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Purple Heart - A Treasury at Etsy

January 17, 2011 • art • blogging • children • country life • faith • family • flowers • friends • friendship • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • personal • photography • relationships • shopping • thoughts • travel • Valentine • Valentine's Day • women

A great way to help bring attention to a favorite Etsy shop or item is to create your own Treasury list ...

Titles elude me at this moment

January 12, 2011 • art • Christmas • country life • country living • culture • dogs • faith • family • farm • farm life • fingerless gloves • free knitting patterns • friends • friendship • hat patterns • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • New York • personal • pets • photography • Photos • relationships • scarf patterns • shopping • snow • socks • spirituality • style • thoughts • travel • vintage • yarn

Take a minute, if you are a knitter, and think about how many knitters there are around the world and then multiply that by some number that seems reasonable to predict how many hand knit gifts will be made this year ...

The Advent of Santa: Days 7 through 15

December 15, 2010 • art • children • Christmas • country life • country living • culture • faith • family • Holidays • home • humor • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • personal • photography • Photos • relationships • Santa Claus • September 11 • shopping • Upstate New York • women

My Advent of Santa continues, though I slipped up for several days in a row. I do that with advent calenders every time I attempt to follow them. I start out with the most sincere intentions that this will be the year when I finally follow the advent every single day. Inevitably I reach some critical point in the holiday season when the advent calendar is missed first one day, then another, and then several in a row as I focus my attention on completing various Christmas projects. Without further explanation, I offer you the following assortment of Santas, nine...

The Bus Stops Here

December 14, 2010 • art • baby • Christmas • country life • country living • faith • family • food • friends • gifts • Holidays • home • inspiration • Life • love • personal • pets • photography • relationships • Santa Claus • shopping • thoughts • travel • women

I was up very late this evening and into the wee hour (1:00 is just one wee hour and I went to bed right after this post which I did at 1:10 a.m. or so, so yes, singular "wee" hour) of the morning. There is a book project I am working on and there was a long, long wait while files uploaded and re-uploaded. While I waited I dreamed I was on a shopping trip in the city on a bus. In my dream I got off at each bus stop and shopped at the store right in front of...

A wee bit o' magic

December 9, 2010 • art • Christmas • family • friends • gifts • home • inspiration • Life • personal • pets • photography • Photos • Santa Claus • shopping • thoughts • women

A Treasury I created this morning while window shopping on Etsy.