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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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  • music | photography

    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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