Simplifying
I started to do a post about how I was going to delete this blog, about how it had been ten years and I was tired of thinking I have anything vital to add to the cacophony of online...
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I really wasn't trying to get everyone to tell me how fabulous I am and how I shouldn't quit blogging. In fact, that gets to part of the root of my problem right there: I've come to realize that...
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As Simple As Simple Can Be
I mean, really. No tricky nothing. No set-in sleeves, no facings, no measuring. No nothing. The challenge for me was to see if I could create a simple, easy, comfortable garment that I love and love to...
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Progress Report
While this is a self-indulgent pat-on-the-back post, I also hope that it will inspire someone out there to tackle this, if This is something you've been contemplating.My simplification project has many...
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The Next Project
There are the sewing and making projects, of course; those are the best. But there are also the other ones, like the one I'm tackling today in which I'm trying to go through all our hand tools and sort...
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Home Project
Here's what I've just finished. I posted process photos on Facebook but wanted to show it here, too, just in case someone hasn't seen it and needs a little push (a wanted push, of course; not...
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This Week
I used to not show things that weren't Finished, but recently I've decided that nothing is ever finished, that things are always changing and that just because I've stopped working on something and...
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Going Back In
That's kind of how I think of this, as "going back in." Meaning going back into a project that I've already done and then adding to it or going further or whatever. This is what I want to do now: keep...
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A Really Big Difference, Indeed
It's taken a long, long time. Since 2011, actually. Here's what the sewing room, which was once a dining room and is now a room where we can dance, or I can sit and stitch, or I can set up the ironing...
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Studio/Office/Laundry Room
If I'm being all fancy, it's the studio. If I'm serious, it's the office, because it's where I work and where The EGE has his laptop. If I'm just regular, it's the laundry room because that's what it...
View ArticleLiving A Simpler Life
I was going to title this "Living The Simple Life," but I'm not there yet. Almost, but there's still more to explore, and that's a good thing: I'm having a lot of fun at this. And it's not a...
View ArticleSimple Pleasures
I've written kind of a lot about what I've given up, quit doing, don't do, avoid. I thought it might be useful to write, instead, about what I've found: things to try, things to make time for, things...
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A Bunch of Recent Projects & One I'm Avoiding
This morning I finally finished my first major satin stitch project, so I've got that to show (because I'm pretty pleased with it and with my ability to let go of Having to Have It Perfect) and then...
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Making. And Making & Making & Making. . . .
There are other things I "should" be doing, like being more helpful in The Painting of The Porch, which currently looks like this: The Ever-Gorgeous Earl, Man of My Dreams, has done most of the spindle...
View ArticleHey, Out There!
Just a quick note to say "hi" and that I'm trying to post over on Facebook at least a couple times a week. I'm having a great time making stuff and experimenting with pain-in-the-butt projects, but I'm...
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