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Monthly Archives: December 2013
Improv.
Sometimes you just *have* to have this certain thing– a specific meal, maybe, or a specific outfit, or something. And sometimes you just don’t have the ‘ingredients’. Sometimes you have to improvise. Like Monday, for example. While I was at … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, Cat sunning itself, chocolate swirl rolls, cooking, easy, Elementary, exhausted, Female Moriarty, I want to go home, I'm gonna buy Malabrigo, improvisation, Irene Adler, mini pot pies, Mmmmmalabrigo, Moriarty, pizza dough, recipe, Sherlock, snow, Star Trek Voyager, tired, Tuvok, unexpected delay, working too much, yarn
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Welcome to Wonderland.
Well, it finally happened. A ginourmous snow storm. We’d had some ‘baby storms’ already this year, but now we have real snow, and I don’t know whether to rejoice or to hide in my house and not leave until Spring. … Continue reading
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Tagged kenmore 1750, learningto sew, new to me, sears, sewing machine, thrift, thrifted, zig zag
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Cheviot (Part 2) + Icelandic Mega-Test
I realized I forgot to spin my sample of American Miniature Cheviot (a descendant of normal Cheviot). So here’s Cheviot Part 2: I got all excited while spinning this, because it was spinning so fine and even straight from the … Continue reading
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Tagged advance, apiary puffs, beekeeper's quilt, crocheting, fleecydex, game boy, icelandic, shetland, sp, spindle, spinning, starbound, thrifting, warhill, yarn
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The Avoidance of Burnout, and Why It’s Fun to WIP-Crack ;)
I have a very bad habit. You know what it is? Obsessive crafting. When I like something, I obsess, I overspend, I gather materials, and I spend every waking moment doing that craft or art form until it all crashes … Continue reading
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Tagged break from being creative, burn out, burned out, busy, crochet, fiber arts, indecisive, projects, shaun the sheep, shawn the sheep, tired, WIP, WIP cracking
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