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Super Grover Week

February 21st, 2011|Everything Else|

Did you know it was Super Grover Week?  Did you know that Super Grover is now Super Grover 2.0?

 

According to Sesame Workshop:
He may not leap tall buildings in a single bound or fly through the air with the greatest of ease, but he loves to unleash the power of investigation! This season “Sesame Street” introduces an all new segment- “Super Grover 2.0.” As he observes, questions, investigates, and reports, our hero literally stumbles across solutions to problems all across the planet.

As an extension of the season’s [read more…]

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Waterlily

February 21st, 2011|Gallery Exhibitions, Sewing & Design|

Lily Pond Box.  Donated to the Textile Center’s Fiber Frenzy fundraiser last weekend.  Made from scraps of hand-dyed fabric.  The boxes were donated to the center and we in turn gave them to board members and individual members at our annual meeting for them to do the finishing – adding fiber art to the “frame” in the top.  It will make a lovely jewelry box for someone.

 

Presto Chango

February 17th, 2011|Dyes|

My mom got me this sweater in green for Christmas.  It is my very favorite sweater.  Andy calls it my Mr Rogers sweater because nearly every day I come home from work and I change out of my work things and I put on my green sweater.  I love it so much I got on LLBean and I ordered another one.  The only problem was the only color they had in my size was geranium pink.  Andy convinced me to order it, but when I put it on he [read more…]

Mending

February 16th, 2011|Everything Else|

It’s been a strange and stressful week here at Chez Rahn and so I spent the evening destressing by mending.  I replaced some buttons on a sweater.  I refinished a wooden brooch that had had an accidental trip through the washer.  I am about to go and scrounge for the next project.  It has been very soothing and there is something satisfying about finishing little projects like this and having something wonderful at the end.

What do you do to de-stress?

Hi, I’m Becka.

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