A Creative Log & Other Notes on Life
From the monthly archives:
Not that I acutally know what bad 70’s porn looks like and not that I actually bought this fabric, but I did immediately tell my friend (whose husband is a firefighter) that she needed to buy it. She’s thinking Christmas Stocking. I said that sounds great as long as the dude sporting the mustache gets […]
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This beautifully written book about “a greedy king, who with the help of a generous quiltmaker, learns to find happiness by giving his possessions away”, is a perfect way to talk to your children about giving and sacrifice on this Blog Action Day. As a family, take the time to devise a plan to help […]
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While shopping at the LA fabric Mecca for Halloween costume supplies, I couldn’t help but pick up a few small pieces of these Michael Miller fabrics: “Mending Madness” “Tidy Up” Now I just need to come up with the perfect tongue-in-cheek sewing projects. Any ideas?
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Baby Brother got a new little t-shirt thanks to Mom’s Dyeing Day and this pro-biking etsy shop.
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Someday we WILL make it up this hill.
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Here are some examples of Soft Scrub in action: The green cloth diaper and both of the blue shirts were home-dyed and then bleached. The gray shirt was a factory dyed piece I then bleached. On these two shirts, I hand painted the insides of the letters with Soft Scrub to lighten them up a […]
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This oven was original to our 1950’s house. The top oven never worked great and the bottom oven never worked at all. Even so, we grew to love that little yellow oven over the past year since we purchased our home. I worked so hard to integrate it’s random yellow color into our (also random) […]
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I don’t understand why they call it going “clipless” because it seems quite the opposite. Within the first 3 seconds of my first “clipping in” experience, I had my first “clipless” fall because I forgot my feet were attached to the pedals. Luckily, I was practicing on grass.
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I have become a huge fan of the concept of Guerilla Gardening. Still working on the courage to engage in some illicit cultivation of my own.
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While I have been trying to “green” my cleaning supplies, Soft Scrub with bleach is going to be hanging around the house still as my new favorite freezer paper “paint”. On a dyed shirt, the results are better than just clean.
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