Category Archives: Making Things

Let me tell you a yarn~:>

Posted on June 5, 2010 by K

Ha.  Did you see that?  I came up with a mouse!!!  ~:> Murphy comes home in two weeks and three days.  I just had a sort of vision of me, two years ago, reading these words as I write them … Continue reading →

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–=May 3 Week: pt. 1=–

Posted on May 12, 2010 by K

Monday. I got up—way early for me—packed up and drove to the city with a carful of lights and technology. This is the only professional gig I ever do, the SLC Home Machine Quilting show.  I spend weeks fretting about … Continue reading →

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~Palettes~

Posted on April 6, 2010 by K

(apologies for my spelling.  Hopeless.) Today, after hours of wrestling with the taxes (both personal and corporate), we found an error IN OUR FAVOR.  Can you believe it?  When does that ever happen? And today, while I was running to … Continue reading →

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Drat drat drat

Posted on April 5, 2010 by K

Bad enough I’m doing taxes.  Bad enough it’s going to snow again tonight and something out on the front deck is groaning and bumping forlornly in the wind.  Probably the roof, falling off.  But here I came into the living … Continue reading →

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=:Happy Gifts:=

Posted on March 5, 2010 by K

My first gift: A few things from the ’80s First, these two gorgeous people.  I found them in the photo album I’ve been scanning the last month.  He’s a drummer.  She’s an angel. They’re older now, and have much better … Continue reading →

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For Colin ~

Posted on January 27, 2010 by K

———=0=——— For my sweet young man, I worked up the courage to try a bunny. A bunny to remember her by. It’s very hard to lose an animal you love. This bunny was designed by Lauri Sharp of Wool Pets. … Continue reading →

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Viva la

Posted on January 22, 2010 by K

And here’s another odd thing.  We watched the Polar Express this Christmas, a film I find both off-putting and oddly likeable.  The animation puzzles me—and my response to it is pretty well summed up by what I just said about … Continue reading →

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Building the stable

Posted on January 19, 2010 by K

We don’t sleep. G is camping out on the floor of the living room because Skye is now limited to living in the front hall, the only room with a dependably impermeable floor, until we can get a handle on … Continue reading →

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Phooey

Posted on December 8, 2009 by K

Don’t forget to enter for the lovely rainbow Christmas window princess kiss star giveaway at the bottom of this link!!! Not so bouncy today.  Last night, I spent hours in a sort of bumbling nightmare: turns out when you upgrade … Continue reading →

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Me: makey-makey

Posted on November 8, 2009 by K

I am no artist.  I am a slap-dash scrap quilter.  My craft is only good enough to make reasonably sure that what I produce holds together, at least till somebody tries to actually use it.  Maybe. This is actually my … Continue reading →

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