stuff this

very cute tutorial on flickr
on how to make little stuffed bunnies by hand.

i would sew up the outside opening differently
and maybe use stiches for the face
but otherwise, very cute.

i used to make little stuffed bears and bunnies
out of scraps of material
when my daughter was a baby
and i had no money to buy toys.

then i used to make a lot of her clothes too.
sometimes also from remnants of material.
good thing the patched together hippie child look was fashionable
when she was a tot!

i stopped sewing sometime in the late 70's.
i could start up again though, you just never know.

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Cold War Kids - Hang Me Up To Dry

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i love this song!

thanks wuweibaby for the link.

money blog

good blog of articles and info
on financial planning and stuff like that...

i will teach you to be rich

i know, the name of the blog is kind of off-putting
but really it's a good blog.

i have a bunch of money blogs on my bloglines list
and this is just one that's more interesting to me
than the housewifey kind that are more focused on
nitpicky ways to be more frugal
that everyone already knows anyway.

like telling people to brown bag their lunch
or stop eating out so much.  well duh.

i don't work in an office
and i rarely eat out
and i don't own a house or car
and i don't have a brood of children.

anyway.
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yay for rachel

woohoo, rachel called me just now
and said she was offerred the job at the parks trust!

so in three weeks she will be out out of that bad situation
at the academy of sciences at long last,
since the last couple years have been hell there
even though the first few were great (long story).

so she gets to give them notice on her birthday monday, yay!

and in case i forget to run this on monday in honor of her 36th birthday
i should link to rachel's dove commerical video now
before i forget.

she made it or them about 3 or 4 years ago
and it ran on tv for a long time
but  anyway she looks about the same now
as she did back then.

on the inside though
she's much more mature now
life being what it is.

anyway, skip it if you've already seen it
or are not interested.

i only link to it on her birthday
because it's the only video i have of her!

i should make videos with my little canon pocketcam
but i never remember it can do that.

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