I cleared off my fireplace mantle today (I still had Easter decorations up there!), and found a long-forgotten plush tribble that had popped a seam. A little thread and about 5 minutes, and I made a little girl (who had forgotten all about it) very happy!


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I finished the last of the repairs for my mom's friend.


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[Disclaimer: I had a bead meetup today, so I was able to work a lot more than 30 minutes on things for Day 1!]

I’ve had a repair commission sitting around for weeks while I found the right elastic to restring it. I should have bought both sizes that I found, because what I used was probably a bit big. It worked out in the end, though!


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So, I have been crafting pretty regularly, but I haven't been taking daily pictures. However, that's going to change. I'm doing the 30for30crafting challenge over on Tumblr, and I thought I'd post here as well.

I have a lot of pictures to show, so I'm going to list them by project, and put them under a cut...

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Well, I had the best intentions for cross stitching today - I had it in my bag and everything, so I could stitch while children were at the library and playground. And I did about a dozen stitches at the library! And then, I discovered I had done a previous section wrong, and I had to frog it. Some of it is restitched, but not all, yet. :/ A rather ( Read more... )

I've been watching quite a bit of my DVRed Beads, Baubles, and Jewels lately, because one of my kids thinks all grown-up dramas are scary (but watched Jurassic Park the other night with barely a fuss, go figure!), and I was feeling like I really would like to be creative more, but I've had a hard time being motivated, and there's been kid stuff, ( Read more... )

16 Nov

I restrung a necklace for my mom (that I made years and years ago; I have no idea how she wears out SoftFlex!).


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I woke up Sunday with the crud my kids have had since Tuesday. :( I was supposed to go to a bead meetup that day, but stayed home so I didn't pass on my crud. The meetup theme was to fix and finish projects. I have a bunch of broken and unfinished projects, so this last week of the challenge, I'm going to fix and finish a bunch of things.

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