My Blog
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November 2024 Sunset Photographs
Hi everyone! It’s been a while since I published a post featuring my photographs. For the most part, I’ve been having some issues with my photo editing software and some other issues with my camera. My camera is fine now, but I’m seriously looking into getting a different photo editing software. I’m really upset about this, but I know it’s time to work with a different software. Other than that, I’ve been taking photographs. Sadly, I haven’t been doing a good job posting my favorites online. This summer, I decided to focus on publishing more posts of my photograph. I want to start with some sunset photographs I took in…
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The Turquoise and Grey Log Cabin Quilt- Cutting the Strips and Beginning to Sew the Blocks
Hi everyone! It’s time to talk about sewing my turquoise and grey log cabin quilt! As of the publishing of this post, I have already finished the top of the quilt and is now waiting to be quilted. Yet, I haven’t talked about sewing it here on this blog. I decided to hold off talking about it until I finished the top. I didn’t know how long it would take to make the quilt, which is also why I decided to hold off talking about it. I already talked about making a log cabin quilt out of turquoise and grey fabric in a previous post. You can read it here.
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Tiffany & Co Gift Box Inspired Wall Art- Base Painting
Hi everyone! Today, I will be continuing my post series about how I made a Tiffany & Co gift box inspired wall art. I already talk about why I wanted to make this and my sketch in a previous post here. For this post, I wanted to focus on the base painting of the box. The painting wasn’t difficult, but I do have a few regrets about how I went about painting the canvas.
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Tiffany & Co Gift Box Inspired Wall Art- Sketching and Paint Choices
Hi everyone! For many years, I wanted to own canvases with illustrations of luxury fashion items. I own some from places like Hobby Lobby, but there were a few I liked yet never purchased and own. One of them is of a Tiffany & Co gift box. Recently, I decided to search for a canvas again. I didn’t anticipate purchasing one, but I did want to know how much they cost compared to what they cost a few years ago. After my research, I didn’t like the prices of the canvases nor did I like the designs or the size of the canvases. After dwelling on this, I decided to…
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Progress Update on My Winter Mountain Embroidery Kit
Hi everyone! In 2023, I decided to pick up embroidery again. I used to embroider in my teens and early twenties, but I stopped due to health concerns I had (They were unrelated to my hands, yet it impacted them) and to focus on other things. In 2023, I decided to pick up embroidery as a hobby again. Even though I really liked embroidery, it had been many years since I used it as a hobby. Because of this, I was unsure if I could remember all the embroidery stitches and create them as well as I used to. So, I decided to purchase embroidery kits off Amazon to help…
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Some Thoughts About JoAnn Stores Closing For Good
Hi everyone! I know it’s been a while since I published a post on this blog, but unfortunately I haven’t felt up to writing. I keep going back and forth about what to write and if I should talk about certain things online. Right now I feel like I have more things to talk about on this blog than on my other lifestyle focused blog. Since it’s been a while since I posted, I decided to start by talking about my thoughts about JoAnn stores closing for good.
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Some Thoughts on JoAnn Stores and Their Most Recent Bankruptcy Filing
Hi everyone! I don’t normally talk about stores or brands and their business dealings, but I feel like I need to talk about JoAnn’s most recent bankruptcy filing. In 2024, JoAnn filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. I used to mention the JoAnn store many times in my sewing posts, but I stopped because I started to not shop there for fabric or DIY supplies. There were several reasons for this, but one of them is because the closest store to where I live became to hard to me to travel to. Despite my slowing interest in shopping at JoAnn, I also didn’t like the fabric selection they had. The quality…
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How to Fix Loose Glitter on Christmas Decorations with With Nail Polish
Hi everyone! It’s the holiday season and you can see it everywhere, especially in decorations. If you are like me and love glitter on Christmas decorations, you probably know how hard it is to clean up loose glitter from those decorations. For many years, I experimented with different ways of making glitter say on something. Although my attempts have kept the glitter on the object, they seemed to dull the shine of the glitter. Last year, I decided to try something new and, much to my surprise, it worked! Since I liked how it worked so much, I decided to share it this holiday season!
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Sewing Ties to a Duvet Cover: Why It Didn’t Have Ties and How I Fixed It
Hi everyone! I decided to use a duvet instead of a comforter earlier this year. So far I like the duvet over a comforter. Not only can I change the thickness of the insert, I can use the same duvet cover for both inserts. A while ago, I found a duvet cover on Amazon. It is a buffalo plaid cotton duvet cover and it was on sale for a good price. I decided to buy it. When fall started, I decided to use my new plaid duvet cover. When I tried to put it on my duvet insert, I was shocked to find the cover didn’t have ties attached to…
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Viney Jones Community Library East Side and Other Exterior Photographs in Florence, Arizona
Hi everyone! Well, this is the last post in my series featuring the photographs I took of the Viney Jones Community Library in Florence, Arizona! In this post, the photographs will focus on the exterior of the building, but specifically on the East side of the building.
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