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Author: Faith

Born 70+years ago, I have 3/4 of a bachelor's degree in English. I love to read and love having written (not so much the actual process of writing). I've had several jobs, but no real profession. I have LOTS of hobbies, that seem to rotate and recycle, which leads to too many UFOs! The longest running are writing, hand embroidery, machine embroidery & digitizing, quilting, fabric, paper, and mixed medial collage and gardening (but even "long running" is more dabbling than doing). I have ADD, which became very obvious to me when my husband retired and ALL my required schedules disappeared. I'm a wife (50+years), sort of step-mom to 3, mom to 1. Daddima (grandma) to 2 plus 7 on the step side, where there are also 4(?) great grands. (I really know only the youngest step and spouse and their 2 now adult children.) I rarely blog about family, preferring to write about the currently cycling hobby and random thoughts that pop up (blather?).
Charms, Beads and Buttons

Charms, Beads and Buttons

My sister, Debie, makes jewelry and, once the pandemic clears sufficiently, will be offering bead therapy classes. Bead therapy came about because one of her friends so enjoyed playing with the beads as she chose the beads and helped my sister design the jewelry she was making for her. I don’t need bead therapy classes though, because Debie shares everything with me. She always gets more than she needs. Occasionally, she’ll even get some specifically to give me. She has…

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Tuesday’s Stitching …

Tuesday’s Stitching …

And unstitching. The white lace just wasn’t working at the bottom of that patch. That was my unstitching. I may end up putting in on the yellow patch. After much debate about which stitch to use on the right, I decided on this week’s Beyond TAST stitch — Tulip stitch. I used a variegated teal/turquoise perle 5 for the detached chain part and a brighter turquoise crochet thread (compares with perle 8) that has a thread of tinsel wrapped around…

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Monday, Monday… Oh! It’s Tuesday

Monday, Monday… Oh! It’s Tuesday

Since last I posted I changed my background and header. My plan was to make it autumn-y, but I saw the blue cacti and fount the site where I made the fancy-font title, so I went with it. Saturday my brother came by and chose a (very) few pears. By Sunday, so many had become ripe, I started making pear sauce. These pears a perfect for that 99% of them have to have wormy bits cut out, which makes them…

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Friday, Already? Again?

Friday, Already? Again?

Today has been another day I didn’t do what I intended to do. Actually, that’s pretty normal for me. I was going to sand my benches. Instead, we picked pears. Whatever is left on the tree is for the birds… or squirrels. Or the bugs, particularly when they fall to the ground. We don’t poison our tree, so the fruit is always iffy. We eat up the best ones and dry (or maybe freeze, this year) the rest after cutting…

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Trying Something New

Trying Something New

I’m trying a desktop program to see if it will let me set up a page the way I want it set up. I’m not exactly thrilled with the WordPress limitations, especially since I don’t need them and never had them before. This is something called Open Live Writer (OLW). It’s on my computer, not online, but it’s connected to my blog and apparently I can publish directly from here. We’ll see.     It rained!! It never rains in…

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A Box!

A Box!

I did stitch it out today! Oh! I see lots of threads in the picture that I didn’t see live! Well, it’s not a perfect box, but I did learn a lot when I made it. Use another layer of stabilizer. Remember to check and make sure the proper foot is on the machine. Block the finished design Face the design before cutting it out Leave enough fabric/stabilizer to sew proper seams This was stitched with a layer of heavy…

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Stitching

Stitching

I think I fixed my upload size problem. . . . Nope. WP resizes my images! Actually it makes copies in various sizes, but won’t allow a full size image. I tried a direct link. They have not always opened because my webhost doesn’t allow direct (non html) links. Even on the same site, it doesn’t work all the time. I was working on this a few days ago and didn’t get back to it, but until I figure out…

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Christmas?

Christmas?

Well, yes. If I want to make anything, I need to get started. I saw this cute box design (Just the black and white. Color design added because, although I have the right to use this design, I don’t have to right to give it to anyone.) at DesignBundles and wondered if it would make a decent stitched box. I grayed out the side flaps because I’ll be stitching, not gluing, those edges. The flaps on the lid remain so…

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Food

Food

I cooked yesterday. I spent about three hours. The food cooked longer. Because I wanted to make a good batch of spaghetti sauce, I hunted down tomato puree. What is it about Salem that no one carries more than a very few cans of puree?! There were two cans and no marked place for them where I finally found them. I guess there are too few Italian cooks here. I finally snagged two large cans and three tiny ones. It…

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Hot! Hot! Hot!

Hot! Hot! Hot!

I know it’s hotter in other parts of the country, but it’s more like when we lived in Virginia than ever. Part of the reason we moved here was to get away from the heat and humidity. At least the humidity isn’t bad here. Why am I cooking on the hottest day so far this month? I was going to make three dishes for the freezer, but I may not. Our a/c is temperamental. I don’t want to stress it….

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