I love Saturdays! I think it is the best day of the week, because it is fun, it is productive, and it is relaxing. It is also our dump day! While Greg deals with our garbage, I get to have fun spending some time at the Put & Take, which is always full of surprises. I don’t always find great…
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CONTINUED FROM>> About Us >> Doha – Part 1: The Arrival And thus Handan and I began three months of illegal cohabitation in Doha, Qatar, though at the time, we thought our stay there would exceed two years. The project that Handan was hired to work on, and the reason we were in Doha, was called The Pearl Qatar. Here…
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I don’t wear a lot of jewelry, but the pieces I do wear generally stay on me no matter what I am doing: working, gardening, crafting, painting, et cetera. Keeping my rings on at all times exposes them to all sorts of dirt and dust, as I don’t like wearing gloves, not even when gardening. As a result, the stones…
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I have avoided pot roast my entire adult life. I have never ordered it in a restaurant and had never cooked it. In the grocery store, my eyes would slide past the proffered roasts without a conscious thought. It’s not so much that I was choosing against pot roast, but more like pot roast didn’t exist for me, my eyes…
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At some point in the not-too-distant past, the word “veneer” became synonymous with “crap” in the minds of most Americans. It’s not hard to understand why. Just go to any national furniture chain today and look at all the shiny junk they’re hawking: cheap wood (or plastic) veneers over even cheaper wood (or particleboard) frames. It wasn’t always like this though. Veneer…
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Our house has been filled with holiday chaos for the past two weeks. First I was trying to get the tree ready, then the house decorations, then the shopping and wrapping…then more shopping and wrapping. I was a hyperactive elf these past two weeks! Okay, maybe all year ’round I’m a hyperactive elf, but really…watching me working my way through…
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Image transfer to fabric is a breeze with heat transfer paper! Learn how to use iron on transfer paper for quick & easy image transfers to fabric. When I first started crafting, image transfer to fabric gave me a lot of difficulty. Although I had success with several methods I found online, I still thought it was such a hassle…
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I love this time of year! I call it “The Official Christmas Carol” season, because every year right after Thanksgiving, we start a ‘Christmas Carol Marathon’ in our home. Every day we listen to carols for at least 3-4 hours, and on the weekends it goes on all day long! Whaaat??? Well, for me there is no stress a cheerful…
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This gorgeous JOY wreath was inspired by a Ballard Designs. Learn how to make this DIY lighted Christmas wreath for your home! Crafting is my joy, but I only started after we moved to the States in 2013 (back to the States for my hubby, but first time for me). But to be honest, my first year crafting wasn’t very…
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