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To everyone who has written to me in the last week or to those of you wondering why I haven’t posted…I’m sorry I haven’t been more available, but I’ll try to get to your emails and write some posts tomorrow. My schedule is such that I have been out of the house every night (after...
I just received a donation of these metal candle making moulds from Voyageur Soap & Candle, but we really can’t use them in craft group as they would take forever to harden. (We’re keeping the smaller ones, but the larger ones are really large, as you can see.) If you live near me – the...
I wrote about the “unauthorized access” (aka hacking) of our XBOX account a few weeks ago – here’s the update. After another phone call to XBOX, I found out that it can take up to FOUR TO SIX MONTHS to restore our account (meaning four to six months to return our points to us, to...
I’ve always enjoyed shopping local, and this year we’re shopping local even more often! (Please read this post for my good reasons to shop local as this is more about my frustrations about large companies!) Raymond and I realized that we’re pretty self-sufficient during that snow storm a few weeks ago, but we still need raw...
The morning after our last video games club – December 30th, 2011 – my husband turned on our Xbox to download some games for the next video game club. We purchased some awesomely on sale points over Christmas, and we thought it was time for a shopping spree. He couldn’t get into our account. He...