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Monthly Archives: December 2011

Homemade gifts

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

I did two homemade gifts this year, which is about my normal. All of my immediate family members have enough stuff from me at this point that I don’t feel compelled to make something for everyone, but I do like making stuff, so a couple of things for other people snuck into the rotation. 1. [...]

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On balance. And cleaning out cabinets.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

I recently sent someone a link to Gretchen Rubin‘s post on what she calls “spending out,” the idea of using your good stuff instead of saving it for some mythical future time and thereby wasting your most valued ideas and possessions. To me, this means wearing the gorgeous boots, even though I’ll scuff them up, [...]

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Turbans

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Last winter, a friend emailed a link to this gorgeous cashmere turban and suggested I knit one. I tried, but I had a really, really hard time reverse engineering it. There are a lot of elements in the mix; the bottom edge is clearly shaped and there’s a seam at the center back and the [...]

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Paper Christmas Tree

Friday, December 2, 2011

You guys, I have to tell you, I’m feeling kind of festive this year. I haven’t had anything resembling a tree since about 1999, which was the year of The Christmas Branch, a pine branch I put in a vase and on which I hung a single ornament, ever so late ’90s Generation Nowhere irony [...]

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