Monthly Archives: January 2012

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Great Find: Welcome to our Farmhouse, Life is Good … SOLD

Willie was doing a little sorting and organizing at the farm and …

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Great Find: Sheep to Shawl SOLD

Hand-spun, hand-dyed, and hand-knitted, this one-of-a-kind wool bolero jacket can be yours for only …

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You’ve Got Mail (from the U.K.)

A surprise package arrived this past week, coming all the way from the U.K. What does the group of women who made this stocking (Much Ado Books), firstbook.org, the island of Rota, and Captain James Arruda Henry have in common?

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Sugar and spice. And everything nice.

Sugar & spice & everything nice, etc. Remember the poem? It may sound fluffy by today’s standards, and one could argue that it has an air of gender-bias to it, but I believe the lyrical list of things “girls are made of” had its heart in the right place. Who cares if it …

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Literate Lobsterman

It’s hard to imagine there are people in the U.S. who cannot read. Where would you be today if you hadn’t slipped into The Secret Garden, tagged along on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, jaunted Around the World in 80 Days, or made yourself at home in The Little House on the Prairie? The books I’ve read have spirited me away on incredible journeys, paths I would never have been able to tread had I not been able to read.

Enter Captain James Arruda Henry …

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