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Organizing/Prioritizing Life

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  • Grandma's Chocolate Meringue Pie
  • Old Fashioned Chocolate Meringue Pie
  • Broccoli Rice casserole from scratch
  • Best Bread ever (says the author)
  • Mennonite girls can cook
  • Zuchinni slice (or cheesy zuchinni casserole)
  • Baked Spaghetti
  • Alfredo sauce - Olive Garden copycat
  • Rain's Asparagus Soup
  • Flatbread pizza
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  • How to Spatchcock a Chicken
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  • Using leftover pickle juice

Instant Pot

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Health

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  • Surgical mask style (nice fit under chin)
  • Best fit face mask (adjustable ear ties)
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  • Different sized Olson Mask templates (links to)
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  • Easter Bunny stuffy
  • Tie-Top Pillow tutorial
  • Tea towel tutorial
  • chicken ornament w/ pattern
  • Jessie Chorley
  • Make an ironing board cover
  • How to make a vinyl front project bag
  • Christmas birds (sewing craft)
  • Sew a cloth napkin with mitered corners
  • Quilting as Art
  • Crazy Quilt tutorials
  • Sew a necktie zip pouch
  • Piecing together vintage linens into hexagons
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Vintage Cross Stitch Patterns

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  • medium sized dog
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  • alphabets, nursery, planes, all sorts
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  • Old fashioned bicycles, air balloon, train, etc... (page 14)
  • Below 3 patterns sets enlarged - use for actual patterns
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  • hearts in stars
  • Crossed Wing Designs
  • How to make a small pillow
  • Christmas inspirations
  • Small pillows
  • Little House Needleworks collections
  • Finishing cross stitch small pillows
  • Flat finishing bookmarks, etc.
  • Using mats while cross stitching, and griding cloth
  • Calculate cross stitch pattern size between different size weaves

Cross Stitch Samplers

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  • Quaker Rose

Mini Cross Stitch Motifs

  • possible birds, cats, dog motifs
  • fruits
  • mini animals
  • Antique cross stitch archives

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  • Overdye your own floss
  • Floral Meadow pattern - free!
  • miniature mimosa embroidery tutorial
  • miniature cotton flower embroidery tutorial
  • miniature lavender embroidery tutorial
  • miniature primrose embroidery tutorial
  • miniature wisteria embroidery tutorial
  • miniature tulip embroidery tutorial
  • How to choose the right needle
  • Embroidery like I've never seen it before
  • Christmas embroidery designs
  • Needle n Thread (includes embroidery patterns)

Crochet Helps

  • Linda Dean stitch tutorials
  • Crochet edging on pillowcases
  • How to size a crochet hat
  • How to square off the edges of a chevron pattern
  • crocheting in the round/spiral vs. joining
  • Hand-winding a center-pull ball
  • Blocking Wool
  • Adding beads while crocheting - genius!
  • How to crochet a perfect circle
  • How to crochet a perfect sphere
  • Invisible finish when crocheting in a spiral video

Try out these crocheted projects

  • Cabled baby blanket pattern
  • Twisted Fringe
  • Falling Leaver Baby Blanket
  • Penguin ornament
  • Snowflake patterns
  • Snow Cone Beanie pattern
  • Crochet a yoke on a t-shirt video tutorial
  • tiny elephant stuffie video tutorial
  • Tapestry Crochet
  • Cord of hearts
  • Making Plarn video
  • Crochet a pillow case edging
  • Crocheted Pansy pattern
  • Textured Pillows
  • Wave Edge for blanket (so pretty)
  • Crocheted flower wreath - beautiful
  • Crocheted Sunburst Heart
  • 7 point stars
  • Modern Crocheted Coasters

Crocheted Hotpads & Dishcloths

  • Colorwave Dishcloth
  • Undulated Dishcloth

Tunisian Crochet

  • Strawberry stitch
  • Tunisian Smock Stitch

Knitting Helps

  • Helical Knitting (2 colors)
  • 3-color Helix Knitting
  • Jogless Stripes or Helix knitting - Easy!
  • Jogless stripes
  • Stretchy bind-offs to try on scarves
  • Kitchener stitch for joining stockinette
  • How (and why) to seam a seamless sweater
  • Magic loop knitting video
  • Hand-winding a center-pull ball
  • Blocking Wool
  • Teaching Kids to Knit - inspiration for the grown-up too - check out the comments
  • How to frog knitting

Knitting Projects to consider

  • Color Tipped Scarf

Writing Helps

  • Using flashbacks in a story

Crafting With Kids

  • Rock Painting ideas

Minimalism

  • 15 things to declutter today
  • Questions to ask while minimzing
  • Journal Minimalism
  • Journal Minimalism (2)

Color

  • Color Challenged?
  • Color theory & and so much more
  • Dyeing jeans
  • consider this color tool
  • Design Seeds - color

Clip Art - rules always apply

  • Vintage Holiday Crafts clip-art source book

Not sure what to think...

  • Lisa Kokin artist

Photography

  • Nice photography links
  • Makelight
  • Digital Photography School
  • Photographing Blue Hour
  • free photography courses
  • Alison Photography course (in process)
  • How to take sharp photos

Misc.

  • estate settling guide
  • Pennsylvania Election Hearing 11/25/20
  • Blaise Pascal's Pensees
  • Speaking with confidence
  • Sharing private videos with friends/family
  • Google purchase history

Things we need to know...

  • Clean Clothes

Blogging Helps

  • posted my photos
  • Business Web Design
  • Blogging Basics 101
  • Tips for new bloggers
  • Protect Your Ideas
  • writing jobs
  • copyright protection
  • Blogging Tips (on side bar)
  • Backgrounds
  • Stylish ways
  • Tips for blogging (great resources at the end of post)
  • commenting on blogs (with link back)

Seasonal Spots

  • Tiny crocheted Christmas stockings
  • Easter decorating ideas
  • Make nests/bird cloches
  • Tips for a great Lent
  • Lenten Cleaning, week 1
  • Christmas tree from coat hangers
  • Lenten Cleaning 2010
  • Scrappy Advent Calendar - make
  • Scrappy Advent Calendar (wrapped)
  • Advent verses
  • Christmas front porch decorating ideas
  • Organized Christmas (great inexpensive gift ideas)
  • Gift ideas!

How To's

  • how to connect nighthawk wifi extender
  • Cutting glass bottles & jugs

Worth a second look...

  • What does the wisdom of God look like?
  • The purity spiral (audio podcast)
  • How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral
  • A (political) witch hunt on instagram
  • A democrat visits a Trump Rally
  • Brett Weinstein - censorship
  • Deplorable Knitter
  • How leaving social media effects your mind
  • How to overcome self-doubt

Inspired

  • Decorate that embroidery hoop
  • Pop-up museum in Tel Aviv
  • Soft White Underbelly
  • Exhausted and it's only January
  • Heather Lefebvre on The Meaning of Christmas
  • SOAP Bible study method
  • Crocheted cukoo clock!
  • 25 ways to wear a scarf video
  • Book: Crochet ABSea
  • Viveca's Decoupaged glass bowls
  • Doily Lamp
  • Sewing kit from an old eye glasses case
  • Making roses from silk ties tutorial
  • Crochet flowers wreath
  • Mini Leather Notebooks DIY
  • Sadie Seasongoods
  • Fun, simple creativity
  • Book Swap Party at Reid Girls Handmade
  • Creative End Table
  • Take one photo everyday

Using Stash

  • Stash Less
  • Use your stash now!
  • How to chain ply - aka Navoho Knitting
  • Stash busting strategies

Seconday Blog List

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    2 weeks ago
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    4 weeks ago
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    1 year ago
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    2 years ago
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