Materfamilias Writes

Polka-dot happiness

Polka-dot happiness

We had a lovely dinner with my son, Zach, and his partner, Joey, on Saturday night, an early celebration of Mother’s Day and my birthday, at the restaurant Joey manages, a well-appointed yet still comfortably…

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Oh, what a lucky woman she was (with apologies to Emerson, Lake & Palmer)

Oh, what a lucky woman she was (with apologies to Emerson, Lake & Palmer)

Oh, I have so much to show you and tell you, and I know I promised to do Mardel’s meme, but let me just show you a few photos for now and tomorrow, when I…

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Pattern Mixing, Guessing. . .

Pattern Mixing, Guessing. . .

Continuing with my themes of finding spring in sprightly dress (since it’s not showing up in the form of sunshine) as well as boldly combining patterns as inspired by Karen, Une Femme, and those academically…

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Spring Colours — garden and closet

Spring Colours — garden and closet

It has been so awful here, weather-wise. Yes, last week’s snow finally melted off the ground, and I’m no longer worried about the pipes to the cottage freezing at the nighttime -7 lows, but the…

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Print Studies

Print Studies

So I’m trying to do my homework for Karen’s Print-mixing 101: what grade would I get for this? Remember, I’m just shopping my own wardrobe here, and I have a limited number of prints to…

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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.