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  Great-Great Grandmama Olene would be so proud (maybe)

  01.13.09 | Permalink | 12 Comments

  I really have no idea if Grandmama Olene was crafty. I do know that she joined the Mormon church in Norway with her husband Andrew. They came across the plains to settle in Utah, but they didn’t stay long. Perhaps it was the cushy locomotive transportation then available rather than the soul-refining hardships of the [...]

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  The Mod Podge Squad

  11.18.08 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  Once again I bring you a tip that I am probably the last person on earth to hear about it. (Last time it was my mother’s revolutionary microwave-cleaning method). Have you heard of this stuff? It’s great. You smear it on a surface (like wood, glass, metal), then on a flat object (fabric, photographs, stickers, [...]

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  Sugar and Sugar, and Everything Nice

  07.08.08 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  Last week Mary Poppins visited, and she brought a craft. I think she got the idea from church, where the nice ladies helped the kids make sugar cube temples. Families are big at the Mormon church. By big, I mean important, though often they are above-average-in-size, too. Dick and I were married in the Manti temple ten years ago, and [...]