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I Thought I Knew You, What Did I Know?

You don’t look different, but you have changed I’m lookin’ through you, you’re not the same ~Lennon/McCartney Visitors to my blog may notice some visual differences today. Hopefully that’s all you notice. A spontaneous conversation with my friends Jeff and Erica, who Know About These Things, regarding the possibility of moving my blog from WordPress.com [...]

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Sun, August 9 2009 » blogging » 3 Comments

Twerps. Twoids?

Snippets of information that WOULD be tweets if I could squeeze them into 140 characters. But I talk too much. I smashed a large, lumbering, pesky fly last night. Whacked it a few times to make sure it was good and dead. Didn’t rush to dispose of it because 1. euw and 2. it wasn’t [...]

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Mon, August 3 2009 » blogging, friends, gardening, sewing, vacation » 1 Comment

The Skirt

Finally, the skirt that I promised to blog about. This skirt is near and dear to me because it combines so many things that I like: Vintage illustration, thrifting, handcrafting, fashion, recycling, and BALL FRINGE. You see, this skirt started life as a vintage kiddie curtain-and-valance set. Wonderful old Mother Goose illustrations, and, if I [...]

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Mon, April 6 2009 » Vintage & Retro Style, Viva Las Vegas, blogging, cute and fuzzy bunny, fashion, sewing » 13 Comments

Weekend Update

A blog post? On a weekend? No, Hell hath not frozen over. Although, by looking out the window on this April morning, you may not realize that. Yesterday was beautiful; sunny and warm, so today? Snow. Welcome to springtime along the Front Range. If you follow me on Twitter (@ampersandwich) you know that I was [...]

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Sat, April 4 2009 » Viva Las Vegas, blogging, fashion, friends, nostalgia, sewing, vacation » 3 Comments

It Will Stand

Woody doesn’t read my blog. I know that he doesn’t read it because when he asked me what had happened to the pie I was going to make him, and I cut-and-pasted the blog excerpt of the pie that was born from the withering apples of “his” pie, he seemed pleased that I’d written about [...]

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Tue, January 27 2009 » Vintage & Retro Style, blogging, friends, music, nostalgia » 1 Comment