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Featured Blog: “Spot-On Weather from a Team You can Trust”

By Anne

It's Featured Blog Day! Once again, I've strayed from the rosary and/or crafts arena. I've been getting my weather from the folks at Channel 13 for yonks now. I supplement their coverage with a great Weather Channel app for my iPhone. However (comma), they really missed the boat this past weekend. We were supposed to either miss the snowstorm entirely and just have cloudy skies, or we were supposed to get a little dusting, with most of the bad stuff hitting down south. Well, we knew that was wrong when Greg went outside on Saturday afternoon and shoveled about 6" of little dusting off the front walk. Enter Mr. Foot and his team of student stormcasters, some of whom are over at the high school in Dundalk. These guys seem to be really passionate about the weather, and it shows! Their prognostications for the past couple of storms have been right on track, and they consistently beat the local newspaper, the local TV weathermen, and even the biggies like AccuWeather. They have a blog, and I'm here to tell you, it makes for interesting reading. In fact, I've picked up their blog feed and have become a fan of their Facebook page.... »

A Useful Bag. To Keep Things In.

By Anne

Yes, it's "Well Shopped" day. I'm looking for ways to haul freight around. Having convinced myself that I should begin avoiding the grocery-store plastic, I've assembled a motley collection of freebie re-useable bags in purple, shocking pink, and green--all with huge advertisements. I didn't have to travel far to find some much more attractive grocery alternatives. They're to be found in the Etsy shop of BEST's own Glowgirl, otherwise known as Deb. Just look at this handsome, enormous green bag she's come up with: It's made of upholstery fabric and has enough capacity... »

The Rosarymaker’s Hints: February Amethysts

By Anne

Anglican Rosary

Such a bug I have had! It's been a three-week adventure which seems finally to have been resolved by an antibiotic and a couple of days of rest. I'm looking forward to getting back to the regular posting schedule I started last month. Since it's the first of the month, we'll work on a birthstone rosary. February is the perfect month for amethyst rosaries. Not only is it the February birthstone, but it's also certainly a Lenten color, and Lent usually begins in February. The word amethyst means “not drunken,” and it was thought ... »

The News from Haiti is Not Good

By Anne

A Facebook friend, Louie Crew, has received the following note from an associate in Haiti: Dear Friends in Christ: We have devastating news to share with you from Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake yesterday. According to reports I have received here in Les Cayes, the damage in Port au Prince and areas around it is terrible. There is no Cathedral. The... »

The Rosarymaker’s Hints: The Ultimate Little Boxes

By Anne

I am the queen of disorganization. I have a beautiful studio on the top floor of our row house, and I abandoned it in July because of the heat. I'm still working down here at the kitchen table, even though I'm now officially freezing, and I have to use an electric space heater. Over the years, I've acquired a lot of... »

Second Saturday: Annunciations

By Anne

Our new posting schedule, which I will (ahem) post shortly, calls for Big Announcements on the second Saturday of the month. I have one or two, or a few. IT'S AN EARLY, BUT GREAT DAY FOR THE IRISH St. Patrick's Day is still two months off, but I don't want to hold off on this. I am so happy to announce that... »

Bear with me, y’all

By Anne

The move is an accomplished fact, and what's more, it was accomplished in about a half hour's time with very little hassle. That doesn't include the time it took for me to import the database one table at a time. I did that because I wanted to keep an eye out for evidence of rats--or other nasty critters who seem... »

Announcing!! Announcing!!

By Anne

Tomorrow is Thursday, and I'm supposed to be writing about Spencer-the-Beagle. Instead, I'll be migrating The Rosary Studio to a new webspace. Please visit us again Friday for the "new and improved" Rosary... »

This Week’s Blog: Baker’s Banter

By Anne

I can hear everybody out there saying the same thing: Here she goes and sets up a blog feature, and the first blog she features is a commercial one. Eeuwh. Well, bear with me. I'll be looking at a lot of craftier blogs to be sure. But we just wound down Christmas yesterday (today is Epiphany), and I'm still basking in... »

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