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Louis L'Amour

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Apparently I subconsciously chose colours to coordinate with this little antique vase I picked up a few weeks ago. Also, there is a stone inside this temari, but I cannot for the life of me f...


Similar to ones I’ve done in the past, this one incorporates weaving into the pattern rather than simply layering. White base with iridescent metallic guidelines and softly iridescent bea...


I made this one for someone on here. She was looking for beachy colours and maybe a shell charm/ornament with a tassel. I couldn’t find an actual shell that fit the temari, but I did have this ...


September 12, 2020

Temari in 1000 words

I completed 4 of the large ones with the tassels last week (2 are already put away). This week I’ve done the 3 smaller ones. They are Emperor pattern. The purple and blue one is my favourite. I...


August 11, 2020

Create in 1000 words

It gets harder and harder to find pictures of things I’ve made that I haven’t shown you guys at some point in the past. I know I haven’t posted this one, because the receiver of this gift (wayyy...


August 11, 2020

Waves in 1000 words

Another dreaming of Iceland pic. This one from 2018.


August 10, 2020

Sunny in 1000 words


August 09, 2020

Sweet in 1000 words

Ooooh how I miss travel. My heart yearns when I start looking through pictures. I realize now that earlier this year when I couldn’t find anyone to go on even a weekend trip, that the Universe wa...


August 08, 2020

My happy place in 1000 words

On the couch, under a pile of sleeping dogs.


August 07, 2020

Art or craft in 1000 words

So I’ve been working on temari for awhile now. And even though I don’t make as many as I did when I was off on stay-at-home orders, I still enjoy trying new things with them. I also made and sen...


August 05, 2020

Flora in 1000 words

Well… she is named Violet.


August 03, 2020

Kindness in 1000 words

I don’t have a lot that I would consider fitting of this category, so instead you get a photo of flowers. One day I’d like to try felting this picture.


August 02, 2020

Photos in 1000 words

I’ve been totally slacking on writing. I have 9 whole entries this year, a year when I should have been documenting all sorts of things to share with my future grandkids. But do I feel like writi...


December 11, 2019

DePhoMo ~ Dec 11 ~ Classic in 1000 words

Maybe this would be more off prompt… but it is classic Violet. J picks the smaller furniture up when he vacuums and she’s always finding the hidey hole in the melee.


December 09, 2019

DePhoMo ~ Dec 9 ~ Charity in 1000 words

From the Canadian Cancer Society Evening at Hogwarts


Mr. Serious, on the road.


When I was about 3 my dad’s family asked everyone to take family photos so that they could send them along to the cousins they had in Sweden. We now stay connected with some of those cousins t...


December 06, 2019

DePhoMo ~ Dec 6 ~ Nap Time in 1000 words


I had to go way, wayyyyy back into my photo archives for this one. So technically it is a picture of my work space, but it doesn’t look like this now. That lamp is gone, there’s a different fir...


December 03, 2019

DePhoMo ~ Dec 4 ~ Snow in 1000 words


December 03, 2019

DePhoMo ~ Dec 3 ~ Silly in 1000 words

Violet


I have A LOT of favourite photos. The one I share most often is a picture of my brother and my dad sharing a look over my brother’s firstborn only a couple of hours after he was born. Today I d...


There are so many things I’m proud of. I just picked a recent picture of a Christmas cactus that I have been able to (A) keep alive, and (B) it blooms!


From Mexico in April.


December 22, 2018

DePhoMo ~ Dec 23 ~ Food in 1000 words

Part of this summer’s haul from the garden.