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I have no idea how far back I have set myself, but it’s nearly midnight and I’m behind on updating the blog, cleaning three rooms, laundry and prep for tomorrow’s deadline.
Why, you wonder, O Gentle Reader? Because I decided it would be a great idea to look at my yarn stash tonight. [...]
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It’s after Christmas and the damage on the wallet is still rolling in, but soon the financial bleeding will stop (before the tax bleed begins). The house is still a wreck, and dusting the darn nutcracker is fiddly. One entire box of lights hasn’t been put up in two years, and didn’t get up again [...]
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A while back, I wrote that creativity is messy, in that there is not a linear path from inspiration all the way to execution. Sometimes there are messes to make to get to the good stuff, sometimes it is in cleaning up the mess that one discovers the nugget.
Today and yesterday, I have been getting [...]
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There have been many many blog ideas come and go in the past few days. I cannot spend the time to do justice to any of them. I’m leaving for Africa on Monday, and my experience with international travel is that, despite global economy, it is unlikely that a Walgreen’s will be on every corner. [...]
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Collecting things and putting them into artful arrangement is uniquely satisfying – this is the very definition of collage. But that’s a final step. First, there must be the sourcing and collecting.
I’ll discuss sourcing later, but first collecting. Humans quite simply LOVE collections and collecting. You can find a collector’s group for almost [...]
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Everyone knows what happens to a clean litter box, a clean diaper and a clean countertop. In the case of the first two, as we say in Arizona, caca pasa. And for that countertop? Matter will be created to clutter it up. This is known as TigerWillow’s Law of Flat Surfaces. (I’m working very hard [...]
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