Season’s Greetings

Wishing everyone the very best of this holiday season.

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Rolling, frogging and wrapping

First off I want to thank everyone that has commented or sent a message about my blog.  It’s nice to know that someone out there is actually reading what I ramble on about.
I stretched the preparation out over 3 days and ended yesterday with rollling and steaming 3½ dozen tamales.  A few hours after dividing the tamales [...]

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‘Tis the Season

This time of year is not only for the holidays.  It’s also time to make tamales.  So on this cold, gloomy, drizzly day I have a pork roast slow cooking with onions and garlic.  Depending on my energy levels it will take me another day or so to complete the tamale making process.  It’s easier [...]

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!@%$#%@

I’ve been knitting on a project with a marginal chance of finishing by Christmas.  This morning I looked at said project in horror and realized that I read the instructions wrong, so now I will be unraveling over a week’s worth of stitches and starting over.

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Raffia, Warm Wishes and Toby

I’ve been working on the jungle house for “A Crazy World” and was having trouble finding a suitable thread/stitch that I liked for the roof.  I had some loosely twisted jute but it fell apart as I tried to stitch it down.  Then I thought I remembered seeing some embroidery raffia, but couldn’t remember where.  [...]

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