This issue of Vile, number 7- Winter 1979, is really the crowning jewel (it’s also the most difficult to photograph– the paper is awfully fragile and, since it’s bound with a metal tab nearly impossible to open completely).  Made in an addition of 300, this issue includes original works from artists who used rubber stamps.

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Spent the weekend in the VA countryside with some new friends– many from work.  As a thank you to our two hosts/planners/gourmet cooks I am going to award them adult merit badges. The border is just some free clip art from the Florida Educational Technology Clearinghouse.  I did the text in MSWord, printed it on [...]

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Look what Sarah made me!  My very own nest.  Honestly, this is just perfect for me and my mood these days.  The snow outside looks like it’ll be sticking around for a while.  I know folks in New England think this is normal but this is just not what we do in DC.  It just [...]

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I want to show you our bed.  It’s the cheapest Ikea bed that will hold a queen mattress, doesn’t have a foot-board (poor Jon is too tall and his feet stick off the ends of all beds), and doesn’t require a box spring.  The Dalselv hasn’t been the worst– when I first got it I [...]

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Ever since I made Liz stationery last week I can’t stop thinking about monograms.  I’ve seriously been staying away thinking about how my friends’ initials might tangle up nicely and what colors they’d like.  Everyone is getting monogrammed notes for their birthdays this year…  There are a lot of rules for monogramming but I quite [...]

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I really need to spend some time dealing with the camera settings– for some reason the colors lately have been way, way off.  These aren’t really as… saturated? as they look in these photos.

My Valentines this year are a bit… avant garde?  I actually can’t really tell if I like them all that much.  On [...]

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I’ve got a very dear friend leaving town this week– she’s been offered an excellent job out in California.  So, to send her on her way I put together a small package of stationary for her.  It is also a selfish way to say “send me mail” without saying “SEND ME MAIL.”  Yes, I do [...]

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Better late than never, right? I wanted to get this up first thing this AM but then life got in the way.

Above is the template for my Christmas card envelopes.  Well, it’s really just an envelope template that I happened to use for my Xmas cards but you know what I mean. I [...]

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This wreath was a lot of fun to put together (and so easy): no sewing at all was involved.  I just cut the fabric into 2 inch strips and pinned it onto a styrofoam wreath frame.  The ribbon is just a basic wired grosgrain ribbon and that glittery branch came from Michael’s.  Wreaths are my [...]

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Humph.  I had a great idea for my holiday cards this year– it was going to use my hip color palette and my new-found embroidery skills.  Sadly, it was not to be.  Embroidering text onto paper is a lot harder than I thought it would be.  In fact, I quickly realized that I could do [...]

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