My Blog
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Desert Sunset Photographs January 2023- Part 2
Hi everyone! A few weeks ago, I published a post about sunset photographs I took in January 2023. I wanted to split the photographs into two different posts because the scenery is different depending on the the photograph. I had every intention of posting the photographs one week apart, but I decided to reexamine the photographs I wanted to post in the second post. All of the photographs I took in this post are of a different area of the desert. This area now has more people living nearby, which means I need to be even more careful about what I photographs and what I don’t. This area will change…
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Desert Sunset Photographs January 2023- Part 1
Hi everyone! It’s been a while since I posted photographs I took of the desert. The desert where I like to take photographs of have changed a lot over the years, which means that I don’t have a lot of places to take photographs of anymore. Despite the changing landscape, I did find some areas where I could take photographs of and not worry about bothering anyone living nearby. I decided to hold off posting the photographs until a few months after I took them. I made this decision because I wanted to take some time to edit the photographs as well as try to let some time pass between…
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Simplicity S8926 Sewing Pattern: Plans and Ideas
Hi everyone! Last year, I purchased a copy of Simplicity pattern S8926. At that time, I wanted to buy a pattern to make a sort-of almost look a like pajama set I saw on YouTube. The person I saw wearing the pajamas is from Japan and, knowing Japanese sizing, I will most defiantly not fit them. (Even though the pajamas are oversized and will probably fit me that way, I am still too tall to wear them!) Despite the size difference, I couldn’t stop thinking about the pajamas. They were so cute and practical! They would also be fun to wear during the Christmas season. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a…
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Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire Resketch
Hi everyone! Recently, I began to feel the need to practice my sketching and general art skills. For one of the first sketches I wanted to do, I decided to redraw a classic painting. After searching online, I found a portrait painting of Georgiana, The Duchess of Devonshire. Years ago, I sketched my own version of the painting for an art class. Sadly, I don’t have photographs of the art I did for the class to post online. I enjoyed recreating the painting, but there were things that got on my nerves about my interpretation. Since I’m trying to make myself become a better artist, I decided to revisit the painting…
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My New Knitted Dish Cloths and What I Think About them
Hi everyone! I have another finished knitting project to show and talk about! Last year, I decided to knit myself dishcloths. I knitted dish clothes before, but it’s been a while since I did. I knew I would be under a lot of stress in the later half of last year and earlier this year, so I wanted an easy to knit project that comes together fast and allows me to knit while doing something else, such as watch TV. I call myself a stress knitter (I knit to relieve my stress) so I knew knitting dishcloths would be the best project to make when I’m under stress. After using…
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My Finished Hot Water Bottle Cozy- Version 2
Hi everyone! After thinking about how I wanted the hot water bottle cozy to look, I decided to try making it again. This time, I wanted to make the cozy to look good as well as be the right size for the cozy. I still had yarn left from the first two attempts to make hot water bottle cozies, I didn’t need to buy more yarn. So, I began to make version 2.
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My Finished Hot Water Bottle Cozy- Version 1
Hi everyone! After the fiasco of using a knitting pattern to make a hot water bottle cozy, I decided to try to invent my own knitting pattern. I felt confident to make one free hand (Without planning out the pattern before I started to knit) so I took the yarn I used to make the original cozy and began to work on it again. This new version, which I call version 1, does fit, but there are things I wanted to change before I was finally satisfied with the way the pattern is. I changed everything I didn’t like for version 2, which ended up turning out so well, it…
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Failing to Knit a Hot Water Bottle Cozy (And My Plans to Fix It)
Hi everyone! Months ago, I decided to knit myself new clothes, accessories, and home decor items that I want to use. I already owned items made with knitted fabric, but they are either white or a pale color and not washable. I had serious concerns about them getting dirty, so I decided to knit myself some new items using machine washable yarn and use them instead. One of the first items I wanted to make was a hot water bottle cozy. I found a pattern online for a cozy I liked and began to knit it. From the first time I read the pattern, I had my doubts about how…
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Starlit Road Pillow- The Pattern and Fabric Choices
Some time ago, I stumbled across quilt patterns available for purchase on Etsy. At the time, I couldn’t find a good quilt pattern that made sense to me. Since the patterns I used were widely available in quilting magazines, I decided to buy a few of the sewing patterns and try them. One of the shops I tried is Maple Cottage Designs. They have become of my favorite Etsy pattern shops because of their easy to follow patterns and easy to understand wording. I loved their patterns so much, I decided to buy a few more patterns from them and make the quilts once I had enough time. Unfortunately, I…
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August 2022 Sunset Photographs
Hi everyone! Earlier this year, I mentioned that the natural desert I love to take photographs is changing. At the time I wrote that post, I believed the desert would change too much for me to photograph it. A few months later, things have changed, but not enough for me to not photograph the desert. I did need to change my camera angles, but I could still photograph the desert! In August, I went to my favorite photographs spots to take a few photographs of the desert and the summer sunset. On the day I took the photographs, the sunset was not as nice as others I photographed in the…
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