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365

Posted in Contemplative on April 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Tomorrow is a big day for The Spotted Elephant.  I’m starting the Project 365 challenge.  I’ll be taking at least one photo a day for a year and post it here as a way to document everyday life.  Sometimes I’ll write a regular post to accompany it, and sometimes I’ll just let the photo speak for itself.  Either way, [...]

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Still Life

Posted in Crafty, Husband, Time Travel on April 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Time Travel Tuesday
I’m married to a very eclectic, well-rounded gentleman.  In his life so far, Randy has:

Taken riding lessons and ridden in horse shows
Played soccer, football, and volleyball
Coached a girls volleyball team
Starred as the only male member of our high-school’s rifle and flag team (winterguard) and then came back to coach during college
Dabbled in minor [...]

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Sometimes Rain Pays Off

Posted in Contemplative, Eye Candy on April 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Complete double  rainbow as seen from my front porch.  (The second rainbow is very hard to see in these pictures.)  The best rainbow I’ve ever seen, hands down.  As the rainbow faded away, some cartoonish cotton-ball clouds developed.    

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Posted in Crafty, Eye Candy, Sewin' on April 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Thursday Crafternoon
My latest sewing obsession is the Stacked Coins quilt.  I’ve spent way too long browsing the photo gallery of the 2009 Coin Quilt Piece-along.  Its like quilt porn and I can’t get enough.  So I decided to start one of my own.  This quilt doesn’t have a purpose yet.  Suspiciously, it seems to match [...]

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Monkey Business

Posted in Blogroll, Crafty on April 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Wildcard Wednesday
An Open Letter to Brooke from DrunkenMonkeyKnits:
I thought we were friends.  I thought I could trust you not to sneak around my house and spy on my craft projects, then subsequently copy them and publish the results on the world wide interwebz as your own.  But I guess I was wrong, because I recently [...]

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Springing

Posted in Contemplative, Great Outdoors, Lists on April 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »

The Monday List – How I Know its Spring
1.  The scent of a thunderstorm at dusk last night.
2.  A carpet of daffodils lining lucky sections of earth along the interstate.
3.  Bradford pear trees everywhere, exploding with snowy blossoms.

4.  Tiny, bright green shoots optimistically breaking through the ground to replace last year’s spent, brown branches.
5.  Daylight until 8pm, [...]

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