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My life, as Amelia Edwards once said, is the "satisfaction of a purposeless curiosity."

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Category Archives: sewing

WHY DON’T YOU? #194

January 28, 2019by Benjamin Phillips 2 Comments

Monday: Why don’t you learn how to sew and fix your own clothing? I had the most annoying thing happen that always happens. I found a pair of pants that […]

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Why Don’t You? #79

September 28, 2015by Benjamin Phillips Leave a comment

Monday: Why don’t you begin planning out your garden for next year? Once you’ve pulled all the dead flowers, squashes, failed stalks of corn, and planted your autumn salad patch, […]

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advice, clothes, Diana Vreeland, fashion, garden, sewing, suggestion, Why Don't You?

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"If you don't do it, you won't have done it." --Patsy Stone

"Things are fine, and life is fine. And life is so much fun. It’s one big movie." --Joan Rivers

"Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful — a mélange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?" --Diana Vreeland

“My only ambition in life is to wear size 28 jeans.” --Karl Lagerfeld

"Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed; remember you can go anywhere." --Joanna Lumley

"Only the shallow know themselves." --Oscar Wilde

"I know of a cure for everything: salt water--sweat, or tears, or the salt sea." --Isak Dinesen

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