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holiday message 2009

Posted on December 23, 2009December 22, 2014 by thirdstoryies

The finished quilt, the pieces now scattered a hundred different ways. Inspired by these quilts that I saw at a local museum and were once on first class stamps that I bought up when they were issued, I sat down to make something in a similar vein. I had sorted and stacked papers countless times…

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holiday message 2008 (january edition)

Posted on January 10, 2009December 22, 2014 by thirdstoryies

One of my favorite things that I do each fall is work on my annual Christmas card. I typically come up with the beginning stages of my idea as I’m hunched over a cutting mat working on E’s birthday invitations in mid-July. I make the paper stock purchases in late August when my favorite art…

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grateful

Posted on December 22, 2007 by thirdstoryies

2007 It’s Friday night, the last Friday before Christmas. The presents are (mostly) done, and (mostly) wrapped, the child is in bed but not yet sleeping and the house is settling into the near silence that it takes on at this time of night. For awhile now I have been composing this piece in my…

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