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Hi everyone - I'm Melissa, known as Measi online. I'm a married mom of one in her early 50s, owned by several cats, currently living in Rhode Island. I'm a cross-stitcher, journaler, penpaller, bookworm, Pagan, and gamer geek. This is my little corner of the Web.

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April 2024 WIPocalypse Check-in

Melissa
April 28, 2024April 28, 2024 No Comments

Hi everyone! Spring has definitely arrived and the annual Pollening has begun. Our maple trees started leaving out this week, leaving me in a bit of a sniffly mess. But springtime always makes me feel energized and happy as the world starts new growth everywhere. We still haven’t had the days where I can comfortably […]

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March 2024 WIPocalypse Check-In

Melissa
March 31, 2024March 31, 2024 2 Comments

Hi everyone! Happy Easter if you are among the faith celebrating today! Happy weekend if you are enjoying a normal end-of-March Sunday. I hope 2024 is treating you well so far. It’s a sunny day here in Rhode Island after what feels like tons of rain. While my family doesn’t celebrate Easter as a religious […]

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February 2024 WIPocalypse Check-In

Melissa
February 25, 2024February 25, 2024 No Comments

Hi everyone! It’s a sunny day here in Rhode Island – and very deceiving. It looks warm, but I know it’s not warm out there. There’s the earliest hint of springtime, though. The snow is melting. I’m seeing little hints of my day lilies popping through the earth, and the neighbor’s daffodils are already a […]

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January 2024 WIPocalypse Check-In

Melissa
January 28, 2024January 28, 2024 No Comments

Hi everyone! Happy end of January! It’s been a wild month here in the Measi household with flooding rains, multiple cars deciding they were at the end of their lifetimes, and winter illnesses that felt like they just didn’t want to give us up (but did, in fact, want to let us down…). I’m honestly […]

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WIPocalypse 2024 – Kickoff Post!

Melissa
January 7, 2024January 7, 2024 2 Comments

Hi everyone! 2024 has now commenced! Welcome to our 13th annual WIPocalypse stitch-a-long! I’m a believer in the positives of the number 13… so I’m focusing on the good luck that the year will bring. 🙂 May all of your needles fly quickly, and may you enjoy your crafty project work this year! I have […]

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December 2023 WIPocalypse Check-In

Melissa
December 31, 2023December 31, 2023 2 Comments

Hi everyone! And here we are… December 31st. Crazy how fast years fly – I swear each one goes faster than the last! I’m not sure whether that’s a good or a bad thing sometimes. I have one last project I want to try to fully finish today before the clock strikes midnight and the […]

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2024 WIPs List

Melissa
December 29, 2023December 29, 2024 No Comments

Current WIPs Note: Must have been started prior to 2024. Bolded means I have worked on them in 2024. Legacy/UFO Projects Note: These are projects, either started before 2013 or that I’ve adopted from others but have not yet stitched on personally, that are in a holding pattern – especially because I have too many […]

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2024 Southern Literature Reading Challenge

Melissa
December 25, 2023August 25, 2024 3 Comments

This challenge is to read books by Southern authors set largely in the American South. I expect this will be a library-based challenge on my end, given my general To Be Read list. Although I may surprise myself and find something among my owned pile. I am signing up for the Level 3 challenge – […]

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The Backlist Reader Challenge 2024

Melissa
December 25, 2023December 29, 2023 1 Comment

Adding a couple other challenges to my list to get through my To Be Read piles in the house. Between trips to the Book Barn and random Friends of the Library sales, I have a bit of a pile issue. 🙂 The Backlist Reader Challenge is for books that were published at LEAST a year […]

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TBR 24 in ’24 Challenge

Melissa
December 25, 2023December 25, 2023 1 Comment

I have a ton of books around my house to read thanks to multiple trips to the glorious Book Barn in Niantic, CT. Covid really did a number on my reading habit, and one of my goals for 2024 is to get back into reading. A couple reading challenges will definitely help me get back […]

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I'm turning 50 in 2025, and exploring this new decade of my life with a refocus on blogging about my life - marriage, parenthood, being owned by cats, Paganism, cross stitching, journaling, books, and letter writing... and probably some other stuff along the way. Nothing monetized here - just old-fashioned personal blogging.

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