Tweetcret Santa Revisited or, I Score Big

My fussing about Tweetcret Santa has not yet come to an end.  Mia Hansen sent me this beautiful little ceramic dish, crafted by Laura McKibbon, a friend of hers whose business is called Cul-de-Sac Design.  It was wrapped in the beautiful Erte print wrapping paper you see as background.  Total coolness!
Thank you, Mia, for resolving my [...]

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Our Mushroom

It’s the time of year when our avocado tree sheds its leaves, and I pile them up in the pot in a doubtless misguided attempt to create humus in the pot and fool our tree into thinking that it lives in an avocado grove, ranging free and untrammelled.  What really happens is that a fine [...]

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Pincushions! Prizes! Competition!

pear factory
Originally uploaded by Loobylu

Piecework magazine is sponsoring an Excellence in Needlework pincushion competition, with a $500 prize. Tell me you’re not dying to come up with the Platonic ideal of pincushionery and scoop that magic cash–not to mention the exhibition in the National NeedleArts Association conference, and the photospread in Piecework. The adorable pincushions [...]

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