Back From the Midwest

So I am back!! It was a great weekend -- well -- except for the continual coughing on my part. Luckily for me, both my roommate and my students were very forgiving of the occassional hacking fest. The good news is that my voice did hold out for the whole event. The bad news is I STILL have the cough, so I am going to the doctor a bit later today. If...

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Off to SMW

So tomorrow I am off to Stitches Midwest. This will be my first full teaching schedule although I anticipate it will be easier than doing the vendor/teacher thing! Unfortunately I have been fighting some sort of upper respitory thing and I worry about loosing my voice. I'll give an update when I return!...

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I Love Gifts!!!

And this is what I got from my secret pal (probably a couple of days ago, but I sometime forget to pick up my mail from the mail box). It may not look like much, but it is over a 100 yds of the most incredible softness. I LOVE Habu's stuff, which is where this comes from. My secret pal actually gets to visit their studio, I have only seen their...

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Package Departing

Tomorrow, my first secret pal package is going to be departing to it's destination. I am excited about this because I always like the challenge of finding the perfect gift for someone. And it is kinda like that, but even harder since this is not someone that I actually know other than what I have read about in her blog. So let's hope that she likes it!...

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Secret Pals

So Secret Pal 2 assignments were made last week and my Secret Pal is so much better about posting in her blog than I am! Thank heaven, it has given me some great ideas about what to send her! Hopefully she will like what she gets. She is a bit unorthodox, so this could go either very well or very poorly, but she seems to be a good spirit, so I am hoping for the best. I have been assigned to someone is isn't great about keeping herself a secret,...

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