Last weekend I spent 5 hours patching a bedsheet. Yes, I know, my intense party lifestyle astounds. To be fair, I hadn’t intended to spend 5 hours at it, but I’d already patched this sheet a lot over the years, and it needed something of an overhaul to hope I could get it to limp along longer than just one or two more cycles. Here’s a picture of one section of it, on my side of the bed. Have I…
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This summer I finished another cross-stitch. Like the last one I posted about, this is also a Mirabilia Designs cross-stitch (from a pattern released in 2006), and is called The Stargazer. As you will see, it’s not a particularly colorful design (so many different blues!). But, I’m a sucker for star-themed images to start with, and I feel like this design has such an elegant balance, I just couldn’t resist it. One thing I love about cross-stitches is how the…
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The once-a-year bounty of pears this year has been particularly bountiful. Here are some of them, getting ready to be made into pearsauce.
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So, last week was the Final Installment of SSCS 03: Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About. I hope you enjoyed it! The next SSCS will start up in January. As usual, SSCS 04 was written using the same approach as all the other SSCS’s, and this time I think I gave myself quite a run for my money, trying to keep all the details (characters) straight! Although I won’t be posting the SSCS 04 story title or first installment until…