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    Shakespeare paper beads

    February 20, 2010 - By 

    Since I had The Complete Works of Shakespeare text block left over from my book purse, I figured I better do something with some of those pages.

    I’m not as happy with the look of these as some of my previous paper beads. I think having just text with no color variation is kind of boring. I’ll likely be going back to magazine pages the next time.

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    Silk tie bucket purse

    February 11, 2010 - By 

    I checked out this book from the library last week and knew I had to make a tie bag.

    I had these ties stashed away knowing someday I’d use them.

    It took me a couple of hours to put together. I broke a needle on my machine as well in the process. First time I’ve ever done that!

    I learned that I had to manually “walk” the stitching forward by turning it by hand through the thick areas. Such technically accurate terms huh?! I am a trial and error girl. I don’t follow directions well. This may be an issue in my quest to learn to knit…

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    Wine Journal

    February 2, 2010 - By 

    As soon as I finished Wine 2.0 I just knew it wasn’t going to work for me. We’ve used it a bit anyway since I’d put so much time and effort into the piece.

    I’m sure this one is going to work really well for our journal.
    It is an old 3-ring binder cookbook with a dozen dividers so we can arrange and rearrange our labels and notes as much as we want.
    We even have a “black listed” section for truly awful wines. Ones that under no circumstance do we ever want to have again.