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  • cheap stuff | family | garden | new to me

    Hand-Me-Down Seeds

    Bymichelle September 8, 2009July 27, 2022

    It’s my first time to save seeds from my little garden. The little garden that could. I ordered heirloom seeds and a book on growing and harvesting seeds. When they…

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  • cheap stuff | craft | new to me | photography | ttv photo

    Contraption! Contraption!

    Bymichelle August 15, 2009July 27, 2022

    This is my contraption for the argus cameras I bought a couple of weeks ago. I stayed up late watching Arrested Development and taping it together last night so I…

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  • cheap stuff | craft | new to me

    Souvenirs From Our Beach

    Bymichelle August 15, 2009July 27, 2022

    Did last minute project before I leave for Maine. I saw at tutorial on Sea glass jewelry and decided to use some of the pieces I’ve been collecting with every…

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  • cheap stuff | craft | music | new to me

    Finally Tried It

    Bymichelle August 12, 2009July 27, 2022

    This is something I’ve been wanting to try for a while but never could warp a record I bought at Goodwill. Even the stinkers are fun. But, I went shopping…

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  • cheap stuff | my home | new to me | photography | ttv photo

    First Argus Lens Photos

    Bymichelle August 8, 2009July 27, 2022

    Taken with two different cameras (both only $15.) The first shot is with my clean argus 75, and the last with “as is.” Now I have to make a contraption.

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  • cheap stuff | homemaking

    Used is Good

    Bymichelle August 3, 2009July 27, 2022

    This last weekend I finally convinced my daughter that shopping re-cycled is the most fun. Adam and I have been doing the Financial Peace thing to lower our cost of…

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  • camping | cheap stuff | my home

    Just One Hitch…

    Bymichelle August 3, 2009July 27, 2022

    Yee-ha! We got our pop up yesterday. This was something we’d wanted to do for a while but seemed out of our budgetary reach. But you know how a chance…

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  • cheap stuff | garden | my home

    Another Happy Ending

    Bymichelle July 8, 2009July 27, 2022

    Finished our small budget recycled patio in time for the fourth. We used broken chunks of concrete from old foundations that we picked up on the side of the road…

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  • camping | cheap stuff | homemaking | places | thinking out loud | travel

    Father’s Day Camp-out

    Bymichelle June 25, 2009July 27, 2022

    I love Dis’ Fam. It was a last minute trip so we took the only campground that offered tube rides and seemed fairly family friendly that we could get. It’s…

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  • cheap stuff | garden | new to me

    Hope Deferred

    Bymichelle May 31, 2009July 27, 2022

     I love everything about backyards: hammocks, kids, dogs, cats, neighbors, grills, grass underfoot, moon and stars at dusk, charcoal, flowers, bubbles, water, rock collections, sand, picnics, lemonade, hide and seek,…

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