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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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