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Category Archives: Making Things
:: All Hallow’s Eve ::
I’m in the way of writing about Halloween today. I know I’ve written about it a little before, but today is such a gloriously gloomy sort of day, I’m just feelin’ it. I love holidays. I love the ones that … Continue reading
Posted in A little history, Epiphanies and Meditations, Explanations, Making Things, Memories and Ruminations, Pics of Made Things, Seasons, The kids
Tagged Autumn, bats, cats, Halloween, kids, light, pumpkins, quilts, skeletons
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~o:> Winding down
There are just times when (you: finally sitting on the couch after many days, house now quiet) your eyelids just keep drifting down, all by themselves. And there are also times you jump up to dance around the house, rejoicing … Continue reading
Posted in friends, Fun Stuff, Horses, Images of our herd in specific, Knit Stuff, Making Things, Pics of Made Things, Seasons, Visits
Tagged Autumn, bats, Emma, Horses, knitting, Lindy, Visits
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~o:> Ah, to be clever and crafty!
I guess it’s because of the photobooks that my days disappear so quickly. My Cammon dropped by the other morning to borrow G’s iPod. I noticed the green truck at our curb, sandwiched into a line of string players’ vehicles … Continue reading
~o:> Slight Distractions
Notes for anyone coming from Creative Friday – this is mostly about photographs and what you can do with them. Feel free to skip through the pictures if you like. I was visiting my daughter in her new New Mexico … Continue reading
Posted in Fun Stuff, Gin, Journeys, Making Things, The g-kids, The kids, Visits
Tagged compositing, image manipulation, light, Murphy, Santa Fe, sky
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~o:> what I really do with my time
(Comments finally answered!) Years ago, I went to see Ginger in her ancient gray stone house on Center Street. Lovely old place. (I’d lived in the upstairs apartment during grad school, years before it was hers.) The best part of being … Continue reading
Posted in A little history, Family, Making Things
Tagged Blurb, Books, family history, Photographs
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~o:> A Tale of Two Tails
Departing from long tradition, I have finished a horse. Not just in the fact that I have given him hair, but I have also finished his hooves. Or what would have been his hooves if he had any. I have … Continue reading
Posted in friends, Knit Stuff, Making Things, Pics of Made Things, Rachel
Tagged dachshund, knit horse, knitting, Linda, Rachel, South Africa
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~o:> A Hopeful Dog
First of all, may I tell you that I rode two horses today? Chaz’ buddy, Chels, visiting from Out East didn’t want to pass up the opportunity to ride, so ride we did, all the afternoon away. Chels and Chaz … Continue reading
Posted in friends, Fun Stuff, Horses, Knit Stuff, Making Things, Pics of Made Things, The kids
Tagged Chaz, Chels, Dog, Horses, knitting, storms
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~o:> Form. No function.
One skinny mouse. One fat mouse. To be succinct: With this as my template: I made this guy—missing by a mile: But he kinda wanted to look this way. Not my fault. Flaws in design and shaping – my fault. … Continue reading
Posted in Fun Stuff, Knit Stuff, Making Things, Pics of Made Things
Tagged clay, horse, knit, pig
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~o:> Day Trippin’: pt.2
The city, as it marches into the hills. Note the two completely different greens up there on the mountain: you can really see where the aspens end and the pine forest begins. Here we are in the city. We really … Continue reading
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Journeys, Making Things, Rachel, The outside world
Tagged fun, money, Park City, Rachel, shops, silver
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And after that, a tail~:>
And a BIRD. Or a FISH!—> <“K It looked better in the headline, though, darn it – I still think it looks like a pert little bird. Here is the progress on the horse pattern I’m working on. I started … Continue reading