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A Little Kid to Dress

Two snowdrop fairy scarves, going to the top tier Patreon boxes. I wish I had a little kid at home who still let me dress them, because I totally want to sew a pretty frock in one of these fabrics, for oh, a five-year-old? Alas! Ah well — Spoonflower is having one of their big […]

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Kavi’s First Mini Job

Kavi has finished two weeks as a counsellor-in-training at Camp Spark, the all-day local camp she and Anand both went to as kids. She did great, and was very fond of the kids, and very sad saying goodbye to them all on Friday. She really liked the work overall (though she’s discovered that little kids

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A Puttering Weekend

It’s a puttering weekend — just kind of rolling through one little project after another, interspersed with cleaning and organizing, accompanied by season 1 of Babylon 5. Y’all, the writing is not subtle. The acting is mostly not impressing me either. I can see the long story arcs starting to build, which I know was

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Delightfully Eclectic

Finished the little botanical clay bookmarks for the Patreon boxes. The clay darkens a little on baking — it’d definitely going to take some practice to figure out how to get consistent results. Luckily, I don’t need consistent results — delightfully eclectic works for me. I’m still figuring out everything that will go in this

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51st Birthday Coming Up

Hey, it’s my 51st birthday next week. I usually buy myself a birthday present (could be an object, could be an activity), but am feeling uninspired. Kevin and the kids have something planned, but I usually make sure I do something fun myself. Suggestions welcome. Would prefer to spend less than $100, and not be

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Garden Log 7/16/22

So, even though this has no living garden elements, it’s garden-themed! This is actually what gave the result I was happiest with — I had a rolling pin that I’d bought on Etsy a while ago, which I intended to use for cookies, but I’d been frustrated with it, because it had such fine and

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