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Continue reading →: handmade holiday gift ideas
It’s that time of the year again: time to get your holiday shopping done! I put together this Etsy treasury full of lovely handmade gift ideas for the special people on your list. Check it out and consider supporting local artists in your area this holiday season by buying something…
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Continue reading →: last show of the year
Alas, November has come and gone without a single post until today! It was quite a busy month with travels and a one-year-old’s birthday celebration. And although it’s quite last minute, here is info on my last show of the year taking place tomorrow (Saturday), December 1st in Newton, MA.…
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Continue reading →: trick-or-treat
Somehow the concept that Halloween was around the corner didn’t fully dawn on me until the day before when I realized that I still had no candy to hand out to trick-or-treaters. I made a trip to Target and joined a dozen other people scurrying around to find the best…
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Continue reading →: greeting cards :: 4 new designs
I’ll be at the Arlington Open Studios event this Sunday (10/14) so I’ve been busy trying to come up with new greeting card designs. Here are just four that I’ve created over the past month or so, and I couldn’t have done it without my dear husband’s help and support!…
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Continue reading →: butternut squash lasagna rolls (a recipe)
Here’s another recipe based on one I saw on Pinterest for butternut squash lasagna rolls. It was actually a lot of work (to be quite honest) to put together but it was a really delicious dish that would be enough to feed four people for dinner, so totally worth making…
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Continue reading →: cupcake favors
Now that I’m a mom, I find that I meet other moms in all sorts of places. I happened to meet a woman at an Isis maternity store right about when our daughter was seven months old: she was in line ahead of me returning something and in the meantime I…
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Continue reading →: cards at gather here
I’m happy to announce that you can now purchase some of my craft themed greeting cards at Gather Here in Cambridge, MA! Here are just two of the many designs sitting pretty in a red spinning card rack near the register. Ideal for popping a GH gift card into, the…
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Continue reading →: firebrand saints (cambridge)
I met up with a friend for a lunch outing last week (the blogosphere knows her as Juniper Disco). We both wanted to check out a new place, and I came across Firebrand Saints after doing a search on Google maps for restaurants in the Kendall Square area. Neither of…
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Continue reading →: oatmeal maple scones
I’m a *big* fan of Joanne Chang‘s Flour bakeries, there’s no doubt about it and if you’ve been reading my blog for a while now you probably just said “no sh*t!” out loud. [LOL] When her cookbook came out, I attended a couple of book signing events where she demo’d…
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Continue reading →: coda (south boston)
This is a late post about celebrating my husband’s birthday this year at Coda in Boston. (Trying to play catch up here, folks!) My husband thought that I forgot his birthday this year because I didn’t wish him a happy one the whole day until we arrived at the restaurant.…
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I’m Candice
I’m always busy working on some sort of crafting project whether it is knitting, card making, or scrapbooking. I’m a dog mom that loves to bake, take pictures, and read really good mystery novels. Thanks for checking out my creations and reviews – let’s get crafty!
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