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Jolene on January 6th, 2011

I’m sure I’ve said it enough times and will continue to do so until the situation improves considerably, but our house is a midden.  Not only does is suffer from many many many years of neglect and bodged jobs (like that time the previous owner made a massive hole in the exterior wall and failed [...]

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Jolene on January 5th, 2011

Happy New Year to one and all.  Here we are just a few days ago looking happy and optimistic for the year ahead. When we left you we’d finished our last craft fair of the year.  After this we went into something of an inspiration meltdown and there we have remained for the past month.  [...]

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Alasdair on July 26th, 2010

It’s said that, ‘adversity is the mother of all ingenuity’, and when the small town of Inakadate (pronounced ee-NAH-kah-dah-tay) fell upon hard times that certainly seemed to be the case.  Struggling with a lack of industry and a public debt of more than three times it’s annual budget the town looked towards tourism as a [...]

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Jolene on May 9th, 2010

A very quick update today to let you know about a number of great things I’ve come across recently…never let it be said that I don’t share. Firstly, Feeling Stitchy is having a ‘Rainbow of Stitches’ contest that I think is well worth entering.  The contest is very briefly as follows: – Join the group [...]

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