Weekend wrap-up

(Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens, shot at f/3.5, 1/320, ISO200, filters applied in Photoshop CS3)
Saturday was February weigh-in day and I had the best one I’ve had in a long, long time. Down 3.6 pounds! Finally seeing some payoff for hitting the gym several days a week. But more important to me than the actual numbers [...]

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February project finished!

Shenandoah Autumn, formerly called “Shelly’s Swirling Leaves” is finally completed. 
One thing I’m not (apparently) is a quilt stylist. I didn’t want to take my “ta-da” photo out on the garden bench because at this time of year it’s not very pretty out there. So I tried styling the quilt over a chair in the family [...]

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My attempts at self-portrait photography

I’m a big fan of Flickr and the pools of 365 Self Portraits. Other people’s pictures mind you. I will never commit to taking a photo a day of anything, let alone self-portraits. I just don’t like looking at myself all that much.
But as I was looking through Saralonde’s photostream of self-portraits, I decided it’s [...]

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Uh-oh, look what we got

My husband is not an impulse buyer. He has the most self-control with cash (his) of anyone I know. It just doesn’t burn a hole in his pocket like it does mine.
So imagine my surprise when he came home from work the other night with a big box from Amazon. He hadn’t told me he’d [...]

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Weekend retreat

Erin and I got pedicures Friday afternoon and then headed up to Fredericksburg (VA) for my church’s annual Women’s Retreat. What a great time! This was my 4th retreat, I think, Erin’s first. There were about 50 women this year, the largest crowd of any I’ve been to. So many, in fact, that they had [...]

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Happy Birthday, Sissy!

Lordy, lordy, look who’s

Yes, I’m a good bit older than my sister, these are some photos I scrounged up out of the old photo albums. The first one is from my 21st birthday, the second was from 1975 when we were bridesmaids in my best friend’s wedding. (That photo had so much color shift I [...]

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Irons

Like JudyL, my trusty Rowenta professional iron has started leaking.
Unlike Judy though, I haven’t had as many iron woes as she has. I’ve had the Rowenta for close to 10 years I think, so I guess it’s due. My mother gave me her freebie Oreck cordless which I am less than enthused by, so [...]

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UFO progress

Using Sharon Schamber’s method of joining strips for binding, I quickly made the bindings for both the maple leaf quilt (which is going to get a name change before it’s done, by the way) and “What Was I Thinking?”.
My previous method, admittedly not at all efficient, was to lap the two ends at right angles, [...]

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Groundhog Day and a birthday

Groundhog Day has special meaning for us. In 1996, it was the day the kids and I (and Lizzie the cat) landed in Richmond to begin our new lives here.
6 years later, this little guy was born:

Joey was 11 weeks old when we went down to Charlotte to pick him up from the breeder. He [...]

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