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"...no one likes white backgrounds" when it comes to vintage sheets. i think i may have found a listing on etsy, that proves this theory wrong: low volume vintage sheet fq bundle while i normally...

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day 14, class #11: sunday, april 28 south loop, 11:00 am despite what i've always thought, earlier is not always better. sigh. i woke up super early this morning...like 5:00 in the morning early....

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saturday, april 20 day #6: FAIL. my excuses today: i was at the do it your own damn self craft show today, and had to work at 7 pm...until they called me, at 6 pm, that i was cancelled. go figure...

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day 3: FAIL. i was on my way to the yoga studio after work, but i was so tired that i was falling asleep...not good! :( went home and slept instead! and, i found the most hilarious bikram yoga ar...

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wicker park, 10:00 am (why don't they have an earlier class at this location?) my butt hurts. despite my *super crappy* sleep last night and being super achy, i was actually looking forward to an...

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so it's been a while. okay...maybe more than a while. but i've been busy, i swear! anyways. we're going to start this off (again) right. first things first. we'll get to the crafty stuff soon, i ...

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proceed with caution: RANT following!i know i haven't blogged in a while - but, i just *had* to today after reading about the 13-month old twins who died late last week. and no, it wasn't an acci...

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sigh.last night, i started to descale the coffeemaker. i ran 48 ounces of vinegar through it, and the instructions said to let it sit for at least 4 hours. ok. it was night time, so perfect.i pur...

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i am not - *not* allowed to go fabric shopping anymore! at least not for a while. :)i've been sewing and sewing these blooming lotus nine patches for what...a month now? while i was sewing the la...

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sigh. i am in *love*. michael miller's 'alfabeto italiano collezione'.i even love it despite the fact that all 26 letters are not there. but how awesome is that - an almost complete alphabet, in ...

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as i was getting ready to spend nearly an entire saturday off sitting in a day-long nclex review class yesterday, there was a blurb on the news about some kind of "national start a diet day" this...

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so this is why i should never - *never!* - be allowed to leave the house & go to the fabric store. i finally(!) received my so buzzy quilt bee fabrics on wednesday - you should have seen me waiti...

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so, instead of going out of town for the long weekend, nick & i stayed at home. we were able to go and visit some friends, and, on sunday, we went to wolff's flea market at the allstate arena. i ...

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today i decided that i have a love/hate relationship with my dyson. after neglecting the floors for about 2 weeks, without even a quick swiffer in between - between the two of us and the two cats...

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so, it's just after midnight, and it's still 75 degrees outside. what happened to spring?i made a little bit of progress tonight. i turned some of this (a bunch of vintage linen fabric scraps i b...

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so i was reading the paper today, and there was an article that had this statement:honestly, i can't even remember what the article was about, decluttering or something along those lines. (you kn...

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the good, the bad and the ugly!so i was commenting on all my photos on flickr, and then a realization came to me: why am i commenting on them *here*, when i can comment on them on my *blog* (that...

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i am a freakin' idiot. so i choose possibly the worst time *ever* to knit these:(did i mention that, in additon to knitting these, i am in the middle of my p.e. week and have a final coming up ne...

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so i can't believe i actually finished a project in time - actually, let me rephrase that - finished a project, with time to spare.case in point: 23rd of december, i've decided to make all of my ...

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happy new year!okay...so i promised that it wouldn't be another year until i posted...and lookee who's here! :)so...we're only 2 days and an hour into the new year, and i'm already knees-deep int...

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i'm too crafty for my own good.whooa. - oh yeah. it's me. and, if anyone is even following this blog anymore (which i suspect is no one), i'm sure you figured i'd fallen off the face of the earth...

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hump day.sorry for the lack-o-posting here for a while, but, gosh...just so much has been going on here lately!first off: da bears.i have to admit, i know hardly anything about football. i rememb...

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so wow. we're 13 days into the new year's already...can you believe it?i didn't make any new years resolutions this year, but, i think it has worked out better. now, i'm actually *going* to the g...

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new years, (not really) missed connections, bad boyfriends and brazilian waxing...here's hoping everyone had a very safe and wonderful new years!just a few comments on my evening last night:mid-3...

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secret pal swag!so, on my trip to my super nice post office early last week, i was presented with a few boxes, one of which contained my second secret pal 9 package! i wasn't even at chicago ave....

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