They Wore Blue Velvet

You guys.  I'm learning upholstery.  Our scrappy, mildly-neglected library started out with these sloppily upholstered chairs we got for free on Craigslist. They were in such rough condition that the first...

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The NyQuilt

I was sick pretty much all of January and spent most of the entire month begrudgingly confined to bed.  In the middle of the night, fueled by a large dose of NyQuil, I had what can only be described as a vision in which...

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Nancy Drew and the Case of the Mural in our Library

This spring one of my goals was to finally give some attention to our library upstairs. We've always really wanted a library space where we could sit and read together, but we've just never quite gotten it all the way together...

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Valentine's Surprise

I have always maintained that the easiest way to ensure that someone is surprised is to present them with something at a time not in any way affiliated with that holiday. At least, that's what I'm telling myself. In reality,...

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