I think I have everything worked out and am ready for visitors to arrive. Let me know what you think about the new setup.

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Everyone laughs at me and my spreadsheets but I keep them for everything! I’m not sure I cold function without my spreadsheets.
Here are my Fabric Used and Fabric Added sheets for January. Sad to say but UPS is bringing me a box tomorrow so February won’t look nearly so good but all that [...]

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I went through the posts that are added to Mr. Linky from last week and roughly added the totals that had been posted. Some didn’t post totals and that’s fine — everyone should do what works for them and not worry about what or how the rest of us are doing. This is [...]

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Grab a beer and some Kleenex because this is one sad story!
I’ve had the same hosting company for about 5 years and was relatively happy with them til a few months ago. They were switching over from vdeck version 1 to vdeck version 3 and they’d tell me they were moving my account on [...]

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This evening I got the bright idea to “fix” some problems with my web pages, sunshinequilts.com and patchworktimes.com. In the process, I screwed up everything! I’ve been having trouble with customer service at my hosting company and after being on hold for THREE hours tonight, I gave up and switched hosts. My [...]

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The 5th question is:
You’ve mentioned “flash freezing” on your cooking blog. Can you explain that?
Flash freezing is simply putting individual items into the freezer and letting them freeze fairly solid, then putting them into a larger container for storage.
I freeze stuffed peppers by placing them individually, not touching each other, unwrapped, onto a cookie [...]

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If you’ve followed my blog very much, you know I have a non-traditional (pretty bad!) sense of color. I have a color wheel and I have books on color and I’ve studied and I sometimes remember the concepts but I just use what I like. End of story! Oh wait . . [...]

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Have you ever heard that some people resemble their pets? We have a mini dachshund — short legs, a little overweight and that’s exactly how Vince and I are — short legs and a little overweight. Ah heck .. Vince and I are both more overweight than is Speck.
Jace and Sally raise [...]

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Isn’t he just so cute? Well . . OK . . maybe if he’d get a haircut and have on decent pants instead of faded jeans with spots on them . . then he’d be so cute!
One of Chad’s friends from Owensboro now plays in a group and they were going to be playing [...]

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One of my readers asked:
how do you estimate how much you use on a scrappy project? Using big pieces for backings or borders wouldnt be bad, but what about little pieces, say like triangles or squares you would cut out of a FQ? Are you giving it a good ole guess?
If I’m using a pattern, [...]

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