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Makin’ It

Bymichelle December 22, 2010July 27, 2022

It’s been a busy week of making Christmas gifts.   As I was clicking the mouse to arrange the same pictures differently for calendars over and over, or wrapping wire…

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family | music | parenting | photography

Plugging Away

Bymichelle November 12, 2010July 27, 2022

I have been, even if my week’s practice all takes place in two evenings or one marathon session of once popular tunes. (365 Day 305) Right now the challenge is…

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books | knitting | linkage | music | photography | thinking out loud

My Winter Catalog Moment

Bymichelle November 11, 2010July 27, 2022

I’m pretty grounded, but once in a while I get wistful like a child and draw up a long, impossible Christmas list in my head because it’s winter and that’s…

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cheap stuff | knitting | music

I Got it at Ross Because it Was There.

Bymichelle November 3, 2010July 27, 2022

This is why I love Ross: (365, Day 296) 18 balls of Ella Rae Extrafine Heathers wool- at Ross!?  I was looking at footstools and there they were, glowing in a…

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Good Driving Music

Bymichelle October 4, 2010July 27, 2022

                                                       

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Christianity | music | photography | thinking out loud | ttv photo

If it Doesn’t Kill You, It Makes You the Hulk

Bymichelle September 30, 2010July 27, 2022

     The bear said, Isabel, glad to meet you, How do, Isabel, now I’ll eat you!Isabel, Isabel, didn’t worry,Isabel didn’t scream or scurry.She washed her hands and she straightened…

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family | homemaking | music | new to me | parenting

Music Man

Bymichelle September 17, 2010July 27, 2022

Just…please, don’t call him that. It took some urging, some casual, carefully placed comments over a period of time…actually, it took a bribe;  but my son is practicing piano and…

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music | photography

Here it Comes

Bymichelle September 17, 2010July 27, 2022

We had an unexpected storm that day. (365 Day 250) “My feet are planted in the waist-high reedsIn the shadows in the shape of treesThrough the kingdom’s smoky leavesYou’d be…

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martial arts | music | new to me | photography | thinking out loud

Time to Stretch

Bymichelle September 9, 2010July 27, 2022

It’s that time.  I guess things are just too quiet or, dare I say, comfortable.  I’ve made peace with self portraits,  fit in a new study habit, stagnated in martial…

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linkage | music | thinking out loud

New Linkage

Bymichelle September 7, 2010

Bringing back all those crusty junior high band uniform memories.

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