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Yup...It's me! You're well, I hope? Somehow, I was doing well with stitching but not with blogging for a long time, but the past two months or so there has been not much stitching either. BUT! Today I randomly fired up Google Reader--which is sunsetting in just days *pours one out for Reader*--only to see this item headlining my updates-- New Prairie Schoolers!   These may be the three sweetest words I know--New... Prairie... Schoolers... And they are GREAT this time. Right? RIGHT? What do you think of them? You think they are great, right? ALL of them! Which has never really happened for me. Somehow, I like New PS Release even better than Market. I know! Crazy! But, somehow it became that way. Why are they great? • Shocked moon AND cracked-open orangey-lit door on brick house in the Mini Card! • Another Halloween Yearly Santa-sized card--with Prim Needle/BoAF-ish cats! • Lg. Halloween pattern: contains a small with wonderful kiddie revelers. • Christmas Orn

Notice: In retrospect; I almost can't recommend reading the content in the following blog post; Perhaps you ought to consider simply enjoying the pictures?  ~* Astonishingly, and for various reasons perhaps not interesting to enumerate here, I've begun stitching on BBD's Mystery Sampler again. The idea is stitching as therapy in between finishing the I-did-not-realize-it-was-this-numerous pile of smalls I've accumulated. It is an entity large enough to require a name--perhaps "Legion, for it is many". I don't even know how many. Contemplating finding out, though... I want to catalogue the progress in small increments; I want to see how amazed I can be by progress pics. Isn't that green nice? Recently, I've received some wonderful foods from friends. My very good friend, Jen, who amazingly runs her family's restaurant, but rarely cooks, prepared this Lebanese desert for me for my birthday/Christmas. It's kanafeh , and boy was it wonderful. I