Archive for 2009 August

Rule of Photography #317

When attempting to get a shot such as this: Don’t ask the six-year-old to press the shutter button.

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Morning Coffee with Alicia Paulson

Welcome!  Pour yourself a nice hot cup of coffee or tea, grab a slice of blueberry pound cake, and have a seat.  This morning we’ll be chatting with Alicia Paulson of Posie Gets Cozy. This is the first in what I hope will be a weekly-ish series.  We’ll sit down with some of my favorite [...]

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All I need is a destination

I’ve had this nice, striped, heavy cotton valence sitting here for a month or so. I picked it up for a few dollars at a thrift shop, with no real plan in mind for it.  Tonight it became four handy travel pouches – three with drawstrings and one with a button closure. This little pouch [...]

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Rain.

Yesterday saw me baking hamburger rolls for supper, doing two days’-worth of business tasks, and engaging with my overly chatty children. I was doing all of these things at once, but none of them particularly well. By evening, I felt dizzy, and I’d pulled a muscle in my neck. This morning both are better, but [...]

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Just beachy

Now that both of my kids are school-age, I find that I appreciate my role as at-home Mom most deeply in the summer.  I’ve gotten used to having them both on schedules and gone for a great portion of the time during the school year, but in the summer?  In the summer, we can drop [...]

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