Category Archives: Making Things

Treasure Gathering

Posted on November 6, 2009 by K

One of my more profound failures as a female concerns shopping: I don’t like it.  Put me in a mall and I mostly want to go home.  Especially if it’s pants we’re shopping for.  I tend to  buy my clothes … Continue reading →

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Craft and cleverness

Posted on July 18, 2009 by K

I love handmade stuff. Love it, love it, love it. And I love buying from the person who makes the stuff. Especially magical things like pottery and lampwork and stained glass and jewelry and onions. I wanted to show you … Continue reading →

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The 4th: part dos

Posted on July 8, 2009 by K

Parade day is always good exercise.  If you don’t get up at five to stake your claim (which we don’t), you do a whole lot of walking (which we do).  Sometimes through parts of town you’ve never seen before.  I … Continue reading →

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More scrap 2(?)

Posted on June 28, 2009 by K

I hate it when I got a lot to write about and no time or opportunity to do the mind-data dump. It makes me jumpy, keeping all these things in the air. So I think I’m going to do bullets, … Continue reading →

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More Scrap

Posted on May 29, 2009 by K

  More little scraps. To begin with: the company I keep. This is me, kind of dorky, always communicating (cry for those who live with me), a little dumpy, but well meaning and not terribly exciting.   This is my … Continue reading →

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That’s my baby –

Posted on May 29, 2009 by K

If you click here, you’ll be able to see the film M was working on before he left on his mission.  He was one of three (I think) producers.  It’s only a few minutes long.  But it so, so beautiful. … Continue reading →

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Conclavity of the Arts

Posted on May 17, 2009 by K

When I was invited to function as the Mormon Arts Foundation’s Chair of Literature some years ago, I wasn’t sure I wanted to do it.  Yeah, we make our living in the music biz, but that’s all just working class … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Three Cups of Tea

Posted on April 30, 2009 by K

I don’t read non-fiction.  Like contracts and warrantees and instruction manuals.  Like informational books.  Reading this stuff gives me anxiety.  Like the summer I read Protein Power (Eades), the 678 page GoLive manual and the Zone, all in a couple … Continue reading →

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Queen for a day

Posted on April 21, 2009 by K

 I remember, one year, being cheerful audience at our local quilt guild’s big quilt show.  They presented the Quilt Most Likely to Knock Your Eyes Out  to a wonderful piece of work: elegant, complex and demanding in design and stitchery, … Continue reading →

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The oddness of small fame

Posted on April 6, 2009 by K

           One time when we went to the library, G overheard one librarian at the circulation say to another, “Kristen Randle just entered the building.”  (blink, blink – laugh).  That was back when I’d just been … Continue reading →

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