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   Mar 29

1,000 Ways to Be a Slightly Better Woman: How to Be Thinner, Richer, Sexier, Kinder, Saner and Happier Enough (Paperback)

Perfection. It’s what we’re all aiming for, right? Doesn’t every woman want to fit—easily!—into a size 6 dress? To be a lioness in the boardroom and a tigress in bed? To be a totally dedicated wife, mother, daughter, coworker, and friend? To eat healthy, get rich, wear fabulous clothes, and, while she’s at it, save [...]

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   Mar 19

Yard Sale Finds: My great iron!

I just had to share, I got this great iron at a yard sale last year for $2.  After using it I have to say that it’s worth full price!  My Rowenta runs smooth as silk, has a good weight to it, goes around buttons easily, has easy to read settings, has awesome steam, doesn’t [...]

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   Mar 16

My Love Affair With Ebooks

For those of you who don’t know, I am an avid reader and not just what you’d find at the local bookstore either.  I adore Ebooks because though you can with hours of research google til your heart’s content find a project for free usually,  that’s just it, you’re spending hours looking for something instead [...]

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   Mar 11

Machine Knitting Bond Style

Some people like it, some people don’t, not to be rude but I think most people in the don’t category don’t give it a proper chance and I’ll be happy if you live in the Jacksonville, Florida area to give you free instruction on how to get started properly, remember crawl before we walk no [...]

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   Mar 10

Why I love PaperBackSwap (free craft books anyone?)

In case you haven’t heard, in case you haven’t been there, in case you’re wondering what I’m talking about; I want to tell you why I love PaperBackSwap.com because I have saved literally Hundreds of dollars on wonderful books.  I have received books from all over in fact they have a map in your account [...]

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   Mar 09

Recycled Crafts Box

For those who love to craft with their kiddos I thought I would point this book out From School Library Journal Grade 1-6–From its cover with raised letters that look as though they are made of various recycled materials to the helpful back matter (including a list of books and Web sites on recycling), this [...]

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   Mar 01

“Make It Yourself”: Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture

As I’ve been flitting about the web to and fro planning stages for the new and improved TheManicCrafter.com I ran across a book called “Make It Yourself”: Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture 1890-1930 over at Gutenberg<e> and while usually I’m a novel reader this book fell into a personal reading category I like to call [...]

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