Tag: encouragement
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In The Zone
Back in the month of May I was sweetly asked to work on a project for Grandma. Aunt Martha knows how I like to work with my hands, but more importantly I have a Cri-Cut cutter and sometimes a creative nature to work with my various art skills and tools. It was an honor and…
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Why Sewing Matters
Growing up in my family on both my parents sides were not just the agile crafters, but women who had essential skills to provide for their family. Crafting and making pretty or simply functional clothing is not an extravagance or something that is not useful. Sewing was a skill in the American past that was…
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Creatively Blocked?
Do you ever feel creatively blocked, musically, artistically in whatever medium you work in? Sometimes it’s ironic how I can feel the piano keys better than I can writing during the same day. Or I can write up a storm, but I just don’t have the want to hold a needle that day. I find…
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Vintage Birthday Card
These cards are all special to me. How I received most of these cards now decades later… are lost to the space in my brain. This is why getting a chance to look through them again is nice as an adult. My uncles gave this card to me and I don’t know what birthday it…
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American Letters
Do you still receive letters or cards in the mail? Letters seem to be a thing of the past. No one takes the pains to write anymore except to text or post emoji’s. Writing doesn’t carry the same fervency and excitement as it once did. Yet I still watch and observe my mother picking out…
Jewells of Thought 