AND THEN...
My baby dear turned eight years old today. Seems like just yesterday he was but a wee little two-pound bundle of love peeing in his playpen. Now he's a wee little nine-pound bundle of love peeing on...
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OH, OKLAHOMA
We're adding our thoughts and prayers to those of the rest of the world for you, Oklahoma (and elsewhere if you've been hit by Mother Nature). I'm so sorry for it all...the loss of life, of home, of...
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HMMMMMMM......
I'm having a love/hate relationship with my stitching efforts on the Rishfeld canvas. There are moments when I look at the yellow flowers and think "Cool. A little bit of dimension. With a lovely...
View ArticleA WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON MEMO FROM MASTER STEWEY ANGUS WILLOWSWAMP, HIS VERY...
My dear and special friends both far and near....It seems that several weeks have passed since last we spoke, so I thought I would take a moment to put pen to paper (or paws to keyboard as the case may...
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HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PLAN (WELL, MAYBE KINDA SORTA)
So there I was, minding my own business, when it kinda hit me smack dab between the eyeballs. Instead of agonizing about how in the holy heck I'm going to stitch the leaves on this canvas, I decided...
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YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME
I was doing just fine. Really. I was. I managed to actually get out of the bed, dry my eyes, blow my nose, and sit up in the buggy like a real live person. "What ever happened to keeping your crazy...
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STITCHING AND FEASTING AND GROUNDHOGS, OH MY!
We had such a lovely time of it on Saturday stitching with Miss Myrtis and Miss Charlene. I sometimes forget how perfect an afternoon can be when it's spent in the company of like-minded friends who...
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IT'S MC STEAMY!
Nope, not THAT McSteamy...just your good old average mid-July weather related steamy. You know what I'm talking about....temps in the 80's and humidities the same.In short, total hell for a portly...
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THREE POINT....OH
My mom can't come to the blog right now. She's too busy sitting in her Happy Chair thinking I'm a complete genius. (For the record, I AM a complete genius....it's just taken her a little longer than...
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THE HAPPY CHAIR IS GETTING A BATH
My mom can't come to the blog right now. She presently sweating and grunting and cursing up a blue streak as she desperately tries to shampoo the Happy Chair. From what I gather, all of this recent...
View ArticleWELL BLAH-DEE-DA, BLAH-DEE-DA
So there I was...minding my very own business, when I turned to Stewey and said:"Stewey, Mommie is positively va-clempt with a serious case of on-wee. What could possibly be wrong with me that I'm not...
View ArticleCLEAN UP ON AISLE TWELVE....
Once again, I was minding my very own business when.....KA-BLAM ! ! !My water heater blew up.And then when I went into the kitchen to make myself some comfort toast, my toaster oven went...KA-PLEWEY!I...
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SO MUCH FOR NO LABOR DAY...
On Friday afternoon, I wrote a list of about 30 things I wanted to accomplish. "It's a nice long weekend"' I said to no one in particular. "I think I'll take advantage of it and get some stuff...
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JUST THE FACTS, MA'AM
Laura J. PerinHarvest Moon HouseLook! A flagstone walkway! Some lovely bushes! Now you can make your way to the front door so that Stewey and I can welcome you in for a cup of tea and some...
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AAAAHHHHHH TUM
I've got an eighteen pound lasagne in the oven bubbling away, the windows and doors are thrown open to the cool and lovely breeze, Stewey is sacked out in the patch of sunshine coming in the back...
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THAT'S AAAA MORE RAY!
One of my very favorite movies of all time is "Moonstruck". So last night, as I settled my big fat heiney into the Happy Chair apres' dinner (leftover lasagna and a salad, thankyouverymuch), I...
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HARVEST MOON HOUSE FEE NEE
Ms. Laura J. Perin, Her Very Fabulous SelfHarvest Moon House18ct. mono canvas in ecruFibers as called for on chartOh, what a complete and total joy this was to stitch! I learned so much and felt like...
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NOW THEY'RE JUST SCREWING WITH ME
I would have posted this last night when the game was on, but I was literally struck senseless by the gold lame'. Federal law now prohibits me from telling you what I REALLY think about this get-up,...
View ArticleAPPLE.....TREE. OH, HOW I WISH IT WERE TRUE
Today would have been my mom's 80th birthday. This fact is, in its very self, hard to fathom, since she died when she was 54 years old. To imagine her at 80 is hard, especially when you consider the...
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