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Photo Lighting (and how to use your camera)

Dark and dreary days have arrived and waiting for sunlight to take photos cuts into my productivity. I often work late at night or at least late into the evening and that doesn’t work when the good light is gone by noon. I thought about ordering cheap photo lights but they come on huge stands more »

Where to buy hardware and some links to share!

I have a bunch of links to share with you today! If this paragraph starts sounding like gibberish, just skip it and move down the page! This post was supposed to go up sooner, but my hard drive ran out of space and we had to replace it, which is no easy task with an more »

Site re-design and a pattern shop!

Hi everyone! I’m sorry if any of you using RSS readers got a bunch of my old posts. The feed hiccuped when we refreshed the site with the new design: I’ve had a crazy weekend, as you can see… the site re-design is complete! Thanks to WordPress (and some help from Ken, of course) I was able more »

My new Flickr! Group and some Google Analytics

Several of you have sent me pictures of your cute little puppies in the harnesses that you have made (thank you! I love seeing them) so I set up a Flickr! group. I realize not everyone uses Flickr! but it’s free and it’s a great way to share photos. If you’re a member, please head more »

Enlarging and Reducing PDF Patterns

Enlarging, reducing and modifying PDF patterns is a good skill to have. You should be able to adapt a pattern to work for you! I am always adding a pocket or changing the strap length, and I don’t think anyone should be afraid to modify a pattern! If you are unsure about it, try making more »

Mac Gourmet

I spent an entire weekend day reorganizing my cookbooks. Well, actually all of our books. I donated several that I never use to the library used book sale. I mostly use this binder I have full of Alton Brown and America’s Test Kitchen recipes. I sorted through them all and organized them. Meanwhile, Ken was more »