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From Wil in the Netherlands, we have a lovely set of 4 Forest Quilties plus an extra one for me -thanks ever so much. Will has incorporated beautiful photos of forest mushrooms into her quilties, as well as leaves and leaf charms. The fabric colors and Wil's stitching is superb! I like the fibers on the edge too.

To the left is the front of one of Sue Lee's Forest quilties and the back of another one, with one of her handmade tags; click on any photo for a closer look! Sue's Forest Quilties just arrived the other day.

msnbc.msn.com Was growing 40 pounds a day at one point, wants to kill us all. A pampered pumpkinConnolly, who in 2000 was the first New England grower to tip the 1,000-pound mark for a pumpkin, gives his potential record-buster only the best of care.

[Photo by the Preggers Goldfish] Yall. Because of Universal Warming, the sun is getting brighter/hotter. Eventually, the sun will be able to burn through our corneas and possibly our retinas. This means that we are going to have to wear more Protective Technologies, like Shutter Shades, blind people glasses, and flickr blockrs.

“All that she wants is gossip, and she only likes me now because I supply it.”Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 31 Austen around the blogosphere for the week of September 21st ‘Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey’  begins on October 1st here at Austenprose, so start reading Northanger Abbey and gearing up for another great Austen novel event.

“All that she wants is gossip, and she only likes me now because I supply it.”Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 31 Austen around the blogosphere for the week of September 21st ‘Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey’  begins on October 1st here at Austenprose, so start reading Northanger Abbey and gearing up for another great Austen novel event.

It seemed pretty amazing to me that as soon as I sent the sunshine quiltie swap home (today) the first package for our shades of the forest quilties arrived. Wow! These gorgeous forest quilties are from Val Cowan in the UK, who is a new participant here with us on creative swaps.

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Carrot! Wortel! Carrot! And so goes this week’s plough for Peter Merrington’s Zebra Crossings, chugging over the many sources of positivity in its path. Margot Pakendorf puts the first wortel on the table. The second comes from Janet van Eeden, who is equally full of praise for Merrington and his writing, describing Zebra Crossings as “a lyrical love poem to Africa”.

Pickings! Three juicy ones for Zebra Crossings September 9th, 2008 by Sophy Carrot! Wortel! Carrot! And so goes this week’s plough for Peter Merrington’s Zebra Crossings, chugging over the many sources of positivity in its path. Margot Pakendorf puts the first wortel on the table.