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Continue reading →: New (old) loom
My mother picked me up a present at a rummage sale this summer, and I finally got to see it when I visited for Thanksgiving. This is the box I was presented with… .. and its contents. She called me from the sale to inquire whether the loom was worth…
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Continue reading →: You had the words, now see the pictures
My mom’s cute little condo, with plants in the windowboxes, and plants inside. The Xena kitty, and her brother Sammy. The family gathering, to celebrate both the holiday and my grandfather’s birthday. Loom photos next time!
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Continue reading →: Happy Thanksgiving
I had a post planned, with my new old loom, my mother’s cute new condo, and the social and the antisocial cat. I even remembered to take the pictures, something I’m perennially bad at. Pictures are copied onto the computer, even. But… I have no photo editing software on this…
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You gotta see this!
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Continue reading →: You gotta see this!Sprang thingie. Worse, I want to make one, just for the fun of figuring out how to do it in the round like that. Edit: More on sprang thingie, thanks Alwen!
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Continue reading →: Beads
Baking and the associated dishwashing were not my only activities today. There was quite a lot of coffee-drinking and snow-watching as well, seasoned by a large dose of last.fm. A few more active endeavors: I can easily get to my bookshelf for the first time in the past year. Business…
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Continue reading →: Grandma’s Apple Cake
It’s snowing, and I have nowhere I must be. What to do? Bake! Apple Cake 2 c chopped apples 1 c sugar (or a bit less if you’d like) 1 1/2 c flour 1 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp nutmeg 1/2 tsp allspice (I…
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A couple of unrelated links
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Continue reading →: A couple of unrelated linksA couple of completely unrelated things found online… Melissa Etheridge weighs in on the passing of Prop 8 in California. I read this interview with artist Lisa Snellings-Clark when it first came out, but one part stuck in my head, and I have to share. Lisa said: “Jane Frank gave…
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Continue reading →: Amazing
Though my world looks like this: the valiant petunias are still clinging to life. Looking a bit ragged, but still green and with flowers. Those petunias are tough.
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Continue reading →: The photo version
Fabulous: (photo languishing on my camera since Halloween) Not fabulous: (except that it’s a very appealing tree with its leaves off). It’s not supposed to even snow enough to shovel, but still…
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Continue reading →: Making lists
Things that are fabulous: Lithuanian National Musical Folklore LibraryThing A highly successful FFF That Rosalind and her family were able to hang around all of Sunday afternoon I sold a whole pile of handpainted sock yarn at FFF, which means that I get to buy more yarn Entering all my…
Welcome!
I’ve been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala’s String Page.
I also do some science and write some fiction.
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