Monthly Archives: August 2009

back to school for cloth napkins

August 28, 2009 – 2:46 pm

Our family eats every meal sitting at a table with placemats and cloth napkins. We do this not because we’re oh-so-fancy but because we put a lot of effort into making our meals and gathering together to eat is important to us. We are also aware that not everyone gets three meals a day and [...]

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knitting small things with great love

August 16, 2009 – 10:14 pm

When we traveled to China to meet our daughter in 2002, we were also permitted to travel to the orphanage that had overseen her care from the time she was three days old until we adopted her at 10 months. The American interpreter who had been to many orphanages throughout China, said of this particular [...]

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adventures with a $5 dress

August 11, 2009 – 11:04 pm

Although I design and make quilts for a living, I still consider myself an adventurous beginner when it comes to sewing garments. I can put in a zipper and am a pro at hemming clothes, as any 5-foot-tall woman should be, but when I look at these bloggers who can take an old jean jacket [...]

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through wind and rain, Wheezy Rider rides CowaLUNGa 2009

August 2, 2009 – 9:54 pm

On Friday night we stared and stared at the weather forecasts for southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois on my laptop but they kept showing the thunderstorm icon. I had raised nearly $1,400 for the Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago, my story had made it into two local newspapers and I had the names of [...]

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