Eight Random Things

Before I started blogging myself, I would occasionally notice bloggers posting “eight random things” about themselves or responding to other memes that they’d been tagged with. As a reader, I always found these interesting because…

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Dressing to Please Ourselves, Part II — daughter and granny!

As a follow-up or complement to my previous post on Dressing to Please Ourselves, I thought I’d show you two examples of what that might look like across the generations. That’s my mom on the…

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Dressing to please ourselves

I know my next task here should be my “8 random things about me” post, and I’ll get to that later today, but I just spotted something on The Sartorialist that I want to record…

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Cable Front Pullover — finished!

I began this sweater last November following Wilma Peers’ pattern (Cable Front Pullover) from Fall 2006 Vogue Knitting and finished it by March at the latest. I blocked it, sewed most of the seams together…

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Putting the boot to obligations!

I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed this afternoon — I’ve just got home with a stack of research paper proposals and accompanying annotated bibliographies which have to be returned tomorrow. There’s a storm promised which always…

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Copyright

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