My kids came home from school and smelled the air: "WHAT'S THAT?!"
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Burda 9674 - my first successful Burda. I'm not sure what was wrong with me (or the pattern company) 6 years ago, but now these patterns aren't frustrating. Or maybe I'd just chosen a pattern that was 'way beyond my sewing ability back then. :-D


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I've been LJ-delinquent for a few months. I've since quit the wage job as my babysitter was making more money than I earned, and finished up a bunch of knitting UFOs. (They've all gone to their respective homes - most of them were Christmas gifts from 2006, 2005, and 2004... and the latest project strung on my needles is for ME.)

Simplicity 2935: it ( Read more... )

OK, I'm not dead.  Almost as good: I have my high-speed connection back.

But I am super-busy - and I'm not just saying that because I don't know how to manage my time even with flylady.net listed as my home page on my browser.

I am very sorry I can't catch up just yet with the F-list, and I haven't even tried to look at sew_hip or craftgrrl to see ( Read more... )

OMFG.

That's all I can say.  I've been calculating my business expenses (the sewing thing, you know, that thing that I started doing because I wanted to earn money while working from home, and instead got a part-time job to support? yeah, that) for 2007.  My Visa bills are structured very nicely to allow me to factor out interest charges and ( Read more... )

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Another nothing thing.

Kids are there to make sure you don't take yourself too seriously.  And to keep you honest.  And to keep you awake, no matter how tired you are.  And to keep your hair from staying straight and brown.  (Or whatever your hair colour was before you had kids.)

My 5-year-old son is short and skinny.  Granted, his dad's a short ( Read more... )