Our egg factories continue to receive far too much attention and far too many luxuries. Especially considering they haven’t produced a single egg yet. Over the weekend we built a fence to surround the Chicken Taj Mahal. The fence isn’t designed …
Read MoreMonth: June 2008
Housekeeping
A few months ago I moved some things — including the files for this blog — around on the servers. It all seemed to go just fine — until… I upgraded the wordpress installs. All the older image links broke. Luckily I figured out just how …
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Last week in the garden we had: Daisies everywhere. The pasture is covered with them. On the west side of the house we have the slender deutzia in bloom at the back of the herb bed. And sea pinks surrounding the inceeasingly tall …
Read MorePlaying with (paper) Dolls
This little harlequin dancer is sitting on my worktable waiting for a face. That’s always the hard part. I started with the doll parts and some fancy red and gold paper that became her tights. Then she got a skirt. I started …
Read MoreWords Found Today
In the corner of the page containing a pattern for cutting out a jointed paper doll. 1. Enlarge or reduce template to desired size. 2. Cut out. 3. Embellish and attach pieces together. I think these may be the lost directions for life.
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