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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 17th, 2008
While on my latest trip, I was asked to help teach 3 young girls how to crochet simple “preemie hats” for a charity project in their area. It was a fairly simple task, however I’d never been asked to make hats for preemies before. Generally when I get involved “crocheted-ly” in a charity project, it’s […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 25th, 2008
Hubby and I busted out laughing in the truck earlier this evening. Someone driving in front of us appeared to be lost and stopped dead in the middle of the road, waving everyone to drive on past. As we skirted around them my daughter piped up and said, “Mommy, that car had Louisianna license plates! That’s […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 13th, 2008
My grandfather died two weeks ago and my life has been in a whirlwind as I run back and forth in and out of state to be of help to my grandmother (88) who is fighting cancer. So much of who I am is because of them, so I decided to honor Grandpa here with what I wrote and read […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 1st, 2008
I decided to post this piece from my website to my blog:
“That’s that new-fangled yarn!” “You can’t see your stitches!” These are the phrases both my grandmothers have used to describe the micro-fibers and unusual yarns, from around the world, that I specialize in. I grinned of course, and replied right back, “But Grandma, if […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 5th, 2007
OK guys, we gotta talk holiday plans!
No last minute orders this year! Our anniversary is Xmas weekend and John is not serving overseas, so we are not missing it!
To give my customers the best of customer service, I also limit the amount of custom orders per week. So if you need something for a […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 29th, 2007
(sigh….)
I am trying to post an update on the The Artist’s Market Blog information about our Gift Certificates! Which is so cool! Especially for the holiday season right now! If you can’t figure out what to give someone and you really want it to be an awesome gift, what could be better than a gift […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 9th, 2007
Well, as if I didn’t already have enough crushing deadlines to make as it is, I just took the plunge and decided to add one more thing to my plate. www.NaNoWriMo.org. National Novel Writing Month is held for the month of November and it’s all about cramming a novel output of 50,000 words into a […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 3rd, 2007
Welcome to Localartmarket.com! And welcome to the Pixie Worx! Blog. Seems there was some trouble trying to get my page up but hopefully it’ll be easy enough for everyone to find and make sense of! More photos and information can be found on my website at: www.PixieWorx.net.
Pixie Worx! is partially a mother-daughter effort. My daughter, who goes […]