Category Archives: Do the Work

Home on a Monday, Productive Sunday

Yesterday I needed to step away from my NaNoWriMo story for a little so I did. Among the things I did was straighten out a little mess that happened during the holidays and make some progress on a long-waiting quilt … Continue reading →

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what did you do today MB?

I’m sorting out mid-holiday season spillage of gazillion small pieces of fabric. Hey it’s not exactly mindless and one might say it’s productive even. Well it’s something. Let’s just say I’m reconnecting with the project and call it good. And, … Continue reading →

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Things You Look Up That Make You Go Hmmm…

Researching heraldry and a few other symbols and keep running into “mullet” which is described usually as a pierced star. The following from Wikipedia: In heraldry, the term star may refer to any star-shaped charge with any number of rays, … Continue reading →

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History repeating itself

We stand the simple fools we watch them break it down •
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Happy Birthday J.R.R. Tolkien

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King. Continue reading →

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