Over the weeekend I framed the needlepoint barn.
I found the frame in my parents’ basement when I cleaned out the house. I think dad made it, but no way to know. It must have sat there for decades because I had to scrub it four times to get it clean.
It looked a little rough, so I gave it a coat of a stain/polyeurethane combo product. It cleaned up better than I thought it would.
That’s one more project off the bed of shame.
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Many years ago I worked at a girls’ boarding school as a Boarding Mistress and English Tutor – it was a lovely job that I worked at from when I was a university student the first time around to just before we left Brisbane for Melbourne. My years there gave me a whole new look at the different ways people live and I met so many lovely people from all over the world, and especially from the remote outback of Australia. We had girls who came to the city from huge properties out west, who had not only never experienced city ...
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