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Happy Memorial Day!

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Happy Memorial Day to you all. I hope you are spending time with your nearest and dearest today, and will share a few moments of quiet cont...

Hello, My name is ...

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ADD Val Yesterday, my husband called me that.  I slightly rolled my eyes at him, but then I looked around at what I had going on. Ok, I ...

Prickly progressions

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Seems to be that kind of day... that kind of week. After returning home from our wonderful visit with Drew in Az last week, things just turn...

Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful Moms!

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We are enjoying a very special Mother's Day with our son in AZ, and learning all about life on the horse ranch. It's a beautiful he...

Renegade, Here I come!!

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Yeeee-haw! I am so excited to learn that I have been accepted to the  Renegade LA Craft Fair  this coming July!  I applied last year,...

It's a Bloghop!!!

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Ok, girlfriend, I will admit this, and I know you know what I'm talking about: I am addicted to blogs! I love to get that sweet peek in...

Planning ahead for a busy weekend!

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Two biggie fun events are coming up this weekend, and the first one that is so exciting is a Bloghop from my Art of Wild Abandonment girlfr...

Spankin' Fresh and Clean

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Austin's Gallery has gone through a big transformation over the past week, and we have reopened this weekend with a new, fresh, ...

Kokeshi Love

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Do you have it too?  I spent time during my childhood in Japan. When I left, a part of Japanese life and culture became a part of me....

Mobile blogging?

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This is a test. For the next several seconds, this blog will conduct a test of the mobile blogging system. This is only a test. I only as...

design finds

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My HSHB online class is in it's last few weeks, and though I am sad it's soon coming to a close, I feel ready to begging puttin...

Scrap haps

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I have to say that it's been bittersweet to see the end come so quickly to Junelle Jacobsen and Christy Tomlinson's class, The Art o...

Grrl crush

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Do you get those too? Girl crushes? Um humm, I know you do ... So, it's ok to admit it. Today, I'm crushing big time... I'm over...

Upcoming classes! woohoo!

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Hey peeps! I've finally gotten my act together and scheduled my next round of classes. Yay!! There are two needle felting classes, but o...

Etsy love: supporting the slow craft movement

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I love this. This is why I keep my shop active on Etsy . It's why I shop for goods and (many) services on Etsy, and why I support other ...

Sunny day love

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Art journal piece created from The Art of Wild Abandonment class I think, years from now, when I look back on today... on where I am in thi...

Cutes on tour

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Oh, my heck! will you look at these cutes! They have flown the coop, well, at least temporarily... Where have they gone? Maybe they are sail...

Tattooed baby

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In IOP*, we have met amazing families, incredible parents, troubled teens and broken souls who have found their way back from the brink of a...

Re-balancing

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It's a time of rebalancing and redirecting for me. It's been exactly one month since our 15 year old son, Drew, left for In Balance ...

Cleaning the house of my heart

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Who really enjoys cleaning house? I, for one, allow my ADD to take over, and find any and every distraction possible in order to procrastina...