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New Projects for 2024

By: Lynda January 1, 2024January 1, 2024

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Happy New Year! This year I decided to make a visual 2024 to-do list via my blog. A couple are due this month!

Denim Totes Completed

By: Lynda December 29, 2023December 29, 2023

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As I mentioned earlier, I was given jeans from a friend, Barbara, whose husband was ill and has lost weight. I’ve used these jeans in several project including that fabric book I made last month. Her husband recently died, and she asked me to make a couple totes for her girls with the jeans and…

2023 Christmas Ornaments

By: Lynda December 25, 2023December 25, 2023

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Happy Holidays!

Readers Favorite Posts 2023

By: Lynda December 19, 2023

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I love looking back to see what were the most favorite posts with readers over the past year. Here are the top five from 2023. Links to the posts are in the titles.

My Fabric Book – Finally!!

By: Lynda December 9, 2023December 9, 2023

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After so many changes, my fabric book is finally finished! Yipee!

Fabric Book Update

By: Lynda December 5, 2023December 5, 2023

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For those of you following my fabric book journey, I wanted you to see my progress. Now it was time to start working on the spreads.

Fabric Book Continuing Progress

By: Lynda November 12, 2023

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Since my last post, I’ve pretty much changed my mind about almost everything!! Before I get into that, here are a couple embellishments I made for the pages. These irises I’ve made before and you can find my tutorial here. They will go on my spread about planting the iris beds. I also made some…

Slow Progress

By: Lynda October 31, 2023

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I remember years ago when I first started my blog as Bloom Bake Create, I ran into one of my blog follower at our local JoAnns. I was surprised because I didn’t know her, and really had no idea I had people locally following my blog. She complimented me on my blog post and was…

Making New Leaf Prints

By: Lynda October 22, 2023

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We recently returned from a wonderful trip to Alabama. While there I picked up some leaves. I want to create something to remember this visit, so I made some new leaf prints. To start I needed to preserve the leaves. For information on preserving leaves and other botanicals check out this blog post.