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Big Day at the Salvation Army
Great day at the Salvation Army, it’s a blue, yellow, red, coral, green kind of day. Recommend on Facebook Tumblr it Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend … Read entire article »
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Getting Wild With Wool:Online Course with Deanne Fitzpatrick in April, last session for this year
April 2 to May 7, 2012 Getting Wild with Wool: An online course about hooking rugs with Deanne Fitzpatrick Hooking Rugs with Style and Substance Deadline for Registration will be March 22 We are offering this course again as so many missed the deadline and requested it. It will not be offered again for quite sometime so if you are interested please register this session. With our first session well under way and going really well, I decided to offer this course again this spring as so many people have expressed an interest. This course will … Read entire article »
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Getting Wild With Wool:Online Course with Deanne Fitzpatrick in April, last session for this year
April 2 to May 7, 2012 Getting Wild with Wool: An online course about hooking rugs with Deanne Fitzpatrick Hooking … Read more »
cuppas
Dear Diary, Right now I just poured some loose assam tea into a strainer and then poured … Read more »
some things do matter
Dear Diary, One night my husband came home from his childhood home with these beautiful tools. They … Read more »
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heartwarmingly honest letters
Dear Diary, I asked if I could post her (names don’t matter) letter on the blog when … Read more »
Deanne Fitzpatrick Teaches Mama Mansour to Hook Rugs-Funny
Dear Diary, My friend Donny Miller and I have been at it again. We had this idea…we thought … Read more »
The Art of Hooking Rugs: A Video about Creativity and Rug Hooking
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lily again
Dear Diary, Maybe it is that she comes and takes over my good chair, my only good chair in the studio, like it is her own. Maybe it’s because she threw her body across it like my cat does, in sudden ownership. Maybe it is that she never says “Deanne I think you are brilliant” but instead says, “Deanne, you think you’re something … Read entire article »
design tips & tricks – Susan Black
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. Joseph Chilton Pierce Hello, me again. Susan Black from 29 Black Street. ya huh !! I live on Black Street in a 2 story brick house 139 steps from the ocean (in Pugwash). I post here on Deanne’s blog on the 20th of every month. It’s Diane Krys on … Read entire article »
home
Dear Diary, I love home, the feeling of home, the vinegar bottle in the window, the past due flowers falling over on the table, the fruit loading down the bowl. I spent way too much time at home, but yet I can’t pull myself away sometimes. I love the nest. I love to nest. Sometimes the nest makes me a bit … Read entire article »
Design
29 Black Street. Dear Diary, Susan black over at 29 black street gave a great example of how she processes a design.it is worth reading,and beautiful besides . Every one of us approaches design a bit differently. I could tell you exactly what I do and Susan could tell you exactly what she does but the real important thing is finding … Read entire article »
Friday Foolishness
Here’s Deanne checking on Brenda otherwise known as the carry on gang Katherine was working on these Funky Fish kits and they were so pretty we wanted to share them here. Recommend on Facebook Tumblr it Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend … Read entire article »
the light at the bridge street cafe
Dear Diary, I am learning so much. The good side is that I am learning…the downside is that I cannot possibly carry out all the things I am learning. I am one woman. One little woman. One small woman. One woman with a wide angle brain. One woman with multitudes of ideas. One woman with two hands. One woman with five wonder women … Read entire article »
colour……hooked rugs
Dear Diary, here is the inspiration for my next rugs, pillows from last spring. I can’t quite bring myself to the frame. Three big squares are on there but yet I am not quite ready to hook them. Thinking a lot about colour lately, maybe the three primary colours is the way to go, but still to make them interesting … Read entire article »



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