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To Alaska and back!
For someone who rarely leaves her own backyard, cruising Alaska is really stepping out! Thom Nulty took us (and Carolyn) on a wonderful cruise from Anchorage to Vancouver in September. This post is...
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New England Trip
I know. I'm an embarrassment to bloggers everywhere. Oh well.Chuck and I drove to Vermont on October first to visit Dave and Nancy Shipps, our dear OLD friends from California/Colorado. It has been...
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My new friend NED.
Otherwise known as 'no evidence of disease'. REMISSION. Hooray for chemo!It's been an interesting journey, but I'm getting off the train. And I hope to remain off forever. I will continue on a...
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Pillowcase Dresses
No pillowcases used here. I use a width of material and follow Nancy Zieman's method, adding a 3-inch trim and some ribbon to the bottom.Close up of the 'up and down' ribbon trim:Sweet Avery looked...
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Baby Sean.
That's the name the little cousins have given to sweet Sean McMahon. What a doll he is.It is impossible to be the same kind of grandmother to Sean that I am to the little ones who live nearby. I have...
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Christmas Card 2011 - with the Kissing Bandit
THIS is the Kissing Bandit.Grant.He.loves.to.kiss.everyone.Here is how the little Bandit complicated the process of this year's Christmas card:We started with Ellery holding Baby Sean.Then we gave...
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HOUSE PARTY...Gingerbread style!
Before we get too far into 2012, I need to get these photos posted – they are now four weeks old!I have been having gingerbread house parties for several years, and I hope I have dozens more! This...
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Creampuff Swans
Christmas was more than a month ago. This was dessert.Creampuff swans. I've made these since the 70s from an old recipe book called "Cookery for Entertaining." I got it for opening up a bank account...
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Adorable Damask
If the word 'damask' conjures up images of your grandmother's wallpaper, think again. This is our little Avery wearing a pillowcase dress-type romper that I made with a beautiful Michael Miller fabric...
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It's a GIRL!
Corinne Marie Maupin arrived on March 28th. Erin and Dean once again had a baby in no time at all. They make it seem so easy. She was 8 pounds 6 ounces, nearly 21 inches long. Such a beauty!Her big...
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What the h-e-doublehockeysticks is THAT?
I saw this in my lawn one day while ouside with Lenny. I ran in the house for my camera and took a few shots. I had no idea what this cute little 'face' in the grass was. Google tells me that it is...
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Barbie Cake for Ellery
I don't know how it happened, but Ellery became a four-year-old last week. In her honor, and to help out her very busy mommy, I created this Barbie Cake. And here is the birthday girl!
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Sean turns ONE!
Cute, right?And it turns out he is another fantastic model for clothes sewn by Gee!Last night Chuck and I Skyped with Sean and watched him eat an entire Dilly Bar, which may have contributed to the...
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Baby Gate
This is my current baby gate:It's too wide, too clunky, and just plain ugly. Last week, while stalking one of my favorite sewing bloggers,Karen, from Sew Many Ways, I came across her little bit of...
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Why I Hate Camping
I hate camping because:It requires driving or, worse yet, hiking into nowhere.It often means carrying one's bed on one's back. please.It means no running water of the blessed indoor-kind, which, of...
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Nothing Could be Finer Than to Be in a Diner. . .
. . . in the morning. Or for lunch with friends! Last Friday Erika, Sean, and I traveled to Culpeper to meet the Leeds girls at the Frost Cafe. What a hoot! And what a cute little town Culpeper is...
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The McMahon Quilt
This is a quilt I made for the McMahons new housein Libertyville, IL:I love the cute neighborhood designs.Perfect for new homeowners.The fabric is Summersville by Lucie Summers for Moda.She has a great...
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How He Spent His Summer Vacation!
I bought a huge paper mache 'S' from Joann's on line (this sucker is about two feet tall) intending to make a monogram photo collage for my craft room, like this one I saw on Pinterest:As soon as I...
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This is Halloween!
What is it about Halloween that makes me ooze with creativity? I just love it! Even though we get exactly ZERO goblins who trick-or-treat, I enjoy costuming (I believe that's a word) the house. Now...
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Houston, we have a problem!
Please close this window now if you are sensitive to profanity, as I intend to use a lot of it from now on. You probably shouldn't talk to me over the phone either. After two splendid years of being...
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WANTED: Port Authority
Yippee! My dream job was posted on Career Builders!Wait. What? my mistake. I thought they were looking for an Interventional Radiologist. Damn. What a great job that would be.I have been known to...
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A Woman Walks Into A Doctor's Office.....
And it's all up hill from there.Last Wednesday was chemotherapy day. Let's all hope that subsequent treatment days are less long. Shorter. Please.I arrived at the cancer center early and registered on...
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I'm Golden! A message to my siblings.
Ok, so I'm bald.The baldness is not the point. It's what I learned about myself by going bald. Before I let you in on my little secret, I'll set the mood with some background for my readers.Our...
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I HAD A DREAM...
…that Chuck and I were in some kind of competition with other couples – like The Amazing Race. The task at hand was for Chuck to eat as much cat food as possible while I spooned it into a hopper. Yes...
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