Photo Friday – One Shape
This week’s task was to photograph one shape. I fudged the assignment a bit because it should have been literally one shape, not a repetition of the same kind of shape, but one heart wouldn’t have done very much for me.
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Design Wall Tuesday – Ravaging Rio Meets the Ghost
I have two more pages to share from “Ravaging Rio and the Ghost in the Library.” In these pages, Rio meets the ghost and hears his story.
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Photo Friday – Tack Sharp
I struggled with this week’s assignment for my photo challenge class because I kept forgetting to change the settings on my camera. The assignment was to get a sharply focused photo, one that was “tack sharp,” which is hard to do if you have the wrong ISO. So, not my …
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Design Wall Tuesday – Ravaging Rio
I have spent the last few days making grandfather clocks. I realized as I put on the facing for one of the “Ravaging Rio” pages that I had trimmed it wrong, leaving me a little short on floor and baseboard on one page. I needed to come up with something …
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Photo Friday – Windows
The challenge for this past week in my Ricky Tims’ 2016 Photo Challenge class was “windows.” A few minutes after I finished reading the lesson, I hopped up to walk down the hall, walked past my laundry room, stopped, backed up, and noticed this window. (The caption is exactly what …
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Design Wall Tuesday
Monday was another busy day around here so Design Wall Monday is happening on Tuesday again. Today, two more pages from “Ravaging Rio.”
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Photo Friday
Week 2’s Photo Challenge was “Line.” I shot some pictures in Harvard Square until my fingers stopped working from the cold and settled on this image as my submission for the week:
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Design Wall Monday – on Tuesday
What I have been working on lately could qualify for Throwback Thursday. I started working on these in 2012 and then put them away from a while. I just picked them back up and got the facing done on 9 quilts over the weekend. Many years ago, my sister wrote …
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Photo Friday – Selective Focus
In the last incarnation of my blog, I had a feature called “Photo Friday.” Photography is another love of mine. I’m not an amazing photographer, but it’s been something that I have enjoyed for as long as I can remember. The last photography class that I took, however, was in …
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Looking Like Christmas – Another Tablecloth Hack
Apparently, cutting up old tablecloths is a habit of mine. One of my grandmothers passed away last November. For Christmas last year, I took her old Christmas tablecloth . . . . . . which was worn and holey, and cut out the poinsettias and holly leaves to applique onto …
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