Thankful Thursday

I’m thankful for fun times I’ve had with different friends over the past week.
I’m also thankful for fun non-research-related projects that I look forward to working on when I’m at home– especially the vintage dress project (click the “vintage dress project” tag in the tag cloud to the right for more details), and the T-shirt [...]

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Test fabric

One evening last weekend, I got to hang out with C, and I was discussing the dress project with her.  We were at a fabric store and I was looking for ultra-cheap-o fabric so that I could do a run-through of the pattern before I actually cut the silk.  She was helping me look through [...]

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A project to tide me over…

While the weather here in the midwest is cold and nasty, I can’t do much with my garden…

But of course, I need some projects to keep me busy until it starts getting warmer. When we visited my family over the holidays, my mom gave me two lengths of vintage silk that she had had [...]

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Thankful Thursday

I’m thankful that my teaching went well this week.  I have two sections of a class that is “old hat” to me, and the students seem remarkably non-annoying and reasonably competent with the material.  That is refreshing.  I also have one section of a class that is completely new to me, though it is based [...]

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Thankful Thursday

I’m thankful for good progress at work this week, before the onslaught of teaching begins.  I’m thankful that when I do start teaching, part of it will be new to me, and therefore interesting  (The rest of it’s just the same old stuff I’ve taught >4 semesters already).  I’m thankful that my husband’s work is [...]

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Garden musings

I have been thinking about my garden for the upcoming summer. After talking to my husband a bit, we decided on some (broad-ish) categories of plants that we’d like to have:
tomatoes
cucumbers
peas?
some herbs
We liked the herbs we had last summer, but realized that we didn’t like basil in an amount corresponding to the amount that [...]

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Thankful Thursday (a teeny bit late)

I am thankful for:
Safe travels all over the East Coast and Midwest these past few weeks.
A wonderful time with my parents, brother, and extended family over the holidays.
An unexpected chance to see my husband’s parents, sister, and extended family. It was not the reason I would have chosen, but it was good to see [...]

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There’s one coming…

I haven’t dropped off the face of the earth, and I’ll be writing a new post soon!  My wonderful husband got me The Bountiful Container for a Christmas gift (see this post for more details about the book), so I’ll be planning my garden for the spring and sharing my thoughts about it here.

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