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Year: 2009

  • cheap stuff | craft | homemaking | photography | ttv photo

    Handmade Ornaments

    Bymichelle December 11, 2009July 27, 2022

    This is an easy Christmas craft I like to do with the kids or our Sunday School class. I just scour the city park for little fallen burrs off of…

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  • cheap stuff | thinking out loud

    The Whitest of Elephants

    Bymichelle December 11, 2009July 27, 2022

    I love white elephant parties, maybe because I have so much that’s white elephant worthy in my home. I have a tendency to keep terrible and/or useless things because they…

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  • animals | cheap stuff | places

    I Do Not Like the Coat of Shame.

    Bymichelle December 7, 2009July 27, 2022

    We went to our town’s Christmas parade to see our daughter march and thought I’d try a training technique on Spotticus that the Dog Whisperer sometimes uses. Yeah, I know,…

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  • animals | cheap stuff | my home | new to me

    A Feral Christmas

    Bymichelle December 6, 2009July 27, 2022

    He was once an emaciated tom with a huge fluffy head (hence the name “Brain.”) Though he’s not succumbed to my cat whisperings yet, he has started taking his meals…

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  • music | my home

    Christmas at Our House

    Bymichelle December 5, 2009

    This is what we’re listening to.

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  • craft | soap

    Christmas Soap

    Bymichelle December 3, 2009July 27, 2022

    This is my contribution to the Christmas Fund. The Pumpkin Soap turned out alright and suds up really well. There’s also the last of the Calendula, rosemary Gardener’s Soap, True…

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  • photography | thinking out loud

    Self Portraits

    Bymichelle November 28, 2009July 27, 2022

    Getting comfortable with me in my thirties.

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  • martial arts | new to me

    Twisting the Night Away (I Know, That’s So Cornball)

    Bymichelle November 26, 2009July 27, 2022

    So, I had a lot of fun watching that tkd video clip on imovie, running it backward and breaking it into goofy stills; but in the process, I saw this…

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  • martial arts | new to me

    Got It!

    Bymichelle November 26, 2009July 27, 2022

    I am proof that if you want to do something, no matter your age, you can to some degree. A K-kick.

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  • droids | homemaking | photography | thinking out loud

    I Love My Children

    Bymichelle November 23, 2009July 27, 2022

    Spent the whole weekend loving on my children and thinking about the great people God made them to be. Thought I would share.

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