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Brenda Dayne

Whatever happened to?

by Brenda Dayne on June 30, 2010

I flashed back to one of my former possessions today. My vintage sterling silver western saddle ring; a gift from my best friend, Katie, in junior high. A small but perfectly formed little silver saddle that sat on my finger, which featured hand tooled details, just like the leather on a real saddle, and a [...]

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Can I just say?

by Brenda Dayne on June 14, 2010

Setting up a new computer is a royal pain. It goes like this: Try to install zipped app, Winzip launches asking if you want to buy it, realize you don’t have anything installed that will unzip things, look for free unzipper, discover ALZip no longer free, remember something you read about essential Windows apps on [...]

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Episode 91: How to Be a Poet

by Brenda Dayne on May 28, 2010

We’re off into the woods looking for bracken, and answers to the deep philosophical questions of life that may be found in the stitches of an Alice Starmore sweater.

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With onions

by Brenda Dayne on May 23, 2010

I’ve a very full Sunday planned, and an even busier week ahead, so I thought I’d pop in and share this week’s M3 video with you a little earlier. This one’s from Etsy, and it’s about natural dyeing.
As you know, I have not had much in the way of success with natural dyes. Unless [...]

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Women who stare at cows

by Brenda Dayne on May 11, 2010

Simon, a retired policeman, and one of the four farmers down at the end of our lane, is our closest farming neighbour. Well, he used to be a farming neighbour. Now he’s just a neighbour.
Simon only ever kept cows, and he stopped keeping those a few years back when changes to Ministry of Agriculture [...]

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