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One year, eight months, 16 days

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I've been a widow now for one year, eight months, and sixteen days. Twenty months and two weeks, if you call it by the way...

Dear Tim; who were you, even?

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CW: grief, confusion, anger, you know, all that stuff that comes with death of a spouse and being a widow. Dear Tim; Sometimes I wonder......

What it’s like to advertise as a small, one person, maker/artist/craft business

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In short? A f'in nightmare. Print advertising seems like it's hardly worth mentioning. I'd love to be able to afford to advertise in my favorite...

This Week in Vacation Planning (10/22/23)

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At this point the dates for my vacation next year have changed so many times, I've started not even telling my friends with whom I...
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One year, eight months, 16 days

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I've been a widow now for one year, eight months, and sixteen days. Twenty months and two weeks, if you call it by the way...
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Monday Musings

House Painting vs Residing: Pros vs Cons

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The minute Tim and I moved into this house, I started thinking that I wished it was a different color. I don't HATE pale yellow,...
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Childhood Friends

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Who was your first friend? What did they mean to you as a kid? Do you have a favorite story about them? Are you still...
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Monday Musings

Favorite foods

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Do you have a favorite dish, special dessert, or go-to recipe? Where has this dish made appearances in your life? Is there a common thread?...
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Forgotten Skills

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Do you have any skills you've lost over time? List as many as you can think of, no matter how proficient you were at them....
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Rituals

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What ordinary rituals did your family have? Perhaps you always got ice cream after baseball games, or went fishing on Sundays. Do you feel like...
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Places

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Remember a new place you visited (a cool house or restaurant, a new neighborhood, or even a new country). Try to remember seeing the place...
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Dear Barbara; about your house

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Barbara, I have never more wanted to talk to you then this week, when getting ready to sell your house. Why is everything so dusty?...
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Monday Musings Our House is a Very Very Very Fine House

When is a house a home?

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Working on Barbara's house - which, I know, is my house - has been making me think a lot lately about the soul of a...
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Beginnings

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Recall a time in your life when you made a fresh start. How did your life change? Well, there was the time that I moved...
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Big Feelings

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I have most of a post written that I'm just not sure about posting, because... it doesn't exactly put Tim in a shining light. It...
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What am I missing?

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What is it that you feel is missing from your life right now? List as many or as few items as you like. I kind...
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Maker of thrown, hand-built, and slipcast ceramics; dyer and spinner of yarn; writer of science fiction; watcher of people and nature.

Lorena Haldeman
New in the shop - Use this cutie solo, or with the New in the shop - Use this cutie solo, or with the matching larger and smaller ones as a set of nesting dishes. This is perfect for serving dessert, a side dish, or to set cookies or cupcakes on at a party. Perfect for holiday gatherings!
This good-sized hanging planter is suitable for in This good-sized hanging planter is suitable for indoor or outdoor use (although if you live in a place with regular freezes, we recommend bringing it inside for the winter, as extreme temperature changes can be bad for the ceramic... let alone your plant, which... you probably already knew!). Comes with a rope hanger.
Camper planters; now in two sizes! Camper planters; now in two sizes!
Maybe you feel a twinge when, at dinner, you bring Maybe you feel a twinge when, at dinner, you bring out the butter on a small saucer. Or maybe on a cutting board that you'd rather be using for something else. Or maybe you don't even bring out butter at all, unless someone asks for it, just because you don't know what to carry it to the table with. Wouldn't you rather your guests get a twinge of envy?
GLAM Craft Show countdown.... 3 days! Only three d GLAM Craft Show countdown.... 3 days! Only three days until GLAM Craft Show on December 3rd (at First Magnitude Brewery in Gainesville, Florida), where HaldeCraft, along with 90 other vendors, will be celebrating fifteen years of this amazing show. Come check it out, see more of what's in this teaser photo, and everything else that the other fantastic vendors will have! I'm excited to see more potters there, like Cath Boswell Ceramics (https://www.instagram.com/cathboswell/). How delicate and lovely are her things?!
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