So this its the quilt that's been some twenty+ years in the making. If you're some sort of quilting purist, look away, because this is definitely function over form.


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What is this? This!!! This is what the end of nine yards of lace looks like. This is bobbins no longer attached to a project! This is me not having to flip the cat off my lap *again*!  This is the project I was sure I could get done by May. At least I never said what *year* I'd finish in...

I still need to trim ends, but I have to say this is the ( Read more... )

So I found myself looking up some old friends... We're talking grade school, in a couple cases, and college. Happily found a couple, especially one from college. He was, it turns out, my first desperate college crush, too, but my habit of being friends first has paid off again, thankfully. If I'm real lucky, he won't remember what a total nutbar I ( Read more... )

So today turned  into a random project day. SO was busy at work doing annoying must-be-done things, and I suddenly found myself beheading the marigolds - I've been meaning to grab their seeds since the grounds crew wacked them (grumble grumble grumble). Ended up mulching the tomato plant into that area too, no sense wasting it or it's dirt.

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I got a surprising amount of random stuff done today. Nothing really super important, maybe, but stuff that mostly needed doing. Magnets on the kitchen cabinets (we'll see if they're enough to stop the cat). Cleaned all the dishes and counters. Mopped the winter off the kitchen floor. Planted stuff. And finally tried that chocolate chantilly recipe ( Read more... )

Just loaded the new LJ android app and want to make sure it functions. Hopefully this will work better than the mobile site ever did for me :)

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