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Wanted: Your old wrapping paper

January 4th, 2010 by J. · 2 Comments

We have something nasty at our house.  The flu?  A really bad cold?
C&D are spending a lot of their time horizontal on the furniture or even on the floor.  (But not the bed . . . too many connotations of sleep there!)  I totally understand—I’m sick, too.
Now and then, though, we all have little bursts [...]

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Tags: Crafty · Dynamic Duo · Learn, Baby, Learn

9mm Knitting Needles

December 21st, 2007 by J.

I’m tired.  Too tired to play with C&D, too tired to blog, too tired even to watch TV on mute.
Not quite ready to fall asleep, earlier this evening I pulled out my new knitting needles and yarn.  Halfway through the evening’s second knit row, Carmen found me in the bed and began stroking the yarn.  [...]

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Tags: Crafty · Dynamic Duo · My Brain (and the AVM)

Remodeling in Progress

October 23rd, 2007 by J. · 1 Comment

Please excuse our virtual dust. We’re moving the blog from Blogger to a WordPress server (thanks, Matt!). The dust should be settled by the end of the month.

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Tags: Crafty

Paper Pots

July 1st, 2007 by J.

The plans, before I hurt my head and before I realized the house leaked every time it rained hard, were that we were going to landscape the grass and path adjacent to our house. Winter led to spring, spring led to summer, and I have packets of seeds on my dresser wondering what they’re doing [...]

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Tags: Crafty · Domesticity

Make Things for Babies (but maybe not mine)

June 4th, 2005 by J.

In the way that one click-click-clicks through the web and finds oneself in a new and wonderful place, I came upon Jan Andrea: at home on the web. The patterns here are terrific! I am sad I didn’t find her mobile graphics when I was looking for them months and months ago; instead we made [...]

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Tags: Crafty