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Creative Friday: Recovering a Vintage Typewriter
Thanks for returning for part II of this post. This week I’m tying up loose ends and revealing all of the brunt work it took to recover my recent true love-an antique 1950s Royal typewriter. Let’s get started shall we? Since I had no way of knowing how to update this ugly outside cover, I…
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Cultivating a Garden of Patience
It’s not easy to wait idly while the world goes by. It reminds me of being a kid, stuck in the house, angry and resentful as I watched drops of water fall literally raining on my parade. It’s that same impatience that plagues me. There is a part of me that wants to stomp on…
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Creative Friday: Vintage Typewriters
In a mad rush fueled by enthusiasm and crazy ambition, I decided to recover my antique typewriter. It’s one I mentioned on my Facebook page. I actually had no idea what I was doing or how I was going to recover it. But sometimes I’m impulsive like that. And when inspiration takes over I just run…
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Crafty Fridays: Spring is Here!
Well almost. Whenever the sun peeks out from the clouds, I feel like rejoicing the end of a long winter and celebrating spring, which to me symbolizes hope. One thing that’s helped me to shake off the last shot of winter blues is to paint. After my husband gave me these yellow daisies for Valentine’s…
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What’s Vital to the Success of Your Dreams
Every day a million dreams are dispersed around the world. I like to think of them as seeds awaiting their potential, having faith in nothing, but the wind to carry them far and love to embed them deep. Think of a dandelion with all of its individual seeds. If it sits safe, it will never…
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Creative Friday: Reusing Bottle Caps
I’m not much of a bottle drinker. I rarely drink soda. But when my cousin handed out Hawaiian lilikoi soda for the holidays I was smitten. Those pretty pink bottles gleamed and was admittedly a nice once-in-awhile sweet treat. While I forgot to snap a shot of the bottles themselves, I did catch a few…