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No Turkey Pictures Here!
The awful night of sleep filled with half nightmares about dinner being ruined didn't come true. Only one minor mishap. The bread. I think it was because I was getting a little cocky about being able to make it and I was meant to be taken down a peg or tow. But aside from my bread rising too much and collapsing somewhat (though remaining fairly ( Read more... ) -
Combatting Boredom
I've been finding new ways to divert my attention while doing other things. For example, at the office, I've little to nothing to do. I enter in some information, send a fax or two, make a phone call and answer the phone when it rings (which doesn't happen over much) and if I'm lucky I might get to scan something in or type up something. The ( Read more... ) -
Theme of the Day: Castles
The above is Tristyn attempting to use my cell phone to take a picture of his block castle. He accidentally turned on the 'Record a Video' instead of 'Take a Picture.' I found it very cute that he asked Maia what button to push to take the picture not realizing that it was filming the whole time.
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impatience...
why can't it be a virtue? =(
i started a princess placemat the other day and then this morning discovered that i did NOT have batting..but i had stuffing. tons of it. being too impatient to finish the project i decided to struggle with using stuffing as my batting and quilt it in diamonds.
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it's been a long, long weekend...
and i'm glad it's over. REALLY glad. enough said. =S
on a brighter note, i got this really great picture from saturday:
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our day so far...
i woke up WAY too early. like 6:15 because bob had to go out. we are working on gettting him to not need to be crated at night (because the crate is ugly and i don't want it in my bedroom forever). once i woke up a little and got some coffee in my system, i admired the grass which is finally despite the various weather issues is finally coming ( Read more... ) -
rainbow paper
The other day, on another person's blog (who found it from another blog, and so on and so on) i saw instructions on how to make 'scratchy rainbow paper.' it's not unlike the black paper that one uses a special marker to reveal the colors underneath. the only thing different is one 'scratches' a picture rather than using a marker with either a ( Read more... )
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