Letter to my daughter

October 9, 2009

I’m sorry I disappointed you today.  It breaks my heart. 
I’m very proud that you want to do things that help other people in different parts of the world, but right now, I don’t have the heart to tell you, yes, you can go.
You see, what you said scares me…my instinct, which I acted upon [...]

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Keith Olbermann nails it

October 9, 2009

No matter where you are on the idea of health reform, you should watch this.  It’s Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Health reform.  He devoted a whole hour to this issue and it is compelling.  He is dealing with our health and insurance system for his dad (as I have for my father and grandmother [...]

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Signs?

October 9, 2009

I was reading blogs, as usual, and on Red Geranium blog there was a picture of these signs

Now, my question is, how are people making these signs?  Obviously, they are painted, but are they using stencils?  And, where are they getting these stencils? Are they cutting their own stencils and with what machine.
I have a [...]

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Upcoming events

October 6, 2009

We have some fun events coming up – my daughter’s first Homecoming dance this weekend and then we are going to go with my sister to:

Hallowe’en in Greenfield Village
And, every year we go to Plymouth Orchards – I blogged about last year’s here.

 
Apples, cider and DONUTS.  Oh yeah.
 
Technorati Tags: Halloween,Greenfield Village,Homecoming,Plymouth Orchards,cider mill

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Beautiful photographs and editing…

October 3, 2009

I have been lusting over the Nikon D90 for awhile now and have started to put $$$ away for it.  It will take time to gather the rubles but it’s good to have a goal, right?
 
Sooo, while I squirrel away the pennies, I surf and look at photo sites and Photoshop tutorials and all the [...]

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I don’t like…

October 1, 2009

Orange and turquoise together.
‘nuff said.

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Hand carved gourds

September 30, 2009

I have a fascination with hand carved gourds.
I was cruising through Flickr and saw Bob Baity Studio’s hand carved gourds and fell in love.
He does other things, too, like scrimshaw – which is a WHOLE ‘nuther fascination.  We will go there on another day.
But look at his gourds…

I would LOVE to have the [...]

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Home decorating blogs?

September 29, 2009

I was reading through my list of blogs and you know how you click here and there and end up somewhere in blogworld, right?  And, you wonder how you got there?  Well, I clicked on to this blog – Things That Inspire . 
It’s a beautiful blog with beautiful pictures – many from magazines.  I [...]

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Sewing Expo

September 27, 2009

We went to the Sewing Expo yesterday.  It looked as if many vendors who used to go in the past were not there.  Must be a sign of the times.  Many of the embroidery people were there, but not so many quilting vendors.  Since I’m more into quilting these days, I was a tad disappointed.  [...]

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Lemonade

September 26, 2009

 
Something in this video is very compelling to me.  I am in the business that all these people have left – most not by their own choice.  Over 70,000 advertising professionals have been let go because of the recession.
I would like to see this movie when it comes out.
Technorati Tags: Lemonade,advertising

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