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Year: 2011

  • 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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  • cheap stuff | food | new to me

    Mother’s Last Days

    Bymichelle May 10, 2011July 27, 2022

    I need to warn you that these images are a departure from the usual plants, cats, shoes, and blur that adorn my blog.  Some might find them disturbing.  I find…

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  • animals | photography

    Collection of Parts

    Bymichelle May 9, 2011July 27, 2022

    Really.  (day 128) (day 124) (my Flickr)  Don’t know why I like those pics of me and “my shadow” so much, but I do.   Sometimes we just sit out…

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  • books | Christianity | photography | thinking out loud

    In the Margins

    Bymichelle May 7, 2011July 27, 2022

    You can find good stuff in the margins. I just finished my 9 month study group.  Let me just say that if you are at all interested in reading the Bible…

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  • beekeeping | books | cheap stuff | photography

    Fun Reads

    Bymichelle May 7, 2011July 27, 2022

    These are some new and old fun reads I’ve photographed in moments of inspiration desperation.   This is my all time favorite magazine. (Domino, day 123) I always wanted Blythe….

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  • photography | thinking out loud

    Spirals

    Bymichelle May 7, 2011July 27, 2022

    I wrote my first book when I was in first grade.  It was Amelia Bedelia and I copied it word for word onto a Big Chief tablet. When I was…

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  • animals | cheap stuff | craft | knitting | new to me | photography

    Mrs. Darcy aka Prometheus’ Penance

    Bymichelle May 3, 2011July 27, 2022

    Not bad, huh?  (Mrs. Darcy – Inspired Cardigan or Prometheus’ Penance, day 122) It looks so prim and sedate.  But knitting this was a trip, especially in the last few…

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