I’m a bit late for Yule/Solstice but Happy Midwinter festival of your personal flavor. My mom is basically my inspiration for all my crafting. I grew up with my mom sewing, knitting, embroidering, crocheting. So I learned to sew and knit from her, embroidery I am self taught (from a book my mother gave me [...]

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Delicious lemony pound cake (I glaze it with an easy lemon glaze), the key is the ingredients being room temp (or so) including the eggs and butter. This is a fantastic afternoon tea and cake snack. It supposedly keeps well but it never lasts more than 24 hours at my house. Ingredients: 1 cup butter [...]

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I have made croissants a few times and I used a recipe found online and tweaked it slightly, recipe found here. This is fairly labor intensive, tho few ingredients are needed. I always let the dough rise over night before making the croissants (since then we can have them fresh for breakfast, altho you do [...]

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I copied this (without pictures) from this instructibles tutorial for mostly my own easy to read use. The link above has handy pictures too First you will need to make a couple measurements to calculate the amount of fabric you need. Make sure you write these down as you will also need them when we [...]

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A fantastic collection featuring my plurky buds with items inspired by the 4 elements #widgetcont p{ padding:0; margin:0; } .title_brown, .title_brown a, .title_brown a:link, .title_brown a:active, .title_brown a:visited, .title_brown a:hover { color:#dfa754; font-weight:bold; } .title_charc, .title_charc a, .title_charc a:link, .title_charc a:active, .title_charc a:visited, .title_charc a:hover { color:#333333; font-weight:bold; } The Elements Curated By: 28SidesDesigns ArtFire.com [...]

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So I’ve decided to get a head start on my Christmas gifts this year and have already finished one! I like to make my gifts instead of buying for two reasons: one, money is tight and we have 9 nieces and nephews so by making the gifts we can give nicer items that are less [...]

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So I saw Red Riding Hood this past weekend. Overall I would call it enjoyable and if you can see it cheap or for free, I would do it. The story itself is good, if a bit cliche. It’s a re-imagining of Grimm’s Little Red Riding Hood. Not terribly original, the wolf is actually a [...]

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I made this collection up for my friend Deronda of Deronda Designs of jewelry made by others featuring her amazing lampword beads #widgetcont p{ padding:0; margin:0; } .title_brown, .title_brown a, .title_brown a:link, .title_brown a:active, .title_brown a:visited, .title_brown a:hover { color:#dfa754; font-weight:bold; } .title_charc, .title_charc a, .title_charc a:link, .title_charc a:active, .title_charc a:visited, .title_charc a:hover { color:#333333; [...]

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#widgetcont p{ padding:0; margin:0; } .title_brown, .title_brown a, .title_brown a:link, .title_brown a:active, .title_brown a:visited, .title_brown a:hover { color:#dfa754; font-weight:bold; } .title_charc, .title_charc a, .title_charc a:link, .title_charc a:active, .title_charc a:visited, .title_charc a:hover { color:#333333; font-weight:bold; } Chained Together Curated By: 28SidesDesigns ArtFire.com Craft Supplies

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