From the monthly archives:

June 2008

The Chicken Taj Mahal Gets a Fence

26 June 2008

Our egg factories continue to receive far too much attention and far too many luxuries. Especially considering they haven’t produced a single egg yet.
Over the weekend we built a fence to surround the Chicken Taj Mahal. The fence isn’t designed so much to keep anything out as to keep the chickens in. Chickens are a [...]

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Housekeeping

25 June 2008

A few months ago I moved some things – including the files for this blog – around on the servers. It all seemed to go just fine – until…
I upgraded the wordpress installs. All the older image links broke. Luckily I figured out just how they broke. It’s taken a couple of hours but all [...]

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What’s Blooming

25 June 2008

Last week in the garden we had:
Daisies everywhere. The pasture is covered with them.
On the west side of the house we have the slender deutzia in bloom at the back of the herb bed.

And sea pinks surrounding the inceeasingly tall lily stalks.

My peonies are almost ready to bloom. Actually this picture is form several [...]

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Playing with (paper) Dolls

25 June 2008

This little harlequin dancer is sitting on my worktable waiting for a face. That’s always the hard part.

I started with the doll parts and some fancy red and gold paper that became her tights.
Then she got a skirt.

I started with some organza and cut two layers. the upper layer is notched and then the edge [...]

Tagged as: paper dolls

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Words Found Today

11 June 2008

In the corner of the page containing a pattern for cutting out a jointed paper doll.
1. Enlarge or reduce template to desired size.
2. Cut out.
3. Embellish and attach pieces together.
I think these may be the lost directions for life.

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