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this was us last year at this time. the weather had finally broken, and April was so lovely, nothing like today. cold, rainy, making spring break unbearable. welcome back to the blog, or should i say, i will welcome myself back. people always want to know "why do you blog?", for me it's "why did i ever stop?" i use this blog to motivate myself to finish what i start, keep my far away family

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ahh the first day of school has arrived! i honestly didn't think that we would be able to get ourselves out of bed in time to get there, but as soon as the alarm went off, we all jumped up, excited to start the school year. well, not exactly "jumped up" there was some whining on my part, and "just 5 more minutes", but we made it in plenty of time.Chloe was anxious to leave the house, she really

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Allright, so I'm totally stealing this from my sister's blog, but I'm sure I'm a bigger fan of "Tranji" than she is. It's my mom! I guess she and my sister ran into Benji and Tranvis while in L.A. My mom went to be on the Price is Right, but didn't get called to be on stage, bummer, but they were in the third row, so I'm sure they got a good look at Bob Barker's corpse. I mean really, how

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I had to get this t-shirt via Cupcake Royale. I'm a big fan of the cupcake, or any cake in gerneral. They are my weekness. Like Shawn has icecream and cereal, and the girls have candy from the five and dime, I've never met a piece of cake or cupcake that I didn't like. I've gotten to the point where one piece in never enough, so having a cake around is dangerous. We don't have a "cupcake"

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Here some pictures of our trip to the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. Notice the Heywood Wakefield furnishings.This is the livingroom of the Dymaxion House, a completly round house made out of alluminum and suspended by cables. Here is what the roof looks like, kind of a big umbrella. The square footage is actually bigger than our ranch house, but doesn't feel as spacious. I didn't

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Here is the cute tampon doll I got at the Detroit Craft Fair courtesy of My Paper Crane. Heidi wasn't actually there, someone else was selling the dolls as well as a bunch of other artists stuff. I was so excited when I saw them. I've always wanted something of MPC, but never took the time to order. Now that I see how well they are made and how cute they are in person, I'm going to have to

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See what you can get when you go to the Ypsilanti Tuesday Farmer's Market at the Key Bank parking lot!Green beans, little sweet peppers, corn, collards, cucumbers, summer apples, blueberries, and a veggie pasty all that for about $12. it's a bargin. I love that it just keeps getting better too as the summer goes on. It's been quite a lazy week and start to this day. We've finally been able to

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What does a mayor do? It's something that I've been thinking and discussing with friends lately. If you haven't heard (big national news) Ypsilanti is in the midst of a heated Mayoral Election. I've never really been educated on local politics, and I guess as I grow older, I find myself becoming more and more interested in what is going on in the community. I have children in the public

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I got my fabric fromKitty CraftIt was the first time I had every ordered anything from her, and I absolutly love the fabric. It's like a dream come true to be able to order Japanese prints and have them arrive only a few weeks later. Now to figure out what I want to do with them all. I think I'll just stare at them for awhile. I had some really great finds at the thrift shop this week. The

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I noticed today that I have alot of bevereges in my fridge. It's been sooo hot lately that I can't help myself. I feel like I want to just drink nice cool drinks all day long. I don't drink soda, but recently I've been craving cherry coke, real cherry coke like from a soda fountain at the pool hall. I haven't even had any coffee in over 2 weeks! that's really really odd for me, it's just

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I knew there was a reason why I saved all that leftover easter candy. The girls and thier friends made summer candy houses. I made up a batch of icing for the glue and let them go at it with any and all stale cookies and candies I could dig up. The results were very cute.

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Today is quite gloomy and rainy. i feel sorry for the girls. they are supposed to go to a water park today with their camp, it's like the big ta-doo at camp week, so i'm hoping that they will postpone it til tomorrow. i like the rain. it feels good to not have to water the plants. i'm listening to the Craftsanity interview with Heidi from My Paper Crane I've been reading Heidi's blog for

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Today we headed on over to the Shadow Art Fair at the Corner Brewery in Ypsilanti. It was really great to see how many people came out. We were there for atleast a couple hours with an unending crowd rolling in and out. There were 30 vendors in all, and I thought all the stuff was great. I had no idea there were so many great local artists. We got the girls t-shirts from Feather Weight

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I've found the best way to locate local yard/estate sales is through www.mlive.com go to the classified section, and from there you can choose what area newspapers you would like to search from.What is really cool, you can choose which sales you want to save, then print them all out in the end. I then go to mapquest and get the directions. It makes my yard sale'n so much easier. Hey locals!

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Here's a peek at my almost finished craft room. it's in the basement, so we don't really have any natural light. that kind of bums me out, so i need to find a solution. I organized my fabric in two layers, most of the solids are behind the prints. Then I put all my little scraps in the polka-dot boxes. I still have to go through all my notions, buttions, ribbons, and knitting stuff. I also

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I finished the free amigurumi patten from Roxycraft. I had to tweek her a little bit since i'm new at following patterns. I really love to crochet now, lots more than knitting! I think because it's so fast, and i'm such a instant gratification type personality. I'm going to try and make up some patterns of my own today. Craftroom update.......ummm yeah,

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the latest news around here is the newest addition to our animal kingdom. Chloe saved her pennies and finally got a cornsnake. as much as i wanted to veto the whole idea, i now am totally in love with the little guy.We also adopted 2 little hamsters. I know, a snake and 2 hamsters don't really go together, throw in the 3 cats and dog and we have a whole food chain. Anyway, they are a little

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We had an amazing playdate yesterday with a newly made friend for both me and the girls. They had the most beautiful historic house, I fell in love as soon as I walked into the built in porch. The wicker furniture was covered in patchy quilt cushions, and there were tons of cute little things everywhere. I think I've met my thrifty match. She also had a basement full of crafty goodness. She

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We went to our next door neighborhood yard sales today. i scored right off the top with 2 bags of hand dyed wool yarn for $5Next, Shawn bought a whole box of i drawing materials, including ink, pens, and paper for $5. It was really really really hot, so the girls were on super whining mode, not to mention that they wanted every piece of wierd crap they saw. i need to train their yard sale eyes

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Mom does it again, this time with some of her childhood National Handcraft "fad-of-the-month" club kits. I love that my Grandmother never threw anything away.the letter is from 1959I plan on making these today with the girls. There is also an apron doll and a magnetic snap purse.

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My mom has been finding some great material while cleaning out my grandma's house. here is a selection of my favorites. I especially love the feedsack.This is some christmas material that I got at the neighborhood yard sales last week. it was my only great find.you win some you lose some.

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Today was the last day of school. Here they were on the first dayTonight is the school carnival. I'm painting faces, nice to know that art degree is getting put to good use.

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first of all, my computer has been in the basement for the whole entire winter, where it is not too warm or cozy, so that is my first excuse.....second, i was working, and had not too many things to post in the way of craftyness. who wants to hear about my 7 months of customer service work?? hmmmm, didn't think so. so i'll kind of start a fresh new blog, we've started the summer with a little

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100_1637 Originally uploaded by sourgrass.Halloween was great. The girls were zombies and some kind of corpse bridey thingy. It was awesome since Shawn had built this coffin for the front yard and we took pictures of the girls coming out of it. Lily can really get into the whole Hallowen thing. She takes it quite seriously. Shawn was a...hmmm what was he. I guess a hillbilly of sorts, he

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100_1547 Originally uploaded by sourgrass.geez, what a crap i've been. this working thing is really really hard! just kidding, i love being back to work, i even love getting up at the crack of dawn, or in my case WAY before the crack. I've adjusted amazingly well for someone who usually gets away with sleeping in like a teenager. the job is good, the girls are loving school, and shawn gets

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i forgot to add in reference to yesterday's post regarding the braise, lee and i have gotten int o the habit of saying "hmmm what would Anthony do" or "don't you think Anthony would love this?" Anthony being Anthony Bourdain. Without cable i'm unable to see his new show, so my friend is DVR'n it for me. I'm just starting his "Cook's Tour" book along with "In the Devil's Garden" makes for a nice

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100_1521 Originally uploaded by sourgrass.oh it was soooo good. once again lee worked her magic in my kitchen, i think i mostly just stood and asked questions. we had shortribs braised in ale, golden and red beets with sweet butter and creamed potatoes with 1/2 and 1/2. the ribs were like butter thanks to sparrow's grass fed meats. we rolled ourselves out to the fire after dinner for wine

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100_1493 Originally uploaded by sourgrass.my craft room is a total crap room right now. i have been in the basement for some time now trying to figure out where i want to put stuff, and yet i'm just not motivated to do it! ug. i got a great new shelf from my friend carol, and i'm slowly taking over shawn's music space. he needs his drums out, yet i can't seem to give up any space. the girls

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100_1492 Originally uploaded by sourgrass.fresh picked from the garden. peppers, chilis, yellow and red cherry tomatoes a plenty. despite the heat, i have had good luck with my full of weeds garden. BUT, today it all ends. not the garden, but the heat. INSIDE that is. at this very moment, Leon is installing our new central air!!! it's serious hot here, and we have to live in our basement

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Mia Originally uploaded by sourgrass.Here is my entry for the Month of Softies. i've never made a sock monkey before, but it was pretty easy. i gave her to my friend's little girl for her birthday. I've been out of crafty commission for awhile now since it's hotter than hell in my house. 90 degrees it was today INSIDE! needless to say, i'm not a nice person when it is this hot. we ended up

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100_1440 Originally uploaded by sourgrass.you can tell it's really summer at our house now. first it's about 90 degrees all day inside, and second, we are never around. just when i think that i haven't scheduled enough for us to do all summer, i realize that we have TOO MUCH to do. and now it's allmost over. the girls and i just back from my folks place out in the boonies. it was great fun

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handmade chloe Originally uploaded by sourgrass.chloe made her teacher a necklace out of various beads i had around. we had to string it about 3 or 4 times because she kept dropping the beads. she gets frustrated easily, hmmm don't know where she gets that from. her teacher was so amazing. she said that chloe had really matured over the past semester and is totally ready for 1st grade. i

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lily's purse Originally uploaded by sourgrass.this is the purse that i made for lily to give to her teacher. i made up the pattern, and it's kind of wonky in some parts, but overall it should make a good book bag. lily's teacher was great and deserves a million dollars inside the bag, she really had a fantastic year.

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yard sale finds Originally uploaded by sourgrass.I wanted to go to this neighborhood yard sale up the street today, but discovered that i only had about $3 in change to spend. i thought it would be fun to turn it into a challenge so that i didn't get all mad if i found a BUNCH of stuff. so i set some rules for myself: i could only buy stuff that i didn't allready have, i could only spend a

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new platter Originally uploaded by sourgrass.The weekend neighborhood yard sales were great! we got out nice and early as usual with two wagons ready to fill. it's so nice now that the girls are old enough to walk and not get so cranky. they made it about a block or two before they were in the wagon as well. i can't blame them, it was a HOT day. I scored some craft supplies, books, wooden

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100_1193 Originally uploaded by sourgrass.I spent this morning sewing 3 new skirts for the girls. they refuse to wear anything really other than skirts and i'm running out. I like this pink stripped one the best especially since i sewed a zipper in the back instead of an elastic waist like the others. got to get my booty outside before it rains!

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100_1189 Originally uploaded by sourgrass.Here are my thrift scores for today:a pair of rocketdog shoes for $2a bag of mohair yarn for $2a cool knitting pattern $2.25a picture frame 50 cents5 cones of cotton yarn $5a skirt pattern 10 cents and an old piece of feedsack cloth 50 centsI was really happy with my finds.this weekend is our neighborhood yard sale. It's my favorite so hopefully there

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Ice Crystal Caves Originally uploaded by sourgrass.This is the baby squirrel Shawn and the girls found on a bikeride. It was so so sweet. We named it Rocky, but Chloe decided it should be called Ice Crystal Caves. She is well known for her extra long names. Like her hippo is named Marching Band Parade. We found a rescue for the little baby where it will live with an adopted squirell family. It

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Turning japanese Originally uploaded by sourgrass.I got my package from YesAsia yesterday. I was too tired last night to start any projects, so I just marked pages and kicked myself for not learning Japanese from all those Japanese exchange students we had living with us growing up! I took them with me today while I subed at the girl's school. I was in the Jr. High class, they are an easy

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100_0969 Originally uploaded by sourgrass.allright, just one more post today and then i really think i should get some work done. For those who have not seen a recent picture of the girls, here one is. they were on thier way to a tea party.

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100_1169 Originally uploaded by sourgrass.I'm really liking this posting pictures stuff! Now I'll have to backtrack on some of my projects and get them posted as well. Here is my lettuce. it popped up overnight! i'll be posting some craft pictures soon.

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100_1036 Originally uploaded by sourgrass.me sorting a bunch of wool covered in sheep poop. I was really excited when I got the wool from one of the teachers at school. little did I realize what a job washing wool is. I haven't even made a dent in all of it yet, but I'm looking forward to carding it then hopefully spinning some.

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I think it's time that I really really try to get this thing going. After failed attempts many times to start a blog, i think I have found my inspiration. Not only have I found an abundant amount of blogs that i love out there in blogland, but i actually have things to say! amazing. i also have friends who know how much i despise the phone and my bad emailing habbits. perhpaps this will keep

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