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Children Inspire Design

July 16, 2010
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Good Morning Sunshine (8″ x 10″ or 11″ x 14″ print) When I was growing up, my mom kept a large cupboard full of arts and craft supplies that my brother and I could get into whenever we felt like creating. She would stock it with your typical supplies — paints, glue, markers, pencils, scissors, construction [...]

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Hearts

January 28, 2010

Eventually, I figure, it will come. I will discover the secret to just making stuff up and designing it and planning out the production. Jen will get more phone calls or e-mails from me begging to borrow her love of repetitive, tedious projects. And Oomphasis will churn out lots of stuff. To go in the [...]

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Winter’s white inspiration

January 6, 2010

I’ve been thinking about snow quite often lately. I love the anticipation of snowfall, and I especially love it when the snowflakes start to flutter around after I’m already locked safely inside my house for the evening, curled up with a good book and a steaming mug of hot chocolate. It’s convenient when the snow [...]

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Skoonberg

December 22, 2009

Oh! Hello there. It seems that Christmas is closing in fast, in case you – like me – hadn’t noticed. This past weekend I actually achieved the sending of a small batch of handmade Christmas cards; though the big story really is that Christmas cards even made it from my hands into envelopes with stamps and addresses and stuff, and [...]

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Roughing It

October 8, 2009

I just wanted to call your attention for a few moments to my Tumblog, which I am fairly good at forgetting about. It’s probably a really handy thing when you know what to do with it, and so it’s currently my new bright idea to start using Tumblr to “curate” (or round up, I suppose) [...]

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On seeing

September 9, 2009

It was like September first came and when it did, summer hightailed it right on out of here. It got cooler, the humidity dropped, it’s been overcast and occasionally rainy. But the thing I’m most interested in is the overcastness, because as soon as the clouds rolled in and the temperature dropped, the colors got [...]

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