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IAN:Thursday 12/12/2024 Homemade Gift Cards
The water color sketch above is my homemade gift card. I posted about this some years ago but can’t find anything so here it is again. In a comment back and forth with bjbjbj, I said I was planning...
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IAN:Thursday 12/19/2024 The Holiday Season in Full Swing
The guild had its Christmas party Wednesday. We are in the middle of changing officers right now and it seemed no one wanted to be in charge. Things were chaotic, but it all worked out in the end....
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IAN: Thursday 12/26/2024 Written on Christmas Evening...
Because it is Christmas I’ll still be with my family tonight so am writing now, kind of a place holder. We are just about to sit down to dinner. Everyone is here and all the food so we are set. Let...
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IAN: Thursday 1/2/2025 Last 2024 Christmas Pix
I finally got some pix of the decor before I started to take it all down and put it away. I hope to get started on it tomorrow, but then I hoped I would today. All I did was sew today. Pix soon of...
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When was the last time someone killed over 1 dozen people because he loved Biden? When did someone crash a truck into a crowd of New Years revelers for Biden’s glory? What?? Oh, right, never. I’m...
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IAN:Thursday 1/9/2025 Show and Tell
I have some DIYs and quilts to show today. I have been promising some pix for a while. I took all these photos in my garden but you don’t see much of it. The one above is made with part of a round...
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IAN: Thursday 1/23/2025 They call me Baby Diamonds...
This is the baby quilt I have been making for the past couple of days. Each block is 9 in square with a 2 in sashing between. I am still deciding if I like the sashing. I think it is too thick and...
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IAN:Thursday 1/30/2025 Temporary new sewing machine
That picture title sounds like the “and Bob’s your Uncle” kind of set up but this Brother machine is on loan to me from my sister. She bought it a few years ago to make curtains and I ended up doing...
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IAN:Thursday 2/6/2025 Which Sewing Machine For Me?
In the spirit of the Vikings, perhaps I should arrange a burning ship on a lake or river, but that is just my interpretation of a Viking funeral, probably learned from a Bugs Bunny cartoon. I will...
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IAN:Thursday 2/13/2025 Try not to let this be you.
A little over 3 weeks ago, a man swiftly took my ATM card out of my hand at an outdoor ATM and handed me back a card that was not mine in the best close up hand magic I have seen in years before making...
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IAN: Thursday 2/20/2025 Just My Kitties
I looked through my pictures in the image library here and this one struck me. They look like they are covering for each other, Squirrel on her side and Moose on his back. They are so cute.As you can...
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IAN: Thursday 2/27/2025 Simple 1,2,3
I asked my guild sisters to donate tools and items from their store rooms that they didn’t use but were probably something someone else would. We all buy tools, rulers, cutters that we later move away...
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IAN:Friday 2/28/2025 Place Holder
I don’t find a current diary so I am posting this in its place. I hope the Florida family is ok. As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are...
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IAN: Thursday 3/6/2025 Sewing Machines Proliferate
When I joined the quilt guild in 2014, I was stunned at the number of sewing machines each member owned. I had a 1975 all metal Kenmore and that was it! Many of my guild sisters had 3 or more. It...
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IAN:Thursday 3/13/2025 Garden Pictures on a Dreary Day
The stag horn fern above came to me from my brother in law after my brother had died. It was one small foot, mounted on a huge board. It had come from a big one they had in San Diego but when he...
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IAN:Thursday 3/27/2025 Our 43rd Anniversary Garden Pix
Today is our 43rd wedding anniversary and I am bringing in some food from a great Vietnamese fusion place. It is garlic noodles and filet minion. We are sure Bill can eat it albeit slowly. I can not...
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IAN:Thursday 4/3/2025 Recipes from the Grave
I saw this story on the interwebs and it interested me because I had no idea! Engraving recipes on gravestones is a thing. YouTube VideoAs you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to...
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IAN:Thursday 4/10/2025 Wisteria, Then and Now
We built a pergola in the front yard years ago and planted wisteria on it in honor of Bill’s grandmother. The picture above is of one of two giant wisteria vines the were supported on long clothes...
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