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Lorena on February 22nd, 2012

I’ve already posted about this over on Ravelry (in the new HaldeCraft group, shout out to mah yarnies, yo!) but wanted to make a blog post about it as well, just in case anyone isn’t on Ravelry. OK, so let me start with my apologies for my lack of total-spot-on information; Erica has told me [...]

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Lorena on February 9th, 2012

Busy day yesterday. Washed and started to block this little afghan I whipped out (the edges are still a little damp this morning but I might be ready for an official finished object photo shoot this afternoon). Started to dye March sock club. Spent an inordinate amount of time overdying it, since one shade turned [...]

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Lorena on February 4th, 2012

Last night was our friend Mariana’s photography opening at Tasty Buddha; they do a rotating artist (I think on a quarterly basis) and while of course the artist makes money, some proceeds also go to a different charity every year. Their charity this year is the Pace Center for Girls, and they said last night that this [...]

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If you’re an old-school Gainesvillian, you are now cursing me. Hee hee hee. You should see the look on Tim’s face when I bust that tune out… it’s total revenge for every time he makes that damn phone noise. Here’s my lunch from the Faire; “ye old fruit and cheese plate” coupled with an orange [...]

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Lorena on January 25th, 2012

Yesterday was a throwback to the start of the year; hanging out with good friends and eating great food. Lynn came up from “down South” (and I say it like it’s a million miles away but it’s like, an hour) and helped me to wrap soap (a day off for her, and a big help [...]

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Lorena on January 22nd, 2012

Friday’s kiln firing. All four of those messily wrapped mugs will show up for sale soon. One thing I noticed yesterday is that by cleaning greenware every Saturday, but only loading the kiln up to fire every other Saturday, it doesn’t take as long to get work done! I mean, it does; it still takes [...]

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Lorena on January 10th, 2012

I’ve got a new soap dish that I’m offering – … and it’s only available online at the Wild Iris Marketplace, or in person at Wild Iris Books (802 West University Avenue). The dish is five inches across, round, and just slightly curved for the soap to rest without sliding out. It could also be [...]

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Lorena on January 5th, 2012

In just a couple of hours I will be bringing in a good-sized order of soap to Wild Iris Books (802 West University Avenue, and have I mentioned recently the great cafe, Cafe Colette, that’s gone into the back of the bookstore?). I’ve gone ahead and added the soap already to my online shop with [...]

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Lorena on January 4th, 2012

Yesterday was Tim’s birthday, and I am here to tell you that he ate well! We all went to Satchel’s for lunch (getting there before him to get a table and place an order for our “invisible friend”) and although Tim had to rush back to work, the rest of us walked through Lighting Salvage [...]

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Lorena on January 3rd, 2012

Good times, y’all. Yesterday continued the trend of the year so far; eating great food and spending quality time with people I love. We met up for lunch at Chopstix (where they’ve redone the sushi bar and y’all, SWANK!) and then went off to walk around the part of Payne’s Prairie with the 50-foot observation [...]

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