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December 5, 2025
Weekly update: a snowy end to November from With Strings Attached

 


The boys are back! 

The nutcracker collection began with a gift from my mother shortly after we were married.  She gave us two or three more.   I've acquired the rest at TJ Maxx, estate/rummage/garage sales, and thrift shops.   They're all German.  

I made Good Cheer in 2013 from swap blocks.


The rest of the nutcrackers are providing a backup chorus for the Christmas tree.








Just as forecast, it began snowing at noon Saturday and continued all night long.  This was the view from the front door this morning.  9" accumulation.  

I shoveled the front stoop and ...

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added by Nann 4 months, 1 week ago. under design wall monday , monday musings , nutcrackers , oh scrap! , omg 2025 , scrap quilts , sew and tell , stash report , top-along , weekly update
December 19, 2023
Weekly update: tragedy, triumph, estate sale delights, and Indigo Way from With Strings Attached


 Look at the upper left of the photo.  That dot is a bald eagle.  He's got his eye on a disabled duck in the lake.   Gulls were doing their part to chase the eagle off.  [Taken after the Friday estate sale.]

I was going to post on Wednesday. I was going to post on Friday.  But things happen.

To make a long story short, I've been figuring out how to adapt the household layout to S's limited mobility and particularly to his advancing dementia.  He wrenched his knee last week so going down to the basement family ...

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added by Nann 2 years, 3 months ago. under design wall monday , estate sale , indigo way , mystery quilt , nutcrackers , oh scrap! , quiltville , sew and tell
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