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May 22, 2012
Yes, it's been a while - PSL and a busy life intervened - but I'm back (for now, at least!). This week's WC challenge, Black and White, had several potential directions in which to go, but after a little thought I decided to choose some baby pictures from my first months of life and tell a little story about them:
I was born in 1953, 9 weeks early. Babies that small usually didn't live to come
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Feb 21, 2012
I've had a lot of pets over the years: dogs, a cat, birds, fish, a hamster or two - but currently, our home is a pet-free zone. I'm of the belief that pet ownership is a lot like parenting. It's all well and good when you see the cute little babies, but the real experience requires work and commitment and dedication, love, sacrifice and a good deal of time and attention. At this point in our
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Feb 13, 2012
How convenient that this week's challenge is something I wanted to be sure to include in my Gratitude Journal: by darling husband, Karl, for whom I am eternally, blissfully grateful.
We met in college, were friends first, then - well, we became Valentines. Faced with no money and February 14th looming, I cut a silly cartoon out of the Sunday paper and slapped it on construction paper. I scrawled
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Feb 06, 2012
Well, now, that's an easy one! My friends ROCK!
It's unusual to get a photo of my two besties together, but I actually found one from last year so I used that:
That's me on the left, my pal Linda in the middle, my best friend Leah on the right. I admit we wouldn't win any contests for glamour - we were about two-thirds through an all-day crop - but I wanted a picture anyway because it's hard to
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Feb 01, 2012
I had to think about this one a little; there were several ways to approach the subject of our challenge prompt. Following my theme of "Gratitude" I decided to document a time when a traumatic event changed my perspective on life and gave me a completely different point of view. I am certainly grateful for that!
In 1981 we moved from New York to Pennsylvania, a relocation prompted not by
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Jan 24, 2012
Bet you thought it was the scrapping studio, right? Well, I spend a lot of time there and I do love all the goodies but without a doubt, this is my favorite room:
A few years ago after visiting Julia Child's kitchen at the Smithsonian, inspiration whacked me over the head: if Julia could make her kitchen fit a tall woman, I could make mine fit a short woman who should have been born in 1935,
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Jan 19, 2012
Well, if you looked out my windows right now you'd just see dirt and dormant plants. Not too picturesque, certainly. If only it was May...
...but it's January, and I'm a woman on a mission: find something for which I am grateful, and tie it to this theme. Unfinished patio project? Ummm... no. I will be grateful for the patio stones when they arrive in the spring, however. Blank wall of house
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Jan 12, 2012
Farley, did it have to be a rosette challenge? I love those little stinkers, so I had to play along; but one drawback: they're little. My Tim Holtz die makes 2" rosettes. IMHO it was time to make a BIG rosette and a link shared on the challenge thread was all the incentive I needed to try. Here's the result:
There were a few tricky parts in the construction of Big Mama Rosette so I thought I'd
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Jan 10, 2012
Seems to me a Gratitude Journal is all about reflection, so I shouldn't have had a tough time with this challenge topic, but I admit I foundered for a while. And then, I looked up from the laptop and saw this:
My beloved Victorian gazing ball. It doesn't get more reflective than that! I bought it 20 years ago when they came back into fashion; as a child I was fascinated by one in a neighbor's
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Jan 09, 2012
The challenge prompt for week one was "Resolution". Well, I don't make New Years Resolutions - I never keep them anyway - but in mulling the subject over and looking for a way to tie this into my Gratitude Journal, I remembered The Ultimate Resolution: our 10-year plan to get out of debt.
In 2004, after a sudden job loss ruined our finances, we were desperate to regain control. The 10-year plan
