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Gifts

Posted in Friends, Gifts, Thank You, tagged , , , on Thursday, January 28, 2010 | 4 Comments »

I had a birthday in November and wanted to show you a couple of very special gifts I received from my good friend, Maggy, who lives 4,000 miles away from me.    She spent several months living in Morocco with her husband on an extended holiday.  They sent me this beautiful little treasure…lovely, pale lilac, Moroccan slippers.   [...]

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Pear Tree

Posted in Cross-Stitch, LHN Ornaments, Needlebook, Needlework, Ornaments, tagged , , , , on Monday, January 25, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Don’t know why I undertook this series of ornaments. I am working on the two year’s too late wedding quilt now as well. But…with the bitter cold winter wind blowing outside….it’s nice to be warm and cozy in the house with my needlework in the evening after working at the office all day.
Here is the [...]

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Fa La La

Posted in Ornaments, tagged , on Sunday, January 17, 2010 | 10 Comments »

My first small project finished for 2010.

This is the December ornament from the LHN series. The project called for 28 ct. cappucino linen. It seemed too large for an ornament, so I did it on 32 count linen which I hand dyed to look like cappucino. Unfortunately I still feel that it is too [...]

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A Gift for the Girls

Posted in American Girl, Doll Beds, tagged , on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 | 8 Comments »

Our granddaughters are 9 and 7 and love American Girl Dolls. So for Christmas Grandpa decided to make them the triple bunk beds they saw in the catalogue. Of course grandma had to make the mattresses, sheets, pillows, bedding, etc.
We also made little name tags for each bed that have extra slates to rewrite.

There [...]

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It’s a New Year?

Posted in Uncategorized on Saturday, January 9, 2010 | 6 Comments »

What happened to the old one?   It seems as though I just told everyone I was going to Colorado to see my son through serious back surgery and that was already a year ago.  Then there was the time consuming ill health of myself and my husband…we are doing fine now….but where oh where did our days go?   [...]

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