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Submitted : Wed, Feb 27 2008, 18:50
I have been experimenting with my new camera, the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTI or EOS 400D. I have uploaded two new photos to my slideshow. Check back often for new and upcoming additions while I learn about photography. The painting of the photograph...
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brian
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painting
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photos
Submitted : Wed, Feb 27 2008, 12:50
Here for you today is another craft done by my very talented and dearly missed Grandma Lucy. This is a door stop dressed up to look like a mouse. My grandmother found this craft on a trip she and my mother took one summer. My grandmother copied the c...
http://www.dawnshumate.com/2008/02/27/...
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door stop
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grandma lucy
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sewing
Submitted : Mon, Feb 11 2008, 11:34
Green Daily published a story this past saturday about some really cool and sustainable spectacles. The story claims they are really flexible so it is hard to break them but I wonder how the material will hold up to the rigors of everyday w...
http://www.dawnshumate.com/2008/02/11/...
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eco-friendly
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sustainable
Submitted : Mon, Feb 11 2008, 10:25
I learned how to macrame not too long after my daughter was born. I used to make plain beaded jewelry in junior high and high school using string or fishing line but didn't discover this method of decorative knotting till in the course of s...
http://www.dawnshumate.com/2008/02/11/...
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macrame
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plant hanger
Submitted : Sun, Feb 10 2008, 15:17
Now it is time to share some of the crafty goodness from my husband's side of our family. Brian has many crafty people in his family one of which is his Grandmother Mae. She has been making quilts for a very long time and has supported her family at ...
http://www.dawnshumate.com/2008/02/10/...
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grandma mae
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quilting
Submitted : Sun, Feb 10 2008, 00:07
Congratulations and thanks to the Kept Woman for being the very first commenter on my brand new blog. You have won three lovely hemp-twine teethers which were personally handmade by me. Please email me with your details so I can send them to you. The...
http://www.dawnshumate.com/2008/01/24/...
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macrame
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teether
Submitted : Sun, Feb 10 2008, 00:06
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ice
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nature
Submitted : Sun, Feb 10 2008, 00:06
About 15 or 16 years ago I went on a trip to Scotland with my dad and step-mother which was their third successful home exchange with a family across the Atlantic and was my second european trip with them. My step-mother has always been big into expl...
http://www.dawnshumate.com/2008/02/02/...
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dad
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haggis
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scotland
Submitted : Sat, Feb 09 2008, 20:08
My father was a photography teacher at both high school and college level and a professional photographer specializing in travel and wedding photography. Since the role of teacher was his main career for 35 years he always received wonderful apple fi...
http://www.dawnshumate.com/2008/02/03/...
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collections
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dad
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latch hook
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mom
