February 12, 2010
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Our daughter's car broke down in the snow this week. Michael was not available so she called m
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January 29, 2010
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Getting the right design into your machine is a most important part of enjoying your embroidery experience. I have been using an embroidery machine for so long that lots of things have become second nature and I just do them without thinking. Like viewing designs using the Brother PED-Ba...
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January 22, 2010
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I have been dog sitting a five month old puppy for the last 2 weeks. Sage is pretty good, but she is definitely all puppy. And Big! Ok, I admit I am used to small dogs - Papillons, which are usually 7-10 pounds. So, when this pretty Brittany Spaniel jumped in my lap right b...
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January 8, 2010
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We are looking forward to another grandchild and I have vowed not to be scrambling when it arrives to be finishing things up. Only time will tell but our grandaughter and I have been working on a soft book for her new brother or sister. We will show it to you when we ...
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December 4, 2009
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By now everyone knows that at our house we have been slowly going green. It not only helps the
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November 20, 2009
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I have to tell you a story of love at first sight. I have to tell you the story of Keiko. She is one of the newest members of the family (kind of). We have two dogs at our house - a sixteen year old Pomeranian mix and an almost two year old Papillon. So do we need anothe...
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November 6, 2009
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Each time she visits my granddaughter asks if we can get the manger set out early this year. It is very old and worn but she loves to play with it, taking the figures on the trip to Bethlehem. We make a tradition of getting the house ready for the Christmas holidays the weekend after Tha...
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October 23, 2009
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This week I finished putting up my Halloween decorations. I made a few new ones this year, since my old ones were simply falling apart. Instead of the scarecrow on the front door I made a wall hanging that is interchangeable for each holiday. But that is a project I will sh...
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OK, I admit it. I despise making jack-O-lanterns. The carving is OK but in my mind cleaning out the pumpkin guts has never been fun. Yuck-O! And because it gets so cold here before Halloween these hollowed out orange decorations many times look like little old men by Trick or...
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September 25, 2009
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Being the "Meesy" to two beautiful granddaughters I am always on the lookout for cute things that I can make for them or with them. They are very girly girls and love fancy ribbons, barrettes and bows. Last weekend I went on a getaway with a friend and we browsed through shops ...
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September 11, 2009
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Halloween is closer than you think! I always get excited now that I have two granddaughters to watch. It makes the holiday so much more fun. I love listening to the older one tell me what she wants to be and deciding for her sister. Last year they were invited to a party. We had a great time c...
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August 28, 2009
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This was not the original project that I planned for this week but was inspired out of necessity. I am forever trying to do more than one thing at a time and this morning was no exception. I was going along answering emails, downloading some items that I needed and eating break...
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Well, it's August and the "Dog Days of Summer" have finally arrived here. That means it is hot, hot, hot and when the temps get up around 100 degrees it is time to let the garden go and sew. I am done putting up corn, beans, berries and peaches. I do not wish to see a...
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July 31, 2009
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I would have to call myself a fabric junkie. I love solid colored fabric and prints and buy it even when I have no earthly idea of what I will do with it. I have so much fabric that my daughters always come by and "shop" in my sewing room before making a trip to the fabric store. And...
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June 12, 2009
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Did you know that Flag Day is this Sunday? It is nice to take a moment and remember how gratef
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May 1, 2009
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“Meesy, why don’t Grandma and Gigi have pictures of us at their houses like you do?” my eldest grand
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April 10, 2009
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The sun shone on us all in Orlando and we had a great time at the second annual Annthegran Community Circle gathering. We met up with old friends and made some new ones too. For two days we learned lots, laughed lots and ate lots.
Mary Mulari and Rita Farro kept everyone in stitches as ...
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September 5, 2008
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For some time at our house we have been somewhat involved in recycling stuff. A while back I a
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July 25, 2008
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Can you believe that July is almost over? We have the strangest weather here this year. One day it’s about 100 degrees and the next it barely gets into the 70s. The month has breezed by filled with gardening (my tomato plants are all dying and I don’t know why), g...
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July 10, 2008
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Now, what is all this about green paper? This was my initial thought when I first heard the term KIWI paper. Oh, its paper and you can supposedly embroider on it. We've all done that before but it is so hard to find really fun designs that don’t ruin the pa...
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June 19, 2008
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Hello, all ME blog readers. I got to know many of you at this year’s Community Circle in Orlando. If you were there and don't remember me, there's a picture of me on our About Us page. I also post from time to time in the forums under my username db1921 and I created the cof...
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