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Month: May 2011

cheap stuff | garden | homemaking | my home | photography | thinking out loud | ttv photo

365 Days of Procrastination

Bymichelle May 31, 2011July 27, 2022

Well, it ends here.  I’m giving myself until mid July to finish the bigger, space stealing projects I have in various stages of completion.    We tend to have too…

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animals | knitting | photography

The Never Ending Knit

Bymichelle May 26, 2011July 27, 2022

This is it.  The Corona Camisol.  It’s meant to be loose fitted, but I think the model in the picture is pinning all the loose swaths of stockinette back with…

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family | photography | thinking out loud

The Girl

Bymichelle May 24, 2011July 27, 2022

You saw my favorite boy. Here’s my favorite girl who is barely a girl at all. But I can still see it. (after the show, day 135) I really love…

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family | photography | thinking out loud | ttv photo

The Boy

Bymichelle May 24, 2011July 27, 2022

Here’s my favorite boy who won’t be a boy for long.   (summer boy, day 133)  (mastermind, day 143) He’s making the most of it and I try to help….

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homemaking | photography

Homegrown Tomatoes

Bymichelle May 23, 2011May 16, 2023

They adorn kitchen windowsills across the country.  My favorite summer decoration. (homegrown tomatoes, day 137)

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garden | photography | thinking out loud

Produce

Bymichelle May 20, 2011July 27, 2022

That’s an order. I wish it were that easy.  Don’t get me wrong, considering the dry spring we’re having, this is the best I’ve ever done in my “little garden…

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bicycle | cheap stuff | diy | linkage | music | new to me | photography

How Very Collegiate of ME

Bymichelle May 19, 2011July 27, 2022

Remember me writing about the Schwinn Collegiate bicycles I got for myself and my daughter here and here?  How I was going to try to learn how to tune up a…

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lensbaby | parenting | photography | thinking out loud

Recite This

Bymichelle May 18, 2011July 27, 2022

I  have a choice with this post.  I can just upload the photos, or use dance as a metaphor for some aspect of life, or I can say what I’m…

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music | photography | thinking out loud

My First Car Had an Eight Track Player

Bymichelle May 16, 2011July 27, 2022

My first car had an eight track player.  So, I stuck homemade mix tapes into an adapter that stuck into the eight track player and bounced up and down as…

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lensbaby | my home | photography | thinking out loud

Rainy Day

Bymichelle May 14, 2011July 27, 2022

We’ve had so little rain that it actually feels novel.  Where I would usually want to read or nap through it, I felt like I should sit on the front…

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