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Month: April 2011

  • The good thing about having clients to my house is the need to keep it neat and tidy. And it also makes me want to dress it up for the seasons. This is the first thing you see when you walk in our front door. I think this summer I will actually pull this table out and refinish it. I got a quote to have it done for me. $600, no thank you very much. Also I should put back in the leaded glass doors to the built-ins (taken out almost five years ago). Then maybe…

    8 comments on A bit of spring inside
  • The last Project Modern Challenge for the Modern Quilt guild was a monochromatic challenge. I decided to give it a try because I had a sewing day coming up with the girls… back in January. And I hadn’t touched it since. So a couple of days before the deadline you can guess what I decided to do, finish it! I figured that if I didn’t finish it in time for this deadline it would sit in my pile of to be completed quilts like so many others. And I really had done the hard work of…

    5 comments on The big purple top
  • So I got a little scrapbooking done. I figured I had better scrap these pictures before Kristen moves to Canada. I would probably not be able to use them because of all the crying ๐Ÿ™ Friends moving to other time zones, boo!!! This is one of my favorite kind of layouts, very simple and sweet. The misted heart card is from a small package Sarah sent me (had to save it of course!). The two little square embellishments are some of my favorite Ki Memories icicles. Pretty old product, but I scored some recently on eBay.…

    10 comments on A little help from my friends…

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