Monthly Archives: July 2009

chatting about our next book with editor Susanne Woods

July 28, 2009 – 12:38 pm

No matter how many times I do it, the first business meeting with someone still feels like a blind date. What should I wear? Will they like me? Are they meeting with me just because someone asked them to or are they serious? Are they going to lead me on and then dump me for [...]

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wheezy rider wants to ride for you!

July 24, 2009 – 6:07 pm

Have a seat. This is going to be a long one. When I started Craft Nectar I didn’t want to blog about how many loads of laundry I had done that day or what I had for dinner. I wanted it to be about inspiring people to be creative. In that sense I decided that [...]

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nibble tray

July 21, 2009 – 1:59 pm

is that crochet gone wild at the Hakone Open Air Museum? I want a whole collection of these beautiful felted creatures it’s a challenge for me to sometimes thread my needle, but sculptures in the eye of a needle

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get a clue

July 13, 2009 – 10:56 pm

Well, we all survived the Nancy Drew Mystery Birthday Sleepover. No tears and no trips to the Emergency Room. We decided that the secret to the party would be in having a series of clues that the girls had to decipher in the dark. Each had a flashlight or headlamp and scurried around the house [...]

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the mystery of the embroidered pillowcases

July 9, 2009 – 1:36 pm

We’re all in high gear for the big mystery sleepover this weekend. The plan is to build a giant fort using the fort cozy I’ve already blogged about. The girls will sleep in the fort and I will make sure that it doesn’t collapse on them in the middle of the night because our daughter [...]

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