tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74411251909986489062024-03-05T17:33:42.810-07:00a month of sundaysdiannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01292769087215827768noreply@blogger.comBlogger609125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7441125190998648906.post-82016142279251771842022-05-06T10:00:00.001-06:002022-05-06T10:00:00.192-06:00well...<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Asap;">picture this with pictures...</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Asap;">yeah, i know - and that's the <b>most recent</b> issue with not blogging for two years...</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Asap;">it seems that phones are cameras now...</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Asap;">and my phone doesn't like talking to the computer...</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Asap;">i doubt that the problem is with the phone or with the computer...</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Asap; font-size: xx-small;">mmhmmm ... i have issues</span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Asap;">so i looked through the pictures that are already on the computer to see if maybe i could find SOMETHING to post about...</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc2X39-7YxEUkNEHJkHkyx5GfD7HWjVgBIcJqgWUbQ6fWRH8QEd3OY-3gQYl9YTp1cxVKjjUjkh05j6YO7ie7FXnks50jYhvaZRopVg-rYIlBdRiqRLFnVvSJMhpelArrWv_-ccOt6uIngp8vHcw-xFmoS-iPXhHooavIcPcboaGKBqX7IoLKvj6bV/s3164/20191208_162310.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3164" data-original-width="1595" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc2X39-7YxEUkNEHJkHkyx5GfD7HWjVgBIcJqgWUbQ6fWRH8QEd3OY-3gQYl9YTp1cxVKjjUjkh05j6YO7ie7FXnks50jYhvaZRopVg-rYIlBdRiqRLFnVvSJMhpelArrWv_-ccOt6uIngp8vHcw-xFmoS-iPXhHooavIcPcboaGKBqX7IoLKvj6bV/s320/20191208_162310.jpg" width="161" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Asap;">how 'bout this?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Asap;">a "native american" barbie doll that needed to be something <i>more</i>... </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Asap;">like, maybe a tree topper for my bedroom's <a href="https://whatisstarbucking.blogspot.com/search/label/Spirit%20Guide%20Tree%20Skirt" target="_blank">christmas tree</a>...</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Asap; font-size: xx-small;">down the rabbit hole...</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Asap;">after a <i>how to</i> search on the <i>World Wide Web</i> and <i>You Tube</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Asap;"> and following along with various and sundry tutorials...</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFyr2aJNPab92q_AzafEkMH0xtLLdIqBB8EiypvqrFRnIbsaaHOxnatFE_KfUbQXoT79oULh3N1yas6TdBWnxUPGIG0DJ0g2_qU3YS4DorKkD2-4IlDbrQQxLZpjYdNkrH3kYlfXWEzEfZD1MSx5E0ezEsIdEEtrfa54Y5FyA3U3IOZbfJ94e2m1wg/s2792/20191208_162237.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2792" data-original-width="2391" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFyr2aJNPab92q_AzafEkMH0xtLLdIqBB8EiypvqrFRnIbsaaHOxnatFE_KfUbQXoT79oULh3N1yas6TdBWnxUPGIG0DJ0g2_qU3YS4DorKkD2-4IlDbrQQxLZpjYdNkrH3kYlfXWEzEfZD1MSx5E0ezEsIdEEtrfa54Y5FyA3U3IOZbfJ94e2m1wg/s320/20191208_162237.jpg" width="274" /></a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: xx-small;">...because every picture tells a story...</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p></p><br />diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01292769087215827768noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7441125190998648906.post-25548438264611651002020-05-15T07:30:00.000-06:002020-05-20T15:16:05.095-06:00Σ<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to wait for Chapter 3 to be released on May 1 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> i was gonna finish the parchment edges, but we both ran outta DMC 746 (the lightest cream) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">and we're STILL waiting for our order to be delivered</span>...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hedwig the Owl came from <a href="https://lordlibidan.com/little-mojo-cross-stitch-patterns/">here</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and Fawkes the Phoenix was smooshed together from two other phoenix charts that i saw <i>somewhere</i> on line... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> the Hogwarts castle and the eagle in the Ravenclaw banner sent me over the edge </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> so we ordered <a href="http://www.hobbyware.com/">cross stitch design software</a> from Amazon, not realizing that the software we ordered is no longer supported...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Chapter 3 is Elective classes - with a choice between Divination, Care of Magical Creatures, or Ancient Runes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and i wanted to stitch them all </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> of course they won't all fit, so both of us have decided to design our own Chapter 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">i'm thinking that it would be waaaay cool to have a stack of books for ALL of the classes and not just electives </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">cuz who doesn't love a stack of awesome books?!?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Melissa wants ALL of the magical creatures on the bottom of the stitchery instead of in Chapter 3's space, along with Hagrid's Hut and the Forbidden Forest </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">cuz why settle for a tiny corner of the stitchery when she can fill up the whole thing?!?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">yeah, maybe we should wait to see what the other 3 chapters will be...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">i started working on this stack of quilts that are waiting for binding...</span></div>
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i traded it for a ballpoint needle and one layer of linen...</div>
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and now i'm gonna go slog through some more binding </div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Riddikulus!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">Remus Lupin in <u>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban</u></span></div>
diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01292769087215827768noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7441125190998648906.post-76954137021734938902020-05-14T09:27:00.000-06:002020-05-14T09:27:05.491-06:00phoenix rising<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01292769087215827768noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7441125190998648906.post-29990930232827834282020-05-13T09:32:00.000-06:002020-05-13T09:32:04.141-06:00seeker keeper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01292769087215827768noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7441125190998648906.post-71935210907124730142020-05-12T09:28:00.000-06:002020-05-12T09:28:01.954-06:00ruffled feathers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01292769087215827768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7441125190998648906.post-40797307237594823942020-04-14T16:06:00.000-06:002020-04-14T16:06:20.659-06:00swish and flick<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">this is my wand for the <a href="http://cunningcrossstitch.blogspot.com/p/syoa-letters-from-hogwarts.html">Letters From Hogwarts Stitch-Your-Own-Adventure</a>...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the wood that i was trying to emulate is beetle kill pine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">when i looked for examples of beetle kill pine</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> i found <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetle_kill_in_Colorado">this</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and lottsa pictures of furniture that has been made from the lumber that has been harvested from our mountain forests</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> which used to be gorgeous greens, but are now stained with hundreds of thousands of the red skeletons of pines the killing beetles have left behind...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">anywho...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the current governor of our great state gives a COVID-19 update almost daily</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and sometimes i listen to him<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">if the tv happens to be on and i happen to be in the same room</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">which i was the other day</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">he stands behind a lectern and presents a PowerPoint slideshow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that shows the numbers of those infected</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">which is misleading, since testing is by doctor-authorized prescription and performed only on those who are presenting symptoms because, big surprise, there aren't enough tests</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>or</b> the capacity to process the tests that there <b>are</b> - just sayin'</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and those hospitalized</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and those in ICU</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and those who have died...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">it's disturbing and i try to not listen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>especially</i> when he says, <i><b>"Next slide, please"</b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">because it <i><b>sounds</b></i> like he's saying, <i><b>"Next lie, please"</b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">it's true - try saying those words quickly and see if you don't hear the same thing</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">sometimes we hear what we hear, even if we <i>don't want</i> to hear it...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>anywho</b></i>...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the other day when he was saying</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we're </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">all in this together</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i> we will get through this if we stay home</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i> and practice social distancing</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i> and wear our masks</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i looked up and saw this...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;">screen grab from Channel 7 news</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and then focused in on this...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the lectern has beetle kill pine panels!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">yep, <i><b>that</b></i> was my take away - which is pretty doggone cool, innit?!?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and that's the look that i was going for when i stitched my wand</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the floss is DMC 4065 <span style="font-size: xx-small;">morning meadow</span> and it is backstitched with DMC 898 <span style="font-size: xx-small;">very dark coffee brown</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and i really, <i><b>really</b></i> like it!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">What's comin' will come, an' we'll meet it when it does.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">Hagrid in <u>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire</u></span><br />
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diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01292769087215827768noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7441125190998648906.post-74065281742896221902020-04-06T09:37:00.000-06:002020-04-13T09:40:15.779-06:00i solemnly swear<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that i am up to no good...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we've listened to all seven of the <u>Harry Potter and the <i>Fill In The Blank</i></u> books </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and this is how much i've stitched...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in 117 hours and four minutes, give or take a minute or two...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">liberties have been taken with the original design, lemmetellya</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i've changed the castle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and the wand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and Chapter One's banner</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and i'm<i> gonna</i> change the top border's owls </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and Chapter Two's quidditch </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and the bottom border's letters</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>and that's okay cuz this IS a <a href="http://cunningcrossstitch.blogspot.com/p/syoa-letters-from-hogwarts.html">Stitch Your Own Adventure</a></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">so far the stitching has been a lotta fun!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am what I am, an' I'm not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed', my ol' dad used ter say, 'There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth botherin' with.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">Hagrid in <u>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire</u></span></div>
diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01292769087215827768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7441125190998648906.post-86543117914085226542020-04-05T14:30:00.001-06:002020-04-05T14:30:58.122-06:00necessary evils<div style="text-align: center;">
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diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01292769087215827768noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7441125190998648906.post-7741125359608629802020-03-11T09:33:00.000-06:002020-03-11T09:33:51.051-06:00outward<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">i've wanted to try my hand at a convex quilt since <a href="https://mollybawnchronicles.blogspot.com/">Molly's</a> visit to this <a href="https://mollybawnchronicles.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-crock-of-gold-en-quilts-for-day-thats.html">quilt show</a>... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so i bought a <a href="https://www.kwiltart.com/Convex-Illusions-p/1001ka.htm">pattern</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and promptly forgot about it...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">last year i started a purge of the Great Pile of Stuff</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> with the thought in mind that i would no longer just go through stuff...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> i would put up or shut up...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">no more shuffling patterns and fabric and project boxes from one pizza box to another </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">or from one shelf to the closet to under the ironing station</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> if i put my hands upon it </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it was either going to become something or it was going out...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">before you ask </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>and how's THAT going for you?!?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">the answer is <i><b>slowly</b></i>...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">one of the first patterns that i picked up from the GPS was Convex Illusions </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and, having placed my hands upon it, knew that it was then or never...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so i grabbed two big enough pieces of fabric from the batiks and put this together...</span></div>
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and it wasn't as difficult as i was afraid it would be</div>
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lots and lots of seams </div>
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and lots and lots of corners to match</div>
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but kinda fun...</div>
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but then i was at a loss of what to do with it cuz it took all but a few inches of those two fabrics and there wasn't anymore to work with...</div>
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so i went back to purging...</div>
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and two months later </div>
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i added strips of the center's brown for an inner border</div>
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diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01292769087215827768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7441125190998648906.post-15477326554419375392020-03-09T19:02:00.000-06:002020-03-11T09:33:51.018-06:00H is for Hogwarts<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we've stitched and listened long enough to save Sirius Black!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and now, on to <u>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire</u>...</span></div>
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diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01292769087215827768noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7441125190998648906.post-53244672573972283132020-03-04T18:47:00.003-07:002020-10-23T23:20:34.386-06:00aw, come on!!!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">still listening to <u>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban</u>...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger. Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all.</span></div>
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diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01292769087215827768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7441125190998648906.post-56488704542243500432020-03-01T18:42:00.000-07:002020-03-11T09:33:51.046-06:00slogging along<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">more listening to </span><u style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets</u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and moving on to <u>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban</u></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">...</span></div>
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diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01292769087215827768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7441125190998648906.post-35767112047722487172020-02-27T18:29:00.000-07:002020-03-11T09:33:51.034-06:00outlines<div style="text-align: center;">
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diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01292769087215827768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7441125190998648906.post-30640485472949888232020-02-24T18:14:00.000-07:002020-03-11T09:33:51.028-06:00more parchment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hey - i turned a corner or three!!!</span></div>
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diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01292769087215827768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7441125190998648906.post-73154543737055793682020-02-21T17:47:00.000-07:002020-03-11T08:37:07.382-06:00parchment<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i decided to start with Chapter 1... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we listened to five hours of <u>Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone</u> and this is what i have to show for it...</span><br />
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diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01292769087215827768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7441125190998648906.post-90349793757729639182020-02-20T17:33:00.000-07:002020-03-11T11:52:50.159-06:00rabbit holes<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">one of my mom's favorite phrases when i was a kid was</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <b><i>look it up</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">if i asked her how to spell a word </span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">look it up</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">or what is the capital of Chile</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">look it up</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> or how many feet are there in a mile</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">look it up</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> whatever i needed to know </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for whatever reason </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">she almost always said</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">look it up</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">back then the looking up was in Webster's or our set of encyclopedias </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">that a door to door salesmen talked a poor working family into buying when it was something they could really not afford ... but i digress</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">anywho, she almost never let the answers roll off her tongue</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> she said</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">look it up</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> i dunno know if she realized that <i><b>looking it up</b></i> meant that for the next hour (or two or three) i would be in my own little world, reading the dictionary or the encyclopedia because, invariably, i would see something that led me to something else</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and then to something else </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and on and on...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">anywho...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">it's the same thing now ... i will wonder how to make a deliciously gooey <a href="https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/chocolate-lava-cakes-2312421">lava cake</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">or what <a href="https://www.thesilverneedle.com/dmc6strandfloss.html">the color name</a> is for DMC Floss #319<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (it's Very Dark Pistachio Green)</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">or where to find a <a href="https://www.paperpanache.com/product-page/paper-snow-paper-pieced-quilt-pattern">paper pieced pattern for a snowflake</a> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(not for the faint of heart)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and a couple of hours later i will realize that yes, indeed, there are forty-three gazillion possible ways to make lava cakes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but now there is no time to bake one, so i dunno if it would be a deliciously gooey lava cake cuz i fell down a rabbit hole...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">oh, those rabbit holes...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and that is how i stumbled across <a href="http://cunningcrossstitch.blogspot.com/p/syoa-letters-from-hogwarts.html">Stitch Your Own Adventure - Letters From Hogwarts</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(<b>not</b> a secure site, so if you don't go to <b>not </b>secured sites, don't follow the link)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the Stitch A Long started back in september of 2019, but i didn't discover it till late december</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and then lost the link a few times before i figured out how to bookmark it so i could show it to Melissa...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> i told her that i wanted to start it and asked if she was interested in stitching, too, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">she said <i><b>yes</b></i>, she was interested, <i><b>very much so</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and, even though we were hopelessly behind everyone else, we came up with a plan - we would stitch our own adventures and not worry about catching up with everyone else - it would be just Melissa and me <strike>competing</strike> stitching side by side...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">so we set about getting everything ready to start our stitching...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we ordered <a href="https://mysticfabrics.com/">fabric</a>...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we needed a memory stick to take to kinko's in order to print the introduction and the floss list and the charts...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> we waited till there was a <i>40% off your entire regular priced purchase</i> coupon for <a href="https://www.joann.com/">Joann</a>'s so we could buy two sets of floss and needles </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and then </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i typed up the floss labels whilst Melissa punched holes into snack bags, reinforced those holes, and put the snack bags on two big rings...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we found small backpacks shaped like owls...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and Melissa made zipper pulls...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and scissor fobs...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we needed notebooks to hold our charts...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and journals for notes...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and totes for each of us...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and a big black basket to hold the totes...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and fabric for snippets and microwave-a-bowls...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we used seven of our Audible credits to buy all of the Harry Potter books to listen to whilst we stitch away...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">Albus Dumbledore in <u>Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">sometimes i shop for myself and give whatever it is that i think i can't live without to Melissa</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a couple of christmases ago</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Melissa gave me a <a href="https://hoffmancaliforniafabrics.net/php/catalog/fabricshop.php?a=fs&Category=39&file=10&pass=1">buffalo panel</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">i wanted it cuz of the buffalo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">for the<a href="https://whatisstarbucking.blogspot.com/search/label/White%20Buffalo"> White Buffalo </a>quilt that i'm supposed to be making but hasn't seen the light of day for <strike>a gazillion</strike> three years</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but when i got a good look at it </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">i fell in lurve with the bluebirds...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">do bluebirds actually hang out with buffalo?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i dunno - but i'd like to think that they do</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">anywho...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my mom lurved bluebirds, too</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">i was really missing her </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and i thought</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>why not surround that big old buffalo with a bunch more bluebirds?!?</b></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so i bought the <a href="https://www.thepatternbasket.com/product-page/feathers">Feathers</a> pattern from The Pattern Basket</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and, since it was spring, tested it with robins...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">after tweaking it a bit, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">drafted it for paper-piecing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">then did a mirror image so the birds could be facing each other</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and went shopping for blues and oranges and creams</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and started piecing birds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">boy birds and girl birds with prairie point beaks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that surrounded that big old buffalo...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">it was getting a bit larger than planned and i was running outta background fabric</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">even though there were more birds in the flock </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and add the other birds to the back...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">that was also purchased for the White Buffalo quilt - twice - so there was a spare</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">cuz i can't ever remember what i have and what i <i>think</i> i have in the Great Pile of Stuff</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and then sent off to Liz <span style="font-size: xx-small;">the World's Most Awesome Longarm Quilter</span> in Michigan </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">after Liz worked her magick </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and the boy birds are facing not right for a reason, y'all</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">too bad i used all that leftover fabric from the front cuz i was gonna need more of those blues a couple of months later when i started the piecing for <a href="https://whatisstarbucking.blogspot.com/search/label/serenity">Serenity</a>!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">cuz, seriously, with buffalo and wings </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">what else <b><i>could</i></b> it be named?!?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.</span></div>
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<a href="https://whatisstarbucking.blogspot.com/2017/03/raising-rays.html">the last time that i wrote about Mother Earth Father Sky was march 16, 2017</a></div>
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sheesh - that's almost three years ago!!!</div>
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i'd managed to piece two rays</div>
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fast forward to whenever this fabric:</div>
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<a href="https://hoffmancaliforniafabrics.net/php/catalog/fabricshop.php?a=fs&Category=53&file=1&pass=1">Hoffman Digital Out Of This World Earth Panel</a> </div>
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arrived on the scene </div>
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and i knew without even seeing it in Real Life that<i> </i></div>
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<i>even if i had no idea where else to go with the <b>front</b></i></div>
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i'd found the <b><i>backing</i></b> for Mother Earth Father Sky</div>
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so i ordered the panel and some coordinating space fabric...</div>
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appliqued <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(shudder)</span> a moon for the name...</div>
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and put the backing together...</div>
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and i gave myself a deadline </div>
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by embroidering an <i><b>end date</b></i> on the moon...</div>
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which, of course, meant that it was past time to work on those rays...</div>
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so i finished the final four and added some black fabric around them...</div>
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it looked more like a Black Hole swallowing up Mother Earth</div>
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than like Father Sky...</div>
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so i paper-pieced a full moon...</div>
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which was a bit better...</div>
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but not enough...</div>
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maybe the Solar System? </div>
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but how was i gonna manage to show Mercury and Venus in that little space between the Sun and Mother Earth without using the dreaded A word?!?<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></div>
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what to do?!? what to do?!? what to do?!?</div>
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BUTTONS!!!</div>
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so Melissa helped me find buttons for the other eight planets </div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">cuz in THIS home, Pluto is still a planet</span></div>
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using USPS stamps as a reference...</div>
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we laid them out where they oughta go and </div>
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i marked the different places with the names for each planet</div>
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and embroidered those names</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> so that i would know where to sew on the buttons after it came back from Liz (the most wonderful of all longarm quilters EVER) ...</span></div>
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and then decided that it was still gonna need <b><i>more of sumpin'</i></b>...</div>
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CONSTELLATIONS!!! COMETS!!!</div>
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which meant RESEARCH!!!</div>
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and more embroidery...</div>
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and lots and lots of shopping at all the local Joann stores to find enough tiny white star buttons to add after quilting </div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">the white stars were in packages with red stars and blue stars </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">and now i have a whole lotta red and blue star buttons taking up space in the Great Pile of Stuff</span></div>
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till i had this...</div>
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and i spread it out so everyone could see how wonderful it was</div>
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only to hear</div>
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<b>What<i> ARE </i>those?!?</b><br />
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<b>Are those<i> SUPPOSED </i>to be<i> TEEPEES</i>?!?</b></div>
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sigh<br />
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what to do?!? what to do?!? what to do?!?<br />
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hearths? yeah, hearths would leave no doubt that those are teepees...<br />
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so i searched and searched and searched for<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> affordable</span> campfire buttons</div>
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and came up empty-handed... </div>
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back to the embroidery hoop...<br />
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and then i decided that enough is enough<br />
and sent it off to Liz to be quilted...<br />
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which she did,<b><i> awesomely</i></b>!!!</div>
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when Mother Earth Father Sky came back from its journey to Michigan </div>
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it was time to trim and bind...<br />
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and sew on a gazillion buttons...</div>
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and become...<br />
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a quilt with so many sharp little star buttons that no one will <i><b>ever</b></i> be able to snuggle under it without looking like they've been chased through the briar patch...</div>
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and maybe it's okay for some quilts to be just for lookin' at<br />
and not for sleepin' under...<br />
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<br />diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01292769087215827768noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7441125190998648906.post-18375503005890182242019-07-21T12:05:00.000-06:002019-07-21T15:03:41.992-06:00open door policy<img alt="funny" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2F736x%2F18%2F25%2F53%2F182553ce4cb991a2ce61d131547cff2a.jpg&t=1557770136&ymreqid=12837683-21fc-8248-2f64-a50006010000&sig=lF3nHhYgxM9.bSFggOqx9w--~C" /><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">disclaimer - this thought is not mine, originally</span></div>
diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01292769087215827768noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7441125190998648906.post-28182820673211409472019-07-19T14:51:00.000-06:002019-07-21T15:03:42.034-06:00on betrayal...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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