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2012 January
A Quick Winter Jumper
Posted by Claire on Jan 31 2012
We celebrated the boys’ birthday last weekend (and no, you won’t be seeing picture after picture of an immaculately planned, exquisitely executed party complete with matching themed everything on this blog. I make a homemade chocolate cake. I iced it. It sort of looked like a lego block. Sort of. Regardless, the children ate it/smeared […]
A Handpainted Monogram Tutorial
Posted by Claire on Jan 11 2012
I painted our entrance hall over the Christmas holidays. Everyone seems amazed that I tackled it but given the immensely large projects we’ve tackled holidays past (new heated ceramic tile floor in the kitchen, gutting the bathroom, installing a main floor laundry) a little paint on a teeny-weeny kinda room is a piece of cake. […]
David’s Guitar Quilts Pieced
Posted by Claire on Jan 03 2012
It’s a Festivus Miracle. David’s pair of guitar quilts, which I started back in *mumble, mumble, shuffles feet* February of last year are finally pieced. I’ve been working on it sporadically, piecing the elements but never really getting the push to get it all together. Finally, between Christmas and New Year’s I decided enough was […]