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Ho-Ho-Holidays

Posted in The Mook, cheap-ass crafts, family matters, much love on 12.25.2009 | 1 Comment »

For all the crap that goes along with the holidays – seeing relatives I cannot stand, the consumerism, the selling of the Santa idea – I somehow manage to put it together and pull it off. Which includes homemade gifts, homemade decor, awesome Goodwill finds and general festiveness. I think I had the most fun [...]

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Is It Over Yet?

Posted in cheap-ass crafts on 12.09.2009 | 1 Comment »

We’re all about the home-made holiday gifts this year. Well, homemade gifts and items purchased at second-hand stores, like books. I don’t quite understand buying books of the shelf at a book superstore. The only books I buy new are erotic fiction. Because I can’t generally find Alison Tyler anthologies at my local Salvation Army.  [...]

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Things to Make and Do

Posted in The Former Mister, The Mook, cheap-ass crafts, more happy pills please, putting the FUN in dysfunctional, solo parenting, work or lack thereof on 08.25.2009 | 3 Comments »

Create another set of produce bags for the community garden organizer Make Fudgy Orange-Zucchini Cake with Orange Glaze and find people to share it with to keep me from eating the entire thing Make Zucchini Fritters Find a few more recipes to make use of the zucchini harvest Take a stack of books and CDs [...]

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I am the Anti-Martha

Posted in The Mook, blogging, cheap-ass crafts, divorce, friends on 08.11.2009 | 6 Comments »

I don’t have a sewing studio or a craft room. What I do have is a kitchen table that my sewing machine sits on. A couch with bits of stray thread stuck to it. An obsession with checking out the linens in thrift stores to see if I can upcycle anything. So when I saw [...]

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Go Me!

Posted in The Mook, cheap-ass crafts, work or lack thereof on 08.04.2009 | 2 Comments »

No, I haven’t heard about the job (thanks for asking Amira). But, just now…I filed the taxes that I should have submitted in April. So I’ll have a wee bit of money coming to me. Enough to pay off my Visa bill. In full. And I’m drafting up a letter for my late great-aunt’s lawyers [...]

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Quick Update

Posted in The Former Mister, The Mook, The Season of Sleeping Alone, cheap-ass crafts, dating, divorce, friends, more happy pills please, on the road, sex, solo parenting, work or lack thereof on 07.22.2009 | 2 Comments »

I am still waiting to hear about the job. The interview went really, really well. I feel fairly confident. Until I think about it too much. — We survived camping. While I’ll never feel the need to sit around and talk about the acquisition of stuff (cars, bigger and better camping equipment, all the crap [...]

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Cheap-Ass Crafts

Posted in The Mook, cheap-ass crafts on 05.11.2009 | Leave a Comment »

After much trial and error and shoving aside of craft projects that The Mook would lose interest in after about 3.2 minutes, I came up with something that (a) occupies her for as much time as she chooses to be occupied, (b) is cheap and (c) can be done again and again. Your materials: a [...]

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