Watch this

You may be aware that I work for an ad agency, one that produces national work, I know you’ve seen our stuff.
Here is just one example of why I am so proud of who we are, what we do (well, not me directly) and why I brag on us so much.

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Mountain getaway

John and I are on staycation this week and we started it out with a weekend trip to the mountains with our friends Larry and Laurel:

We drove to a small town on the Virginia side of the West Virginia state line. This is the main drag:

We stayed at a house owned by a family at [...]

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Happy Halloween!

Can you believe this is the first pumpkin I’ve ever carved? John always “helped” the kids (ie they got to watch him do it) and my dad probably did ours when we were young. I’m willing to bet my mother has never carved a pumpkin, unless she did it before I knew her.

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Someone else is having a giveaway

Pumpkin Patch Primitives Quilt Shoppe is giving away a fat quarter bundle of Red Rooster’s Pumpkins and Spice fabrics.
Check it out! And please, post a link on your blog to be entered.

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Mmmm, Tortellini Soup

Just a reminder about my giveaway. I’ll draw the winner next week. Details here.
I’ve had an annoying chest cold this past week and the incessant coughing is driving me crazy. I haven’t been sleeping all through the night because the cough doesn’t want me to be horizontal. This morning I woke up at 2:45 am, [...]

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This blog is one year old today!

And to celebrate, I’m having my first-ever giveaway. For the next two weeks, if you leave a comment on this page and also link to it in your blog, you’ll be entered for a random drawing to win 3 patterns by Karie Patch Designs. I’ve come to know Karen DuMont through our Electric Quilt classes [...]

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Harvest Festival

Saturday, John and I ran over to the Harvest Festival at Meadow Farm in Glen Allen. This is so close to our house and in 13 years, we’d never been there. With a festival, it seemed like a good time to check it out and take pictures! Unfortunately, the temp was in the upper 40s/lower [...]

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Diplomatically speaking

I’ve seen vehicles up in the DC area with Diplomat license plates, which makes sense because, ah, that’s where the embassies are.
But on our way home from the Folk Festival we were behind this one on Cary Street. It just struck me as funny that a diplomat would be driving a vintage VW bus.
Amy, this [...]

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Richmond Folk Festival

Yesterday John and I went to the Richmond Folk Festival at Brown’s Island. We hadn’t been before, but had heard people say in years past that we really should have gone. So this time we did. Saturday was kinda rainy and we were having a dinner party that night anyway, so we went yesterday which [...]

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Bouchon

Today I got an unexpected invitation from our ad rep at SmartMoney magazine, Dulce Chicon, to join her and some of our planning team at Bouchon in Shockoe Slip. This restaurant opened about a month ago in the space formerly occupied by Pomegranate on Cary Street.
Unless I go out on a rep lunch, I rarely [...]

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