars full of crocheted acrylic baby things and the like. Thank goodness that word has been reinvented in the past few years. This year for Christmas I decided [...]

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company’s coming

Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow! I’m so excited that Lauri and Aidan are coming – what a great Christmas present. Richard will drive into Portland and pick them up in the morning. Me, I’ll be here getting the last of things ready. With Ryan here last weekend, and Gretchen and Tom on the heels of his leaving, [...]

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It’s WAR ! ! !

 We are being beaten down by…………….squirrels. Yup, those “rats with good PR” are taking their toll on the both of us. And Sunny. They are in the floor joists, between the upstairs and downstairs, alongside all of the heating ductwork.  This week, Richard has torn apart the wall in the laundry room to replace the [...]

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