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Month: June 2026
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I’ve finished three projects lately. First up a new-to-me dress pattern. It’s the Friday Pattern Company Hughes Dress. Here’s the description from Friday Pattern Company: It features Viennese seams, gathered sleeves, and a gorgeous scoop neckline. The bodice is lined and the skirt has an a-line sweep. It buttons up the front and has an adjustable…
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When they greet us at the door we call them our kitty comittee and they are growing like weeds. Here they are on May 14. And here they are in the window again on June 18. It’s very difficult to get good photos of the girls – the black ones. We adore them all and…
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There’s a fun new business in Chicago called The Strip Club. From their web site: The Strip Club” is Chicago’s first and only photobooth studio featuring a collection of rare, vintage photobooths and our retro-style digital photobooths. Each booth has a different format and feel. Customers take their own photos the old-fashioned way, climb in…
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I have struggled the last couple summers getting motivated to work on my windows. And I realize it’s because it is at it’s heart a demoralizing endeavor The reasons I am trying to restore the nearly 100 year old windows on my house are a) they are lovely windows that are a big feature of…
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Here’s the saga of my pea plants this year. I bought shelling pea seeds because I forgot to order snap pea seeds and that is what the store had. They were growing really well. I made one small harvest. Shellng peas is fun. Most of them weren’t big enough yet – I needed to wait.…
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I’ll begin with a springy photo of home. After a long stretch of chilly weather we are finally getting some warmth. So here’s what my family members and I have been up to. Brian took himself on a mini vacation to Lisbon a few weeks ago. He sent me several photos of interesting tiles. We…