I consider my stash of designs collection in the same loving manner as a coin, stamp or even vintage
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While searching the Internet for interesting (?) subjects for my blog, I came upon one that seemed v
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I just made up that word but if you found it elsewhere, well, I still made it up for embroidery.As a
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If you are a newbie at embroidery, you may be thinking about
the up-coming holidays and giving gifts
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Are the stores yelling at you to buy new decorations for the holidays? You have plenty and are proba
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If you frequent the Forums here at AnnTheGran or any other site, you will often see users asking whi
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January 28, 2011
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You know that WWW stands for World Wide Web. Typing in WWW tells your browser that you are connecting to a Web server.
However, as the Internet and related-technology evolved, prefixes became mostly unnecessary. But we are creatures of habit and many Websites use both WWW and non-WWW addresse...
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October 22, 2010
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Most Help Desk people will remind you to do certain steps, depending on your computer, to help speed up your PC. Vista does the Defrag and Check Disk in the background, so you can do those if you like, but it is not likely to make any difference in start-up speed.
It is a fact that getting ri...
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October 8, 2010
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If you have not yet tried Skype, you are missing one of the finest features the Internet has to offer.
Most people know that you can call users worldwide if they have the correct equipment for free. But did you know that:
You can send files
Send Instant Messages (IM)
Create a conference...
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September 24, 2010
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We are all trying to be more ‘green' these days, but some things may remain in your home that you are uncertain about. Green means more environmentally safe, but I use some items that I really cannot do without. I want to know exactly what is in those products. It m...
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July 16, 2010
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This is absolutely my favorite computer clock and it includes a calendar!!! I am not happy with a calendar that is on my desktop because it seems like it is always in the way. In the Taskbar (lower right hand corner of most screens) is perfect because it shows me the day of the week, dat...
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If you open any decorating magazine, regardless of age, you are going to find some awesome ideas for
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When I first looked at Ken Parson’s Compositions, I was confused by it, not because it was difficult
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