Just Motoring Along
Hi everyone! I had lots of rest this past weekend. Guess I needed it. Today I’m back and eager to get back at things. I finished sewing on hanging sleeves and Hubby hung the Old Tyme Scrappy quilt on the wall. I hemmed my jeans. I’m done the face mask...
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Weekly Review
Lots happened this week. We finally received our upright freezer - only four months after ordering it. I now have a small fridge freezer, a small chest freezer, and a medium size upright freezer. That has got to be enough for two people! I started filling and...
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Running Behind
I’m running a bit behind the last few days. Company on the weekend was great fun! But Monday was time to prepare packages for shipping and prepare for a visit and visit a bank official. Between them and resting up from the weekend my day was shot. A heads up. I...
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A Busy Weekend
Hi everyone. I’m posting a bit late. We have company from inside the Atlantic Bubble this weekend. Plus one of our daughters and her husband came over Thursday evening for supper and a rousing game of “Terraforming Mars”. We’re still learning, but it’s still fun! Last...
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A Week of Remembrance
An update on company first. Our friend from outside the Atlantic Bubble decided to postpone her trip till Covid-19 dies down. Our house is not a good place for quarantine. It's too small and the upstairs is open to the downstairs with no door between. In sewing news...
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“The Best Laid Plans…
Of mice and men often go awry.” (Robert Burns, adapted from “To A Mouse”) . You know I planned all that sewing and rug hooking this week. Well, we had a wee surprise. A good friend out west lost her job and is struggling emotionally right now. She booked a one way...
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Monday Musings
This weekend I worked on my hooked mat from Beth Miller‘s class last week. Here’s how far I’ve come to date. I changed the way the words sit on the pattern to make them more readable Friday we had our new TV installed. We’ve been without a TV for over a year now. I...
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Weekly Review – In The Studio Workshop Week
Hi everyone! It’s been an exciting week full of learning, struggle, and fun. I took three very different classes during the In The Studio Workshop Week, and was impressed with all of them. I took Karen Miller’s Travel Design course and came away with more ideas for...
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It Starts Today!
Are you ready? Or more accurately, am I ready? Today marks the first class in the In My Studio Workshop Week for me. I’m excited to be in Karen Miller’s Travel class. I have several sketches from my South Korea trip to work with, and several photos otherwise. I’m...
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Studio Makeover
Hi everyone! I thought I'd do an update on the studio makeover. The main part of my studio is ready. However we are storing stuff in it until the basement guest room cum family room cum classroom is completed. The paint is drying as I type! I've been working in my...
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Planning…
In Friday's blog post I shared photos of where I'm going on various projects. Today I'm showing you how far I've come on the South Korean roof tile end caps wall hanging. This week I'll be doing some dyeing to have enough fibre to finish the border....
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Weekly Review
Happy Friday everyone! This week was short, but productive. I’ve been busy reading “Getting Things Done” by David Allen. I wrote down everything I had in my mind that needed doing, then created a project list from the things I needed to focus on, and then a next...
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