Category: crafts
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Happy Yule: A Recipe for Happiness
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ― Mahatma Gandhi Today is the Winter Solstice, and last night we experienced the New Moon. An extra dark and long night paved over us, so now we must make way for the return of the sun and brighter…
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Daily Art Musings: A First Time for Starting Over; The Necessary Evil of Frogging
“You can’t be afraid to burn everything down and start from scratch. Because the only direction you will go from there, is up. New opportunities will have no choice but to eventually open up for you.” ― Robin S. Baker I was once in love with a very expensive yarn, heathered in shades of olive, moss,…
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Daily Art Musings: Admiring Folk Art
“He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina It occurred to me just how much American culture has undergone a sort of “grayification,” “squarification,” and “boxification,” which has inevitably led to a…
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Yarn Weights for Regular People
“There’s great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you’re taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you’re letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.” — Chellie Pingree The World of Yarn When…
The Alchemist Diaries 