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  wanted to put the Christmas cards I made this year into my online scrapbook. I bought matt brown card blanks with envelopes from paperchase, then made a six pointed star template of holes to get the snowflake shape when embroidered with crochet cotton. I was quite pleased with the effect.

hile digging out the photo I found this snap of an early Christmas present to myself. The stitch patterns are genuinely intriguing and I'm excited about having a bash. Need to pack off a few more FOs first though.

my new favourite blog

rawn! The illustrating and cartooning blog. This brilliant portal has already provided me with my new favourite toy, odosketch and a highly amusing 'toon based on the quintessential jam making song (which has been sung in this house quite often of late for obvious reasons).

ven more delights though - yesterday featured the video for the Department of Eagles "No one does it like you". Produced by the Directors Bureau, directed by Patrick Daughters and Marcel Dzama, and featuring costumes and sets designed by Dzama. This is so cool I've even gone to the trouble of embedding it.

my new spiritual home is going straight to the 'inspiration' links on the right ---->

nd incase you were wondering, the brilliant drop caps were also found through Drawn, and are from Jessica Hische's site dailydropcap.com Sadly the drop caps aren't looking quite as sexy as they could because of my mini paragraphs. Let's stick a bit of something extra on the end to improve the aesthetics of this last one. Quisque suscipit congue neque id adipiscing. Vivamus ornare nisl id lacus egestas quis varius dolor vehicula. Cras ac lacus in massa sagittis sollicitudin quis in lorem. Aliquam et diam ac massa convallis tincidunt. Aenean convallis consequat tincidunt. Vestibulum lobortis, nibh at sodales eleifend, nunc lorem sodales arcu, sit amet sodales diam felis ac nisl. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. In arcu ante, adipiscing nec pharetra ut, cursus vitae lorem. Nam eget mauris eget neque sagittis vulputate. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Donec diam enim, pretium iaculis elementum id, faucibus non lacus.

waiting for jam...

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