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Archive for July, 2008

UPDATE: Free cross-stitch patterns are no longer available on MyCraftivity.com.
This is very late notice, so don’t delay if you’re interested in this week’s free cross stitch pattern at MyCraftivity. You’ll find a very nice flower garden alphabet chart that would be great for any number of uses.
Be sure to check back on Monday evening. I [...]

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UPDATE: Free cross-stitch patterns are no longer available on MyCraftivity.com.
I don’t always get around to blogging when I want to, so my reminders about the weekly free cross stitch pattern on MyCraftivity may not always be timely. Unless I’m on vacation or sick, the free project post should go up on the site in the [...]

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UPDATE: Free cross-stitch patterns are no longer available on MyCraftivity.com.
If you like to do cross-stitch and haven’t been checking out the free weekly projects at MyCraftivity, you’re missing out on a good thing. Be sure to visit and download this week’s chart — it contains a dozen or so charted motifs perfect for graduation, bon [...]

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After Monticello, we hit the Cracker Barrel for dinner, then cruised on into Lexington for the night. Diamondqueen got sick on her chicken fried steak (she always gets sick on anything fried and greasy, but does that stop her?) and had to leave me and the Hooligans at the hotel’s indoor pool where we took [...]

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There were two things Diamondqueen really wanted for herself out of our Virginia sojourn: to go to the Dooney & Bourke store at Prime Outlets in Williamsburg and to visit Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home. Since Charlottesville was along our return route to Lexington, where we were spending our last night on the road, Monticello was [...]

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We were all ready to go home by Sunday morning. We had a good time, but even the beach can wipe you out after awhile.

While Diamondqueen took a load of bags down to the car, I snapped a photo of the hippos and Dooney the cheetah on our room balcony. Funny, they didn’t look tired at [...]

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After spending several hours at the beach late Saturday afternoon with Diamondqueen and the Hooligans, with the smoky wind swirling and the waves the roughest we’d seen yet that week, I was ready for another meal like this one. We weren’t sure if the dining room downstairs would be crowded at that time on a [...]

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