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Forging a New Creative Identity

August 28, 2020 ShellyStokes

For the past three years, I’ve been on a nice, long time-out from my business. During that time, Jack and I bought a home, sold a home, and moved from the middle of Minnesota to the middle of Mexico. But more importantly, the break gave me time to forge a new creative identity. I needed […]

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Masks for Teletón Guadalajara

August 19, 2020 ShellyStokes

It started with a phone call. “Benjamin? It’s Becca in Chapala. I have a question. Are they going to need masks for Teletón when they re-open the hospital in Guadalajara?” Still in the midst of a mask-making project for adults, Becca thought the folks at Teletón might need 400 masks for the children in the […]

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Create a Habit in 3 Steps • Round 2

June 11, 2020 ShellyStokes

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When I wrote about this topic back in 2017, we were preparing to sell our house in Minnesota and my life was overly busy. Today, I have far too much unstructured time on my hands due to the Covid-19 pandemic and local stay-at-home orders. Thankfully, one strategy – to Create a Habit in 3 Steps […]

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Mask Maker’s Secret Weapon

May 1, 2020 ShellyStokes

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I’ve looked at (and completed) more fitted fabric face masks in the last few weeks than I care to think about. After stitching over hundreds (and hundreds) of bumpy, lumpy seams, I realized that a Mask Maker’s Secret Weapon was staring me right in the face. Well, not exactly staring at me. But only a […]

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Mask Making in Chapala

April 6, 2020 ShellyStokes

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With the Coronavirus turning our world upside down right before our eyes, my friend Becca Pohl and I decided it was time to stop talking and start working. Like so many other sewists in the world, we set up a small Mask Making operation in Chapala, Jalisco. We know that good quality (washable) masks will […]

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What’s up in your world?

March 19, 2020 ShellyStokes

I don’t know about you, but I’m finding this world a pretty strange place as the novel coronavirus upends our normal lives. Physically, my sweetheart and I are healthy and living in a pretty good place to weather the storm. Mentally, that’s another matter. (Although I’m sure I would do better if spent less time […]

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Working With Old Paintstiks

January 26, 2020 ShellyStokes

After far too much time in the computer over the past couple of months, I knew it was time to get back into the studio. What I didn’t know was that I would be getting a lesson in Working with Old Paintstiks. As I was preparing to put the “primer” coat on my next project. […]

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From House to Home

August 27, 2018 ShellyStokes

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When I purchased a house in Mexico, my “home” was still in Minnesota. With that house sold, I had to figure out how to get from House to Home here in Chapala. Jack and I debated long and hard about how much to ship from the US. It was far too expensive to “send it […]

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Keep Stitching

September 21, 2017 Jennifer Lutz

A few weeks ago, I wrote about my strategy for getting “back into the studio” with 20 minutes of stitching each day. When the universe saw fit to change my plans the past few weeks, I decided I needed to Keep Stitching! My “plan” to take part in the Silhouette Curio Intensive retreat turned into […]

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Create a Habit in 3 Simple Steps

August 31, 2017 Jennifer Lutz

With an excess of things to keep track of this summer, my Get In The Studio habit went to hell in a handbasket. That’s okay for a while, but eventually it makes me cranky. (And that’s definitely not okay!) Long story short, I needed to Create a Habit in order to get back to creating [...]

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Chipboard Rubbing Plates: Part 1

August 17, 2017 Jennifer Lutz

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In the last newsletter, I mentioned that my new Silhouette Curio machine had arrived. (Yay! I love new toys!) The Curio is designed to cut thicker materials, and I was chomping at the bit to see how it would do cutting custom Chipboard Rubbing Plates. In case you’re new here at Cedar Canyon, I love […]

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Seven Steps to Freedom from Idea Debt

August 3, 2017 ShellyStokes

In early 2016, I ran across a fabulous article about Idea Debt by Jessica Abel. It was one of those “whack on the side of the head” moments for me then – and is just as applicable today.  The essence of the article is that Too Much Thinking and Too Little Making is the perfect […]

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