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goodbye sweet sweet summer...
yes, i do have to say goodbye to the sweetest of summers...as much as i want to fight the next season from coming, just a bit longer...i must say goodbye.life has changed drastically in just a week for...
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and as i opened the box...
i know exactly how each and every one of you feel when you open your door and find to your glee a box of carefully packed game boards for your home....the excitement of cutting the tapes, pulling out...
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and after hours and hours of waiting....
(painting by: baret boisson, american artist)the President of the United States of America, the Commander in Chief, the 44th American President - in other words, the top dog...came through our little...
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a new gee's bend...
i thought, well the holidays are coming, i should do something special in the studio....a new piece of some sort...then it struck me a new gee's bend piece would be not only a creative challenge but so...
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she's here! a new piece
finally i can formerly introduce the new gee's bend piece that you've been hearing about....i think this must be one of my favorite pieces, for there is nothing more striking than red and white...
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O Holy Night
my hopes for you and your families are that each of you feel the joy in your hearts this season...that a child shares a moment that was long put away in your own heart, that you are surrounded by...
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but i don't want to....
as 2012 approached us, i just didn't want to change to a new year....i pretty much was trying to stick my feet in the sand and resist the pull of another year. i don't recall doing this in the past, i...
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my valentines gift to you...
i just love valentines....i'm truly an old fashioned type of girl....love the candy, flowers and valentines....the tradition of sending a valentine to those you love i find so sweet...celebrate...
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the luck of the ole' irish....
(this is my dad at one of his favorite places to play golf, st. andrews golf course in scotland, of course, on his way to ireland!), one good looking irishmen...and as the story goes....but first,...
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studio shuffle....
sometimes you just wonder, you really wonder, what the universe has in store for you... for after all, my life in or out of the studio has been a constant shuffle... it seems to me that the universe...
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a day with God...
it was just about a year ago when eli, then 11, said that he wanted to get baptised and confirmed at the boone united methodist church, for classes were just about to start...hubby and i looked at each...
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almost sold out....
if you are signed up for my email updates then you already know that the baseball dart board is celebrating the season with a $25.00 discount....for any of you who do not get my updates with special...
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my child will need therapy...
a day in the life, to put it simply...but first, some proper background music from the movie, "little miss sunshine"...last week was the 'next to the last week' of school for eli....i myself begin to...
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a new design...come with me to the fair...
one of the best times it seems for me to start thinking of new designs is often while i'm painting another design....i start lulling around in my mind the colors that i'm using, or colors that i...
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new board update....
just wanted to give you an update of the new piece i introduced....i had an idea that this piece would go very quickly because of the bold graphic design...there are only 10 still available before i...
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blogging.....again....
finally....and i say finally for the reason that i haven't been able to blog 'comfortably' for some time. apparently the issue seems to be that my computer is very very 'old', and has not been able to...
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in the process...
every year when i see my mom it seems she always say's, 'you should make a Christmas board', and every year i ponder and ponder... but i had never come across an antique piece, until now...as you know...
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"linda quilts"....
i have this friend in texas.....i met her in our quilting group....and her name is linda.....over the many many years we quilted together i noticed something that i was reminded of when i saw this...
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happy birthday, happy birthday and more happy birthdays...
september is the month of birthdays in my family, a delicious celebration just about every week is scattered throughout the month..a mountain full of cakes and cupcakes and a heart full of love...happy...
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take me to the circus....
i have begun a new series that is very sentimental to me... "take me to the circus"when i was a very little girl living in iowa my parents gathered all of us little girls into our car and took us to...
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20 year celebration
she's been doing it for 20 years?it is hard to believe that in just a couple of months i will have been creating game boards for 20 years. i picked up my first piece of wood and began creating game...
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i have changed things up a bit....instead of blogging i have turned to using a newsletter style that i send out with any news or photos of new limited edition game boards... please just drop me a note...
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The Reader.... I love this board....I loved it the first time that I saw this pattern that was well over 100 years old....it reminded me of a library, stacked with books and books and even more...
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summer....the perfect time to enjoy lazy days and late nights.... Summer is one of my favorite seasons....no schedule, little order, cookouts and lightning bugs in the deep woods, friends visiting and...
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in the Appalachians we get ready for the holidays in a big way.... There's much to do before the holidays even begin in the mountains - for we like to be prepared for the upcoming winter so that...
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