Author: Mary-Frances

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This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics Toothpicks, 2007 (60×99″) Depicts 8 million toothpicks, equal to the number of trees harvested in the US every month to make the paper for mail order catalogs. As for me, there is nothing more satisfying about

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Happy 50th Anniversary to Mom and Dad!

Happy 50th Anniversary to Mom and Dad!

I think you will all understand how crazy it’s been when I wish my Mom and Dad Happy 50th Anniversary. Their anniversary was actually in March, but the celebration got moved to summer so my brother, sister in law, and two kids (who my kids have never met!) could come

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A lot of fun in the sun!

A lot of fun in the sun!

playing outside Originally uploaded by rexandsharkey We’ve been doing a lot of gardening, playing at the park and visiting the library….ah, summer has begun! Thanks for all the “hellos” in my previous post! Nice to know folks are there and waving hello! Still having issues with spam entries on the

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Back into it….aka “Summer Begins”

Back into it….aka “Summer Begins”

I seem to have arrived at the motherlode! Being in a neighborhood with huge amounts of Mom’s with young kids…guess what quite a few are getting rid of! Their wedding dresses! This one comes from my massively creative friend Claudia! Isn’t it gorgeous? She was worried about a little dirt

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All about the kids

All about the kids

Well, with this crazy picture of my kids (Missy C looking WAY beyond her 6 years) and my adorable soon to be 5 year old (2 days!) who’s dressed like Roddy St. James. I’m explaining my absence by saying we have been swamped! TONS of end of school activities! Anyway,

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How to Be Creative

Being on this big “creative trip”, I ran across this link – wow! All I can say, set down with a “cuppa” (as Sharon B would say) and have a good read…it’s great stuff! When Hugh MacLeod, (click the link above) sells his first book, I’m SO going to buy

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Webring Maintenance – “Bloggers Who Embellish”

Today I’m doing a LONG put off job of going through all 250 members of the Bloggers who Embellish webring and emailing the code to those who don’t have it on their blog, deleting dead end links, updating people who have forgotten to update their info on the list and

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The power of Tornados

The power of Tornados

Many thanks to “Kansas Explorer” for this photo (I hope it’s ok I borrowed it- he has other fantastic photos of the area). One of my favorite spots on our trip to Kansas was Greensburg Kansas, home of the Big Well. I used to stop there on my trips back

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