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		<title>Do You Believe in Fairy Tales?</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/12/16/do-you-believe-in-fairy-tales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a child, occasionally my mother would bring out an oversized book that was loaded with the most beautiful and mysterious-looking art work I had ever seen at that tender age. The book&#8217;s name was simply The Fairy Tale Book. My mother safeguarded it by keeping it in her bedroom on the lower shelves of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October 28, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Grace and &#8220;Patty&#8221; Grace on one Christmas Day in the 1960s at our parents&#8217; farm. The date &#8220;October 28&#8243; weighs heavy on my heart. In 1944, my older brother Steve was born. He was closest in age to me in a family of four children. I can&#8217;t believe that it is 17 years ago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fall Vacation</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/10/07/fall-vacation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October is really the best month of the year! For us, it is vacation time! The children are back in school making shopping a more pleasant experience for us old folks who no longer have small children at home and have come to enjoy peace and quiet! The foliage in New Hampshire, while not at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Time for Every Season Under Heaven</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/09/10/a-time-for-every-season-under-heaven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, I am thinking of the song, &#8220;Turn, Turn, Turn&#8221; made famous by the Bryds and based on a Biblical passage that includes the words &#8220;A time for every season under heaven.&#8221; We all go through transitions in our personal lives. The most obvious change is that we grow from innocent children into experienced adults. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final Letter from Mom</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/09/05/final-letter-from-mom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t like to read tragic, heart wrenching stories, turn your attention to some other matter&#8230; now! This post is about Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease. It isn&#8217;t just a random ailment. It wears a face. That face could be that of your grandmother, your mother, or some other loved one who leaves you to pick up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Years Old and Ready for Fun: A Reminiscence</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/09/03/five-years-old-and-ready-for-fun-a-reminiscence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Supposedly, children have no memory of anything much before the age of reason, seven years old, or so I have been told. That does not seem to be true with me as I vividly recall my mother teaching me to embroider when I was only five. She simply drew an outline of a bear on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts of &#8220;Mother&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/08/15/thoughts-of-mother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I woke up this morning, Jim asked what I wanted to do today. I said, &#8220;What I&#8217;d really like to do is to go see Mother and enjoy a piece of her delicious apple pie.&#8221; He said, &#8220;What?&#8221; He knows that my mom passed about six years ago now and that was not a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Chicken Ran Through It&#8221; Soup Recipe</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/08/14/the-chicken-ran-through-it-soup-recipe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I had a craving for homemade chicken soup but was not sure of the ingredients on hand, as Jim always does the food shopping. I looked around the cupboard, the refrigerator and the freezer and this is the recipe I concocted. The &#8220;Chicken Ran Through It&#8221; Soup Recipe 3 cans chicken soup broth 1 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Ration of Rum</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/08/09/a-little-ration-of-rum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This little essay is an historical view on the subject of drinking alcohol. This week, my dear husband revealed that there were more deaths from tainted water during the Civil War than the Revolutionary War. Why? During the earlier war, the soldiers were given a ration of rum that was added directly to their drinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Queen of Obscure Facts about the Civil War</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/08/07/queen-of-obscure-facts-about-the-civil-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 03:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t ask me to tell you about the sequence of Civil War battles, the different names that the North and the South assigned to the same battles, or military strategies. I&#8217;d be completely lost. A phobia of memorizing that kind of information prevented me from ever thinking about being a history major in college days. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Civil War Era&#8221; Quilt</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/08/04/civil-war-era-quilt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I spotted a tag on a quilt in an antique shop that said &#8220;Civil War Era&#8221; quilt. I would love to know more about this quilt: where it has been, how it was damaged, and who made it. Alas, once a quilt gets sold in an estate sale or abused for awhile before being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Handle Complaints about Your Work</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/08/03/how-to-handle-complaints-about-your-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At one time or another, it is likely that any of us may be criticized for something we have done. In business, the saying goes, &#8220;If you like what we do, please tell your friends; if you don&#8217;t like what we do, then please tell US.&#8221; Feedback can be very valuable and can result in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I Have a Little Shadow&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/07/25/i-have-a-little-shadow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hollyhock with dew, photo by James Cummings Ostensibly, one of the requirements for passing third grade in elementary school was to memorize poetry. To this day, I recall the poem &#8220;My Shadow&#8221; by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) that is included in A Child&#8217;s Garden of Verse published in 1913. Here are the verses: I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you a Tree Hugger?</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/07/22/are-you-a-tree-hugger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am so happy to live in New Hampshire. I do not have to look far to see trees. Oh yes, I remember the Joshua trees of the high desert in California and I remember the olive trees of sunny southern Spain, but I&#8217;m talking about major land areas where there is virtually nothing but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egyptian Wall Quilt Holds Mysteries</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/07/16/egyptian-wall-quilt-holds-mysteries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A wall quilt from Egypt When one buys anything online, there is always some risk involved. The descriptions by sellers, particularly in online auctions, and especially those who are selling textiles, leave a lot to be desired. Approach buying anything with a &#8220;Buyer Beware&#8221; attitude. I really like the design on the Egyptian wall quilt [...]]]></description>
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