Author: strejde
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
This is the valentine I made for my wonderful husband. Our last stitchy gathering was focused around quilling, and though I started the evening embroidering my tablecloth (have I showed that to you yet? I’ll have to post that soon), it wasn’t long before I was up to my elbows in paper, quilling like a…
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All in a day’s work
Today I met Shay, this gorgeous little 7-week old Jack Russell Terrier. She’s incredibly small, and incredibly cute! She’s all wriggly and curious, and so soft you just want to hold her next to your cheek and feel her warmth. I was sad to see this little guest go. One of the perks of my…
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I made a skirt!
Yesterday my creative juices started flowing in the late afternoon. I had bought lots of fun fabric recently, but being the saver that I am, I was too scared to cut into it. (I was afraid I’d just waste it or mess it up.) In the past few days, I’ve been wanting to take more…
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Random Nonsense
I’m smack-dab in the middle of a cereal phase. Don’t feel like making lunch? Cereal. Afternoon snack? Cereal. Hungry late at night? Cereal. And at the moment, it’s all about Frosted Shredded Wheat. Kellogg’s brand, please. My dad used to eat these all the time when I was little, and he called them “pillows.” As…
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More about me
No recent craftiness, no new recipes…just me and my cat and a meme of fours. Four jobs I’ve had -Selling suits at an outlet mall (I was really bad at this) -Putting bar codes on library books (I loved this) -Teaching a college organic chemistry lab (I can’t remember any of this) -Counseling patients about…