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I’ve Got My Moogly On!

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Have you got your Moogly on?

If not, you are surely missing out on something special. More precise, someone special.

Tamara Kelly is the woman behind the needles, hooks and yarns and she is a genius. Seriously.

 

She can take your ideas and work them into reality like a crafty, yarn sorcerous.

I recently commissioned Tamara to make a couple quart sized mason jar cozies for me. I had bought a pair of cuppow lids and needed to insulate my warm beverages and catch the condensation from my cold beverages.

What’s a cuppow? They are brilliant! They turn a wide mouth mason jar into a hot or cold reusable travel mug. BPA free and 100 recyclable with minimum recycled packaging and made in Massachusetts.

I decided on a wooly Union Jack in vintage colors of wool and one in happy colors of cotton. After a few back and forth messages to pick my yarn colors here’s what arrived in my post box.

How gorgeous are they?!? They are complete with bottoms so that I don’t have to worry about coasters and the cotton one absorbs the condensation so no slippery slope to be had or drips down my shirts.

These pics are taken on the tray table beside the chair I do most of my work in. And yes, that is a cupcake wrapper. What?!?! Do you not eat cupcakes for breakfast? Lovely, homemade, chocolate, buttermilk cupcakes with light, frothy frosting?

You don’t? Poor you…

Milo Murphy ~ America's Next Top Model

 

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Ladies Who Laugh ~ part one

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And laugh and laugh we did! I lost count of how many times I was doubled over with tears streaming down my face, trying to catch my breath and not pee my pants.

Nancy, Marisa, Kayla, Despina, Katie, Jennifer

Marisa and I were the first to arrive even though my GPS, also known as Bossy Bitch, tried her best to send us to Falmouth instead of Eastham. Bob, the cottage’s owner, met us there and showed us everything we needed to know about the place. Which was even more wonderful in person.

Seriously. The rooms were exactly as pictured on the rental site. Exactly. No surprises at all, which I guess was the surprise! The cottage has just enough original details, (built in 1913), while still providing all modern necessities. Which, let’s face it, for me, is all about the kitchen.

I joked about the kitchen when I found the cottage online with it’s blush pink counters and while I still wouldn’t choose them for a kitchen, they fit the cottage perfectly. The range was propane- hurrah! – a full size fridge, which was empty when we arrived and soon overflowing with everyone’s groceries.

I really should have taken a picture of the fridge when it was loaded up, it was full of fresh fruits and vegetables, just gorgeous.

Note : Next time, and there is going to be a next time in the autumn, maybe we should bring along a stills photographer as we were all too busy laughing, talking and catching up to remember to take pics.

But back to the kitchen. I planned the menu, made up the shopping list and then divided the shopping list between us all. There was no discussion about this, these ladies know me. (The good, the bad and the ugly me.) I would be head chef and they would be my back up dancers. And yes, you read that right.

Friday night we had a dinner of :

After we ate, laughed and chattered our way through the meal, the table was cleared and dishes were washed, (by my back up dancers).

We reassembled around the table and the merriment continued, music playing in the background, until, at nearly 3 AM, the last of us, (Despina, Katie & I), wandered off to bed.

Tired but happy. Very, very happy.

To be continued…

 

 

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Everything Old is (re)New(ed) Again!!!

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Traveling abroad has taught me many things over the years.

  • People are the same the world over. We just live differently. We all want to be loved, live a long joyful life and see our children grow & have children of their own.
  • You can shop better with fewer choices. A grocer offering local, in season foods is a less stressful experience once you get over the shock of not being able to buy strawberries year round. (Admit it, out of season strawberries don’t taste like much anyway.)

And one of the most important, to me anyway;

  • You can live very large in a much smaller space and with less things.

I have been editing out unnecessary things and clutter after every trip. I still have a long way to go as the selling off in preparation for moving into NYC is proving and I look forward to when we begin living in our new space.

I have surfed and floated through the Apartment Therapy site to get ideas of how other people take tiny city living spaces and make them into wonderfully warm homes.

 

 

People have done amazingly creative things with bits most of us would not only overlook, but toss out without a thought.

This tea light holder for instance.

Tealight Upcycle via Taylor Made

How cute is that? And from just taking a second look at those cheap, plastic eggs we all have around at some point when you have children.

So I took a look around my house and came up with this!

My new side, tray table!

  • The lag/base is from a laundry basket that the canvas bag wore out that I have yet made time to sew a new one.
  • The box is from a local business, found on Craig’s List. ($1 each!) The legs are just using the confines of the box.
  • Topped with a pine tray I have had for nearly 20 years.

I love it! What do you think?

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