joliefly13

this is totally random and last m inute, but anyone in the Livermore area want to join me and my girlfriend for a night of dancing in the tri-valley. . . it WILL be loads of fun!

I think I'm gonna make a peach pie. We've been gifted with an excess of yummy yummy yummy peaches this year. We don't have a tree of our own but my girlfriend is the regular urban forager. She's an insect trapper for the alameda county and she's always getting bags and bags of fruit from friendly home-owners who have just too much fruit from their...
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I realized the other day I've hardly been around here lately. Somehow a couple months went by and I hardly said "boo" to anyone. (Still stopped by now and then to look at a set. . . but there was never enough time to really enjoy said set. . . if ya know what I mean!

And then I realized that I really missed this...
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"There is no differentiation between art and life."

I watched Craft In America last night. Just the first episode. I'm gonna catch the other two tonight (yeah, for encore showings!) The above quote was said by Tom Joyce, a blacksmith who lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It resonates with me. . . I do believe that everyone's finest piece of art is...
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So, I realize I've been neglecting this part of the woods lately. . . I promise I've got excuses. . .

Okay, wait! I've been making stuff. . . that's my excuse!
And now I've gotta scram and come back with a more fulfilling blog tomorrow. . .

I am a PMSing nightmare today . . . I thought looking at naked chicks might make me feel better. . .



It does.

Yesterday I spent a few hours making wooden beads for my jewlery. I first started making my own wooden beads last summer when a friend of mine gave me a bunch of scrap wood left over from her dad's projects. It's...
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