graceandham — Cute Embroidery

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Almost spring weather this morning - 50 degrees and wind. My fall leaf raking is finally done, really. My sons came yesterday and finished the last of eight rakings. I just couldn't do any more since November. My yard looks pristine! Hurrah! Time to

3 05 Feb 2018

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Make your own Band-Aids. Stitched today for the second time since last April. Well, when you're out of practice, your machine is out of sorts and you need to relearn some things you used to know. Didn't stitch myself, but slammed myself with the Brot

4 28 Jan 2018

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Found something even more lovely than browsing around on Cute on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Doing it with a blanket fresh from the dryer on a cold day! Now I know how happy Sugartoes is when I return his clean, dry, warm blanket.

3 22 Jan 2018

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Ten degrees, wind chills in the minuses, and 2 inches of snow on the ground. Unless memory fails me, this is the coldest day of my lifetime. The woods are sparkling, all is "calm and bright", not a car has gone down my road all morning - it is just vi

4 17 Jan 2018

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Yesterday's and today's and tomorrow's challenge was and will be to begin making sense of the sewing room again. Since last February I've not been going over the stairs to sew because of the knee issues. So, I've been sending my son up with little

9 12 Jan 2018

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The next adventure at my home in the woods. Well, you all know I have entertained foxes, a teenaged bear and lots of deer including twin babies in my yard, plus mice, scorpions, a nesting squirrel and a baby rattlesnake inside my house. Last night I set

16 10 Jan 2018

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Today I am considering my blessings and you, friends, are a blessing to me. Miss Veronica gives us this site as a place to meet and share the craft we love AND gives us so many beautiful designs. Be blessed on this holy night and tomorrow with your love

4 24 Dec 2017

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Snow report. Approximately one inch of snow last night, ground mostly covered. Internet, television and phone went down between voting on Amazing and voting on Cute times. Cell reception only if I stood in the snow, way up a long driveway, so not much p

2 10 Dec 2017

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Color news flash: Pantone has just announced the color of 2018 as Pantone18-3838, which is a rich purple. Expect to see this color cycle through the clothing and interior design worlds for at least two years. Sometimes, as the trend fades, the color its

0 07 Dec 2017

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Aargh! The workman who could not come or even schedule for at least three weeks, last week, called this morning to say he happened to be on my street and could come by and measure my project. I told him to give me five minutes - that was the mad dash int

4 30 Nov 2017

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One knee, one burner Thanksgiving. This week on Public Radio, they ran an article about how two people cooked everything for the feast with four burners and a stove set to 400 degrees in one day. Big deal. I'm cooking mine at the moment with only one

3 23 Nov 2017

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Many of you are familiar with the beautiful work of Missi Phillips on Skeldate House. According to her newsletter, she lost her husband of 44 years to a stroke this week and says she may be "aloof" for awhile - I take that as, needing some time for self

8 08 Nov 2017

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by graceandham in Community

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Oh my, it's fall finally. Raked and mowed and blew off the drive yesterday and noticed at dusk that the woods are suddenly GOLDEN. We must have had a really cold night, because this morning my driveway couldn't be seen at all in some spots for all the

5 07 Nov 2017

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by graceandham in Community

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Just saw my garden go past 44,444 flowers. Thanks Cuties! Anybody else fascinated by numbers?

6 27 Oct 2017

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Sugartoes had his first bath in 8 years of being Most Favored Cat. Wow, can he yowl and growl. He has had three months of flea meds and still had fleas and scratching all the time. (Think I got a bad batch.) Well, he survived and feels much better now

6 16 Oct 2017