Jon and I are going to New Orleans for the Super Bowl this weekend Well, never mind.  Apparently the worst snow storm ever is coming to DC and ALL the flights to anywhere have been canceled for the entire weekend.  We’ll be watching the game in our apt.  Thankfully, we stocked up on snacks before [...]

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My goodness… that was fast.  It’s almost 2010?
Like SouleMama, one of my favorite crafty-lady bloggers, I’m a tree-out-the-door on the morning of the 26th kind of girl.  Or, in my case, folded up and put back into its box.  The glitter snowflakes are down and so is the garland.  The wreath will stay on the [...]

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Jon and I went to see Sherlock Holmes this weekend.  It’s a great film if, and only if, you are okay with it being not really anything like the books or the Jeremy Brett version.  Robert Downy Jr. and Jude Law are just too handsome to be Holmes and Watson really– and since when did [...]

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Spent 24 hours in Annapolis, MD this weekend–a town that avoided damage during the Revolution and Civil Wars and, as a result, is full of old buildings, graveyards, and historic markers.  We loved just about every cold, rainy, soggy, damp minute of it.  In theory we went up for Jon’s company’s holiday party… but mostly [...]

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R.I.P Grandma.  I’ve got lots of good memories of your house in the VA countryside– deer in the creek, warm afternoons in the hammock, learning about gardening in that enormous spot you had.  I know you lived in TX the last 6 years, closer to the family, but I’ll always rememer you in VA, with [...]

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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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Spent this weekend doing lots of fun stuff.  The most fun, however, was watching the Saints eek out a win over the Washington Redskins.

I haven’t been to an NFL game since I was… 10? maybe 12?  Anyway, we had a ball.  WHO DAT?!

Oh, and did I mention the Saints won?  They did.  In overtime.

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It’s nice, when the weather gets cold and the days are so dark, to reflect on the year behind us and the things in our life that bring us joy.  Today, a (short, incomplete) list of things I am thankful for this year:

Being lucky, in all sorts of ways;
Being employed at a job I love;
Being [...]

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Since I’m *trying* to make the gifts I’m sending out to friends and family as well as the 40-something holiday cards I send out (some of which are no-doubt heading to people who read this blog), I’m going to keep mum about my plans for this fabric, paper, thread, and decor.  Just know two things: [...]

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Audry Tautou in Coco Avant Chanel
It’s been a wheezy, sneezy, stuffy few weeks around here.  I got (another) cold and then Jon caught it too.  We’ve been doing a lot of trashy-TV watching and drinking a lot of lemon tea.  I finally felt well enough this weekend to head out to see Coco Avant Chanel.  [...]

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