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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;So, I got busy sewing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LBZhtUgenf0/Tw2wKpjMEhI/AAAAAAAAJYo/WQ3XgGmvLAE/s1600/DSCN2630.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212px" kba="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LBZhtUgenf0/Tw2wKpjMEhI/AAAAAAAAJYo/WQ3XgGmvLAE/s320/DSCN2630.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I made her a tic-tac-toe fabric board and felt X &amp;amp; O pieces&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iJ8qE-vOqXg/Tw2wLs2QllI/AAAAAAAAJYw/vub1xosVUZc/s1600/DSCN2631.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" kba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iJ8qE-vOqXg/Tw2wLs2QllI/AAAAAAAAJYw/vub1xosVUZc/s320/DSCN2631.JPG" width="296px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;a lined bag to put the game &amp;amp; pieces in&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iQVarBNA9Hk/Tw2wMqUGLYI/AAAAAAAAJY4/H3MQuU62pM8/s1600/DSCN2633.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="257px" kba="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iQVarBNA9Hk/Tw2wMqUGLYI/AAAAAAAAJY4/H3MQuU62pM8/s320/DSCN2633.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;and a fleece boa style scarf and two hair pom-poms for her ponytail.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kD5ktl3QGXk/Tw2wPzDxrqI/AAAAAAAAJZA/CvwcwFyfCyU/s1600/DSCN2624.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" kba="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kD5ktl3QGXk/Tw2wPzDxrqI/AAAAAAAAJZA/CvwcwFyfCyU/s320/DSCN2624.JPG" width="212px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I bought 1 yard of fleece and was able to get 2 scarves &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;(one for a child and one for a toddler)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;8 larger hair pompoms&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;amp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;8 medium hair pompoms.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Not to bad for a piece of fabric that cost me $4.54!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div align="center"&gt;I also made some things for a Peppermint Pixie&amp;nbsp;swap I was in.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uLCgGdAJC-I/Tw2wURBwtYI/AAAAAAAAJZI/WbWlZwRc1bQ/s1600/DSCN2616.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213px" kba="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uLCgGdAJC-I/Tw2wURBwtYI/AAAAAAAAJZI/WbWlZwRc1bQ/s320/DSCN2616.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I had the doll pieces already and I just added pipe cleaners for the body,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;a felt dress, a crocheted shawl with a matching hat and &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I crocheted the legs and added little pompoms for shoes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I also added little candycanes for the pixies wings.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Not to bad for things I had on hand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Then I made a mitten ornament out of felt and added a plastic candy cane.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aboTIOoL7nY/Tw2wWu3rk-I/AAAAAAAAJZQ/iJaQ-MsNPvU/s1600/DSCN2617.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213px" kba="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aboTIOoL7nY/Tw2wWu3rk-I/AAAAAAAAJZQ/iJaQ-MsNPvU/s320/DSCN2617.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I also made a candy cane matchbox ornament&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;and some goodies for the inside that I had on hand.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dq_0fUSHxgw/Tw2zCaWQC2I/AAAAAAAAJZY/fLykgazyG9g/s1600/DSCN2618.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" kba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dq_0fUSHxgw/Tw2zCaWQC2I/AAAAAAAAJZY/fLykgazyG9g/s320/DSCN2618.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I&amp;nbsp;painted some clothespins﻿ &amp;amp; homemade peppermint bark.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I've been trying to become more frugal and creative at the same time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I think I did pretty good!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-2230085739016815143?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/w647Dc1802g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/w647Dc1802g/getting-creative-on-budget.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LBZhtUgenf0/Tw2wKpjMEhI/AAAAAAAAJYo/WQ3XgGmvLAE/s72-c/DSCN2630.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2012/01/getting-creative-on-budget.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-6425409097894218956</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-28T09:06:46.416-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">other blogs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Swaps</category><title>Feeling the Need to Swap this Year?</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-acuMDwjMZx8/TvshEIFKZHI/AAAAAAAAJYA/gFpAh04QGNU/s1600/little+red+badge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" rea="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-acuMDwjMZx8/TvshEIFKZHI/AAAAAAAAJYA/gFpAh04QGNU/s1600/little+red+badge.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Val from &lt;a href="http://yarnigrasswapperspot.blogger.com/" target="_blank"&gt;YarniGras&lt;/a&gt; is hosting a Year of Enchantment Swap for the 3rd year.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;If you'd like to join our group go to her swapping blog and check it out.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-6425409097894218956?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/TrUNxiooD5E" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/TrUNxiooD5E/feeling-need-to-swap-this-year.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-acuMDwjMZx8/TvshEIFKZHI/AAAAAAAAJYA/gFpAh04QGNU/s72-c/little+red+badge.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/12/feeling-need-to-swap-this-year.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-3708387871200822243</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-14T07:25:57.210-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">felt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">banners</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sewing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">school</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Jace</category><title>Family Time at Jace's School</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Yesterday we went to Jace's classroom for 15 minutes of Family Time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The kids asked questions and we showed them &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;pictures of our family.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Mallory and I made this mitten garland as a gift for the class.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;the pictures aren't to whoopy but there are mittens,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;beads, felt circles and snowballs that spell out winter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;We also made some mini pumpkin muffins for the class,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;but they had to wait until snack time to eat them :(&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Mallory and Ezie were counting on having one!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Oh well, I made some for them for after school :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Thanks Jace for bringing us to school to share things about our family!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-3708387871200822243?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/ugUgizrOBJY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/ugUgizrOBJY/family-time-at-jaces-school.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CtysjXmvjf4/TuiTnMsBbRI/AAAAAAAAJXM/8L4bMFEggpk/s72-c/DSCN2490.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/12/family-time-at-jaces-school.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-2325256926572211269</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-12T09:00:33.036-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">time</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">about me</category><title>Whoa!  Slow Down!</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Whoa!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Stop the Clock!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I need some more time before Christmas to finish all of my projects.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; So let's just stop the clock and give me an extra day or two&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;so I can finish without being totally stressed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Now to get busy!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-2325256926572211269?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/GqgP-GaFa9s" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/GqgP-GaFa9s/whoa-slow-down.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MGCFFaWx4VM/TuYICuCjYVI/AAAAAAAAJW8/Qi1INL4GuUI/s72-c/olay-stop-the-clock-small-94895.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/12/whoa-slow-down.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-656315116023526358</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-10T08:39:26.225-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sewing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">grunged</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">dresses</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">crochet</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ornaments</category><title>Pretty Prim Dresses</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Since my girls don't wear dresses anymore&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;and these are really easy&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I made some&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;dresses to hang in a room or use as an ornament.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;They are about 6 or so inches tall.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This dress I crocheted a color and cuffs onto the dress and then crocheted a little hand muff.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;It has beads for buttons and the hanger is a cinnamon stick with a piece of jute tied to it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I also grunged the dress with a mixture of coffee and spices.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I think it's so cute and it smells yummy too!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div align="center"&gt;This dress a gathered the ends of the sleeves, crocheted a collar and grunged it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Simple but sweet!﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PhHlWC-GxQ4/TuNe42PLAdI/AAAAAAAAJWE/J6o4sa5psjA/s1600/DSCN2367.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" mda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PhHlWC-GxQ4/TuNe42PLAdI/AAAAAAAAJWE/J6o4sa5psjA/s320/DSCN2367.JPG" width="212px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;On this dress I added some lace and a ribbon and grunged her up good.﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I have some more I made that I added bloomers to.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I had fun making these. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I could just be creative and have fun with them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I hope you enjoyed seeing my little grungy prim dresses!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-656315116023526358?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/08RlHKwYLMs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/08RlHKwYLMs/pretty-prim-dresses.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V4mAIjSRY6I/TuNe0FPCiXI/AAAAAAAAJV0/-suR_45cIeg/s72-c/DSCN2404.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/12/pretty-prim-dresses.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-2810319380524314758</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-06T10:11:41.271-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Jace</category><title>I Look Mad Cool Today!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;"I Look MAD Cool today!"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;That's what my Jace said after we fixed his hair.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;He's been practicing with water on getting this look&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;and so this morning we put gel in it and I helped him spike it&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;and now he looks mad cool!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;He also has his&amp;nbsp;KU Sweatshirt, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;his favorite jeans and shoes on so that really made the look.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I love having such a happy guy!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;of course....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I don't think he was looking mad cool for me,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;but for &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;his love.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Angelina.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Oh boy,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I'm not ready for this yet!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Slow down Jace!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-2810319380524314758?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/IzY0b5WOpeI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/IzY0b5WOpeI/i-look-mad-cool-today.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j6uLWIkrwVs/Tt4wk2i9VrI/AAAAAAAAJVs/5ij2GYSW3Ws/s72-c/DSCN2472.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-look-mad-cool-today.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-293799481012002908</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-09T14:13:38.453-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">movies</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">death</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">about me</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cooking</category><title>My Movie Review....a little outdated!</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Last night I half heartily started watching the movie Julie &amp;amp; Julia.&amp;nbsp; I really didn't think I'd like it....why you might ask...I don't know, I just didn't.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I LOVED the movie.&amp;nbsp; It was so inspirational, heart warming and even educational.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I could so relate with Julie &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and learned a lot about Julia Childs.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Loved, loved, loved it!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I feel so inspired today!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I also watched Seven Pounds with Will Smith.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I thought it would be good with Will Smith in it..... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and then it started.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I was kinda confused and glad I didn't save the movie to watch with the kids&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;But then,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;OMG!&amp;nbsp; It was so good!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Once I got into it and understood what was going on &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I LOVED it!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;So much emotion and love.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I couldn't even imagine what I would do if I was in the same situation as Tim was in the movie.&amp;nbsp; I have thought about that many times and I think I would just curl up and die.&amp;nbsp; Such a good movie!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I've been dying to read a Harlan Coben or Kevin O'Brien book,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;but we're without a car again and I can't get to the library.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Hopefully, we'll get it back soon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;until then&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I hope there are some more decent movies on tv!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-293799481012002908?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/XXRJI6YJ4LY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/XXRJI6YJ4LY/my-movie-reviewa-little-outdated.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-movie-reviewa-little-outdated.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-6444308719580118085</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-23T09:06:25.718-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">projects</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">crafts</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">attic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">about me</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">painting</category><title>A New Craft Room??  I Think So!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I've never been in the attic of the house we live in now.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I know it has some leaks and a broken window and &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I've never really had much of a desire to look up there.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;BUT,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I finally went up to take a peak &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;and I discovered my new craft room!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vB1k67tr3a4/TqQO3dA7vnI/AAAAAAAAJTE/leEn2U8scKI/s1600/DSCN2050.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vB1k67tr3a4/TqQO3dA7vnI/AAAAAAAAJTE/leEn2U8scKI/s320/DSCN2050.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;It's definitely going to take a lot of work!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-df5dfiiMOo4/TqQO6kR7RjI/AAAAAAAAJTM/G1qAUUj6F00/s1600/DSCN2047.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-df5dfiiMOo4/TqQO6kR7RjI/AAAAAAAAJTM/G1qAUUj6F00/s320/DSCN2047.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I think my sewing machine would fit great right under these two windows&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qE1FpaD-m00/TqQO765Rg2I/AAAAAAAAJTU/Jo6FqFEllVI/s1600/DSCN2045.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qE1FpaD-m00/TqQO765Rg2I/AAAAAAAAJTU/Jo6FqFEllVI/s320/DSCN2045.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;The ceiling is only about 5 feet in the middle&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;which is perfect for me!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I have both sides of the attic to put my tubs and bins&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;full of crafty stuff.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I can't wait to get started.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Since we rent and we're broke it's not going to be the nicest makeover&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;but, I think I can make it quite doable&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;with lots of elbow grease and lots of love!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I'm so excited to get started....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;and to get my craft stuff all in one spot and not&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;in the living room, dining room, hallways, closets and any other place I can find in the house to stash it!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-6444308719580118085?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/p8QmIz0oiNs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/p8QmIz0oiNs/new-craft-room-i-think-so.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vB1k67tr3a4/TqQO3dA7vnI/AAAAAAAAJTE/leEn2U8scKI/s72-c/DSCN2050.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-craft-room-i-think-so.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-8872958859255063397</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-12T08:25:35.067-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">owls</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">crochet</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">hats</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ezie</category><title>Look Hoots Wearing the New Hat I Made</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I made this Owl hat yesterday&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;from a pattern I purchased from &lt;a href="http://www.crazysockscrochet.com/"&gt;http://www.crazysockscrochet.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2ZJl_Nv-RiI/TpWGydiN2SI/AAAAAAAAJR8/v1aa24VLZu8/s1600/DSCN1995.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" oda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2ZJl_Nv-RiI/TpWGydiN2SI/AAAAAAAAJR8/v1aa24VLZu8/s320/DSCN1995.JPG" width="212px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dB2NoZ02Szc/TpWGzl-IGVI/AAAAAAAAJSE/iQopYRqVdLE/s1600/DSCN1997.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" oda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dB2NoZ02Szc/TpWGzl-IGVI/AAAAAAAAJSE/iQopYRqVdLE/s320/DSCN1997.JPG" width="213px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wXGkiTlNvhk/TpWG0W3cXsI/AAAAAAAAJSM/o44bihHz82M/s1600/DSCN1996.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" oda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wXGkiTlNvhk/TpWG0W3cXsI/AAAAAAAAJSM/o44bihHz82M/s320/DSCN1996.JPG" width="212px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and I think Ezie looks pretty darn cute in it!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-8872958859255063397?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/2QKlqDOl5tg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/2QKlqDOl5tg/look-hoots-wearing-new-hat-i-made.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2ZJl_Nv-RiI/TpWGydiN2SI/AAAAAAAAJR8/v1aa24VLZu8/s72-c/DSCN1995.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/10/look-hoots-wearing-new-hat-i-made.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-3662883941078438616</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-10T12:08:17.010-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Annie Dolls</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">other blogs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Swaps</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Halloween</category><title>Zombie Doll Swap</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://yarnigras.blogspot.com/"&gt;Val &lt;/a&gt;from &lt;a href="http://yarnigras.blogspot.com/"&gt;Yarni Gras&lt;/a&gt; had a Zombie Doll Swap that I joined.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;It was so much fun and got me started on a doll kick again.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;My partner was &lt;a href="http://shabbyandfrills.blogspot.com/"&gt;Susan from Shabby and Frills&lt;/a&gt; and this is her very first doll.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Can you believe it?!?!?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I think she did such a fantastic job and this doll!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7P8Mo5Ym54Q/TpMS4kmQAnI/AAAAAAAAJRk/EBFzJnXkd8E/s1600/DSCN1985.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" kca="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7P8Mo5Ym54Q/TpMS4kmQAnI/AAAAAAAAJRk/EBFzJnXkd8E/s320/DSCN1985.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Xk2psrTWAos/TpMS_hi5lyI/AAAAAAAAJRo/h_qROEga8Gw/s1600/DSCN1984.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213px" kca="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Xk2psrTWAos/TpMS_hi5lyI/AAAAAAAAJRo/h_qROEga8Gw/s320/DSCN1984.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;Here is the rest of the goodies that she sent me.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Candy, a pumpkin scrubbie, 2 Halloween dishcloths, tissues, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;a mummy ornament and a wooden pumpkin container.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;I made out great!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;Here's what I sent to Susan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;A Zombie trick or treater&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XsqQCz22axk/TpMTDu7CL-I/AAAAAAAAJRw/3brrIYGnMWI/s1600/DSCN1937.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" kca="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XsqQCz22axk/TpMTDu7CL-I/AAAAAAAAJRw/3brrIYGnMWI/s320/DSCN1937.JPG" width="213px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;and when you remove the costume there is an Annie Doll.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;I also made a banner out of a quilt block&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OsSzs9aHwvQ/TpMTGzlIH1I/AAAAAAAAJR4/_XOvTbmFH8g/s1600/DSCN1939.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" kca="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OsSzs9aHwvQ/TpMTGzlIH1I/AAAAAAAAJR4/_XOvTbmFH8g/s320/DSCN1939.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;and then made her a twashi, a matchbox ornament, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;and a little bag to put it all in.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Thanks Val for hosting the swap and &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Thank you Susan for a wonderful time swapping &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;and I LOVE my doll you sent!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-3662883941078438616?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/DR97CGRp-4U" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/DR97CGRp-4U/zombie-doll-swap.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7P8Mo5Ym54Q/TpMS4kmQAnI/AAAAAAAAJRk/EBFzJnXkd8E/s72-c/DSCN1985.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/10/zombie-doll-swap.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-9102133677195369859</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-07T14:30:46.793-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">forensics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bragging</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Danny</category><title>I Have to Get My Brag On!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;My brother Danny,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Officially, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Daniel J. Wescott, PhD.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Associate Professor&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Director, Forensic Anthropology Center&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Department of Anthropology&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Texas State University&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Danny became the Director of the Forensic Anthropology Center&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;at Texas State University at the beginning of this school year. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I am so proud of him!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Congratulations Danny on your new job!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iXRqodP-Lz0/To8-yGXmb5I/AAAAAAAAJRg/8TDMfYnOMS4/s1600/Danny%2527s+coffin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" kca="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iXRqodP-Lz0/To8-yGXmb5I/AAAAAAAAJRg/8TDMfYnOMS4/s320/Danny%2527s+coffin.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This is a cast iron coffin that was found in Missouri.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Danny is a practicing Forensic Anthropologist, a researcher, teacher, etc.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;he also runs a "body farm"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;"The Forensic Anthropology Research Facility (FARF) is a 26-acre outdoor human decomposition research laboratory at Texas State’s Freeman Ranch. The FARF serves as a resource for forensic anthropology students, as well as state and national law enforcement agencies. Research into questions relating to time since death, the postmortem interval and decomposition rates for human remains under various topographical and climate conditions are conducted at FARF. Freeman Ranch also houses the associated on-site FARF laboratory that includes a decomposition processing suite, cold storage facilities, and teaching and conference rooms."&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.txstate.edu/anthropology/facts/"&gt;http://www.txstate.edu/anthropology/facts/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;So if you want to donate your body to science, now you'll know who to call!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I can't even to begin to understand all of the things that he does &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;all I know is he is really smart, good at what he does,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and my favorite little brother!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;We're all so proud of you Danny!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Here are some links for some of the recent media regarding Danny, the "body&amp;nbsp;farm"&amp;nbsp;and Texas State University&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://haysfreepress.com/archives/24774"&gt;http://haysfreepress.com/archives/24774&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://smmercury.com/47938/grant-to-help-develop-method-for-determining-skeletal-age-at-death/"&gt;http://smmercury.com/47938/grant-to-help-develop-method-for-determining-skeletal-age-at-death/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://txstate.academia.edu/DanielWescott"&gt;http://txstate.academia.edu/DanielWescott&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.txstate.edu/anthropology/facts/"&gt;http://www.txstate.edu/anthropology/facts/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-9102133677195369859?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/PMzQQOYB9YE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/PMzQQOYB9YE/i-have-to-get-my-brag-on.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iXRqodP-Lz0/To8-yGXmb5I/AAAAAAAAJRg/8TDMfYnOMS4/s72-c/Danny%2527s+coffin.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/10/i-have-to-get-my-brag-on.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-468687429739914948</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-03T16:25:28.494-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">siblings</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mom</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">beach</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">about me</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Maine</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">birthday's</category><title>My 50th Birthday in Maine</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I turned 50 last month, but my family celebrated with me in July.&amp;nbsp; My mom and 5 siblings and I&amp;nbsp;all met in Kennebunkport, Maine for 3 of the most wonderful and relaxing days of my life!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I couldn't have asked for a better group to celebrate with and I've never been to the ocean before so that was a double win for me.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I could really live near the ocean.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The sun...the water&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;It is so beautiful!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a5po0UrqggM/TooVyUQvZzI/AAAAAAAAJRA/yBBcuo80IBg/s1600/272687_2097793177172_1615658656_2057708_3739168_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" kca="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a5po0UrqggM/TooVyUQvZzI/AAAAAAAAJRA/yBBcuo80IBg/s320/272687_2097793177172_1615658656_2057708_3739168_o.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;This is me, my sister Stacey, my brother Mike, my sister Robyn, my Momma&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;my sister Cathy and my brother Danny.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C1YDARYE6JE/TooWHV5IqsI/AAAAAAAAJRU/o3Wpxu7Xnro/s1600/232323232%257Ffp__8_nu%253D3233_477_297_WSNRCG%253D349475636_338nu0mrj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" kca="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C1YDARYE6JE/TooWHV5IqsI/AAAAAAAAJRU/o3Wpxu7Xnro/s320/232323232%257Ffp__8_nu%253D3233_477_297_WSNRCG%253D349475636_338nu0mrj.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I got a little sunburned....to put it mildly.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;My poor boobies hurt for a week!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I had such a wonderful time&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and can't wait for my brother Danny to turn 50&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;so me, mom and my sibling can all get together again&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;and see what adventure we go on!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-468687429739914948?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/v0xxsEJiEQ0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/v0xxsEJiEQ0/my-50th-birthday-in-maine.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a5po0UrqggM/TooVyUQvZzI/AAAAAAAAJRA/yBBcuo80IBg/s72-c/272687_2097793177172_1615658656_2057708_3739168_o.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/10/my-50th-birthday-in-maine.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-3796652063301668570</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-22T17:44:10.477-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Jace</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Anthony</category><title>Silly Boys!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I was trying to get a nice picture of my grandson, Anthony and my Jace.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-3796652063301668570?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/0j2jQoNCZDo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/0j2jQoNCZDo/silly-boys.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-72I4dKRYZfg/TnuraCxVcBI/AAAAAAAAJQw/dQq4AvkTTGk/s72-c/DSCN1815.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/09/silly-boys.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-5384869870378782046</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-19T12:50:28.654-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tv shows</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Dancing with the Stars</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">diversity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">about me</category><title>Who's Ready for the Most Colorful Season Yet?</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://abc.go.com/shows/dancing-with-the-stars/cast-announcement"&gt;Dancing with the Stars&lt;/a&gt; is calling this the most Colorful Season Yet.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
Who's excited?&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
Who's going to be watching this season?&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;Do you have a favorite already?&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
Are you and your family going to boycott the show because of Chaz Bono being one of the "stars"?&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;I have been hearing so much controversy over Chaz being on the show.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;So.....I'm going to tell you what I think.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ybK71vXJdBs/Tndg0uSoWNI/AAAAAAAAJQs/jEdi8NbGBkc/s1600/66640dd68154c69ad230ecdd55b5fe09.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="179px" rba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ybK71vXJdBs/Tndg0uSoWNI/AAAAAAAAJQs/jEdi8NbGBkc/s320/66640dd68154c69ad230ecdd55b5fe09.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;photo taken from&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://abc.go.com/shows/dancing-with-the-stars/cast-announcement"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;http://abc.go.com/shows/dancing-with-the-stars/cast-announcement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I have watched Dancing with the Stars almost every season.&amp;nbsp; I've missed a couple of seasons...I missed last season because it was on during my dads death and with traveling and stuff I just ended up missing it.&amp;nbsp; Anyway, I love to watch the show and Earl and the kids enjoy it too.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I would give anything to be able to dance!&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Every year I have my favorites and then there are a few people that I don't particularly care for.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
I didn't care for Heather Mills, Kate Gosselin,&lt;br /&gt;
Pamela Anderson, Joanna Krupa, Jennifer Grey,&lt;br /&gt;
just to name a few.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;I've had my favorites like Kelly Osbourne, &lt;br /&gt;
Gilles Marini (oo la la), &lt;br /&gt;
Drew Lachey, Laila Ali,&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Mark Dacascos, Mya,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;Cloris Leachman and so on and so on.&lt;br /&gt;
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I am always surprised at how my perception of some of the "stars" are&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;from maybe what I thought they'd be like.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;I start watching the show with an opened mind and if I do vote, &lt;br /&gt;
I try to&amp;nbsp;base my vote&amp;nbsp;on the dancing,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;because after all it is suppose to be a dancing competition, &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a popularity contest.&lt;br /&gt;
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As far as Chaz Bono dancing...&lt;br /&gt;
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SO WHAT!&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;No, I don't think my children will want to change their gender from watching the show.&lt;br /&gt;
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Actually,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;my kids won't even know anything about Chaz's&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;gender change unless I tell them.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;Chaz is not going on Dancing with the Stars &lt;br /&gt;
to promote gender change.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Chaz is going on the show to dance&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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***&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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What about when Joanna Krupa was on the show?&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;Did she promote posing nude for magazines?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Did your kids become "Jack-ass's" from watching Steve-O?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A computer genius from watching Steve Wozniak?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
***&lt;br /&gt;
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My kids didn't,&lt;br /&gt;
and I doubt if yours did either!&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;I don't think that they will want to change their&lt;br /&gt;
gender because Chaz is on the show.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and &lt;br /&gt;
even if my kids&amp;nbsp;did&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
they are my kids&lt;br /&gt;
and I will love them &lt;br /&gt;
no matter what!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I love color!&lt;br /&gt;
I love diversity!&lt;br /&gt;
I love to explore different cultures!&lt;br /&gt;
After all, differences in people are what makes the world an interesting place!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
So my family will be sitting down together tonight and watching Dancing with the Stars with an opened mind.&amp;nbsp; I am really excited to see Nancy Grace, Ricki Lake, Carson Kressley, &lt;br /&gt;
David Arquette and Chaz Bono.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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Yes,&lt;br /&gt;
a very diverse&lt;br /&gt;
and colorful&lt;br /&gt;
group of people.....&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
just the way I like it!&lt;br /&gt;
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Good Luck to all of the dancers!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-5384869870378782046?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/7CmdrR1OaUM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/7CmdrR1OaUM/whos-ready-for-most-colorful-season-yet.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ybK71vXJdBs/Tndg0uSoWNI/AAAAAAAAJQs/jEdi8NbGBkc/s72-c/66640dd68154c69ad230ecdd55b5fe09.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/09/whos-ready-for-most-colorful-season-yet.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-5959341668276290498</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-09T18:48:53.336-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bubbles</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Martin Luther King</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mom</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">other blogs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Daddy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">about me</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">racism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">children</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Thank you</category><title>So Much Racism in 2011?  Really?</title><description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I've been doing a lot of thinking lately.&amp;nbsp; I actually do think quite a bit, but I tend not to share my thoughts.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I thought I would say what's on my mind and voice my opinion on racism.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I think of myself as&amp;nbsp;a sometimes naive, a very trusting and easy going person.&amp;nbsp; I try to see the world in color and not just black and white.&amp;nbsp; This is not to say that I don't make instant judgements or assume the worst in people sometimes, but I honestly try not to.&amp;nbsp; I go by the theory of "treat others the way I want to be treated."&amp;nbsp; I believe that we all have the right to be individuals and to have our own opinions.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;also am&amp;nbsp;not saying that I don't stear towards people that are like me.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I think that is normal, but it doesn't mean that I am not open and willing to make friends with people from the "other" group.&amp;nbsp; It reminds me of high school.&amp;nbsp; In our school we had the Socials, the Blacks, the Freaks, the Nerds, the Jocks, etc..... and everyone was suppose to be hang out with people from&amp;nbsp;"their" group.&amp;nbsp; I liked some people from the other groups, but it is hard to "go to the other side" sometimes.&amp;nbsp; Peer pressure....that is a whole different subject.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Back to the subject of Racism though.&amp;nbsp; I was brought up to believe that all colors of people are equal.&amp;nbsp; I was brought up that no race is dominant over another and that all people are just that, PEOPLE.&amp;nbsp; Skin color should not be what determines a persons character.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I am also not saying that I like all people.&amp;nbsp; I think that there are&amp;nbsp;bad white people, bad black people, bad people of every race,&amp;nbsp;BUT,&amp;nbsp;I also think&amp;nbsp;in those same groups there are so many good people.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;There are several reasons that I started really thinking about racism, but I'll share the incident that Earl had at work the other day.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; A couple at Earl's work were talking about how a &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;black&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; family moved into the house next to them.&amp;nbsp; "&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;The black family is renting and are probably on welfare"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (the rent is $1,700.00 a month....welfare.... I don't think so!)&amp;nbsp; This couple talked about sabotaging the other family to get them evicted and of course &lt;em&gt;how could the landlord do this to them....rent to a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;black&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;family&lt;/em&gt;!&amp;nbsp; A third person jumps into the conversation and says how he calls black people &lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Monday's" &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;because &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;everyone&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; hates Monday's.&amp;nbsp; There was more said, but you get the gist of it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I really don't understand their attitude and especially in this day and age.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I really thought that society had come further than this.&amp;nbsp; A family is being judged soley on the color of their skin.&amp;nbsp; Earl's co-workers refuse to get to know their new neighbors and they are already filled with hate for them.&amp;nbsp; Why are they not giving this family a chance?&amp;nbsp; Maybe they aren't nice people, but chances are, they are nice and will make wonderful neighbors.&amp;nbsp; Chances are they are just another family that wants to enjoy their new home and live a happy and productive life.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Maybe I live in a bubble and just refuse to see all the negativity in the world.&amp;nbsp; I am just shocked and really&amp;nbsp;REPULSED that racism is so alive in this day and age.&amp;nbsp; Black, Asian, European, Spanish, Indian, Arabic, etc, etc......we are all people.&amp;nbsp; People with their own unique cultures and colors, but still, we are all people, and deserve to be treated as such.&amp;nbsp; I think that we are all trying to achieve the same goal, to make it through life being happy, loved and accepted and to see our children grow up to happy and healthy.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2H2GqqjufxA/TmqNqld4CvI/AAAAAAAAJQc/gnncp2pErn4/s1600/Hands_Holding_Earth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212px" nba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2H2GqqjufxA/TmqNqld4CvI/AAAAAAAAJQc/gnncp2pErn4/s320/Hands_Holding_Earth.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;photo is from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theupbeatdad.com/2011/07/pride-and-prejudice-teaching-your-kids.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;http://www.theupbeatdad.com/2011/07/pride-and-prejudice-teaching-your-kids.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I also believe that racism is one of the most damaging and unfair things that parents can teach their children.&amp;nbsp; The Upbeat Dad explains this well "&lt;a href="http://www.theupbeatdad.com/2011/07/pride-and-prejudice-teaching-your-kids.html"&gt;One of my strongest beliefs is that no child leaves the womb with any level of prejudice towards anyone. Babies are born innocent and come into a world with all kinds of divisions – ethnic, religious, political, economic and the list goes on. But babies are as innocent as they could be.&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.theupbeatdad.com/2011/07/pride-and-prejudice-teaching-your-kids.html"&gt;As these babies become toddlers and then pass through the different phases of development, they learn about the world that they live in. It’s a scientific fact that 90% of brain development occurs during the first three years of life." &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.theupbeatdad.com/2011/07/pride-and-prejudice-teaching-your-kids.html"&gt;Here’s an approach: be proactive in addressing these topics to children from the earliest stages of their lives. Teach them to love and honor themselves because they are truly wonderful and special. At the same time, teach them to love, honor and respect others – whether they look like them or not.&lt;/a&gt;" &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CBqjTEj0GYM/TmqVf0kEhsI/AAAAAAAAJQk/ZsdUB-RQQX8/s1600/woman+in+a+bubble.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" nba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CBqjTEj0GYM/TmqVf0kEhsI/AAAAAAAAJQk/ZsdUB-RQQX8/s320/woman+in+a+bubble.jpg" width="317px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;photo from tcsidewalks.blogspot.com and edited by me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Actually living in a bubble is sometimes kinda nice....I get to see the beautiful opalescent colors reflecting in my bubble.&amp;nbsp; Another thing, I like Monday's.&amp;nbsp; Monday's are a new beginning, a&amp;nbsp;chance to go out into the world and experience life.&amp;nbsp; I also am so grateful that my parents taught me to have an opened mind and see the world as a colorful, diverse place where we are all created equal.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; “&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-5959341668276290498?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/SZWkdzQZ8x8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/SZWkdzQZ8x8/so-much-racism-in-2011-really.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jvwF0CD_ofY/TmqSgq4RKuI/AAAAAAAAJQg/4ayZU9z78rc/s72-c/business-woman-thinking.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/09/so-much-racism-in-2011-really.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-7581342889111041947</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-08T16:33:52.358-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tv shows</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jail</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">crafts</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">woman</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Krystal O'Reilly</category><title>A Girl Can Loose Her Freedom, But Not Her Will to Be Creative!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://2.gvt0.com/vi/-EL3Jd0RXmY/0.jpg"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-EL3Jd0RXmY&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-EL3Jd0RXmY&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;Flipping through the channels one day I started watching MSNBC's Lockup.&amp;nbsp; I was really impressed by one of the inmates, Krystal O'Reilly.&amp;nbsp; Krystal's attitude and sincerity really impressed me and then I realized that she is very creative too.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;Krystal was making cards and stationary out of homemade crayons.&amp;nbsp; Her crayons were old magazines or newspapers, deodarant and tampons.&amp;nbsp; Krystal would rub the tampon on the deodarant and then onto a magazine or newspaper and the tampon would pick up the ink.&amp;nbsp; The she used a stencil she made and rubbed the edges with her "crayon" making pretty shapes on her letters to her son and mom.&amp;nbsp; &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/-EL3Jd0RXmY"&gt;(Krystal making her cards is at the 2:00 minute mark in the video)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;I was so impressed with how creative she was and thought to myself, "Man, I think if I was in jail this would be me."&amp;nbsp; I hope I would be so creative anyway!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;Thank you Krystal for sharing your story with the world and I wish you, your son and your mom the best of luck and that you have a happy life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-7581342889111041947?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/kRtxfAt5Afw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/kRtxfAt5Afw/girl-can-loose-her-freedom-but-not-her.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/09/girl-can-loose-her-freedom-but-not-her.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-5399894964056204064</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-07T15:41:59.579-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">about me</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">school</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Jace</category><title>No More Babies at Home :(</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Jace has slept with me and Earl since he was born.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The last 2 nights though he has decided to sleep in his own room.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;It was nice to have the extra room in bed,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;but I sure did miss snuggling up next to him.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Remember Mom,&amp;nbsp;he's a big boy now.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Jace woke up and immediately got dressed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;He brushed his teeth and came down ready to go to school.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;We got Ezie and Mallory off and then the wait began.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;An hour and 10 minutes of waiting&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;and waiting&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;but with a big smile on his face.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and then my baby&amp;nbsp;was gone.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Hardly even a "bye mom"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;gone just like that.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EWcxPTs0f8Y/TmfFM2nFXgI/AAAAAAAAJQU/r3eDIx8unjY/s1600/DSCN1740.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" nba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EWcxPTs0f8Y/TmfFM2nFXgI/AAAAAAAAJQU/r3eDIx8unjY/s320/DSCN1740.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Jace should be home in 30 minutes &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;and we're all so excited to get him off the bus &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;and see how his first full day of school was.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I hope it was magical&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;but,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I bet I have a tired little guy tonight!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I sure did miss my Jace today!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-5399894964056204064?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/lpymO3JsnCI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/lpymO3JsnCI/no-more-babies-at-home.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eez3pn08MVQ/TmfFIpHwPVI/AAAAAAAAJQM/NhMkJKBKBkU/s72-c/DSCN1721.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/09/no-more-babies-at-home.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-5350280053204935214</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-06T20:25:46.320-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">shoes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">school</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Mallory</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Earl</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ezie</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Jace</category><title>The First Day of School for My Kiddo's</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Today was the kids first day of school.&amp;nbsp; Ezie is in 7th grade, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Mallory started middle school and is in 6th grade&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;and my baby, Jace started Kindergarten.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div align="center"&gt;The annual shoes first day of school new shoes pic.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I am very proud of my kids because they settle for very inexpensive shoes this year &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;and Jace was content with a pair of new to me shoes.&lt;br /&gt;
(Thanks Levi &amp;amp; Leo!)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Since Earl had lost his job the money just wasn't there for name brand shoes &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;and the kids did great&amp;nbsp;about not complaining.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Thanks guys!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EobGMKkM7Os/Tma3H8Z8q5I/AAAAAAAAJQA/lAD04Axr1LY/s1600/DSCN1695.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212px" nba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EobGMKkM7Os/Tma3H8Z8q5I/AAAAAAAAJQA/lAD04Axr1LY/s320/DSCN1695.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Daddy getting Ezie and Mallory on the bus.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div align="center"&gt;and finally Daddy and Jace walking into school.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Jace only had a 30 minute orientation today&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;and he can't wait until tomorrow &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;when he has a full day and gets to eat lunch at school and ride the bus.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BzNrHakmF8k/Tma3O4qGz4I/AAAAAAAAJQI/HOLwQ6JFxC4/s1600/DSCN1705.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213px" nba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BzNrHakmF8k/Tma3O4qGz4I/AAAAAAAAJQI/HOLwQ6JFxC4/s320/DSCN1705.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align="center"&gt;The kids all had a great day!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Tomorrow will be my first day without having anyone at home :(&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Jace told me not to worry that our dog Charlie&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;would be home to take care of me and snuggle with me at nap time&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;oh, and he also told me that I could play his computer games.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-5350280053204935214?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/UtasYq4Am5A" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/UtasYq4Am5A/first-day-of-school-for-my-kiddos.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6jcjXQKamt8/Tma3FU1fHqI/AAAAAAAAJP8/fPBiIocItqA/s72-c/DSCN1691-1.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/09/first-day-of-school-for-my-kiddos.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-8300948782777664174</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-05T16:11:47.019-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">about me</category><title>I Got My Blog Fixed!  Yay Me!</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;People have been telling me for quite awhile that they couldn't leave comments on my blog.&amp;nbsp; I've changed my settings and tried several times to figure out what was wrong with it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Well........the problem was me!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;When I changed the colors on my blog last time I must have put white on white.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Duh Sherry....White doesn't show up on white!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;So now that my blog is "fixed"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I expect &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;LOTS &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;of comments!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Have a wonderful day!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-8300948782777664174?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/kLBFLNwQSpM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/kLBFLNwQSpM/i-got-my-blog-fixed-yay-me.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-got-my-blog-fixed-yay-me.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-3601606182694888113</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-31T10:35:04.765-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Stacey</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sick</category><title>Prayers Needed!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YcCVX9wvwuo/Tl5EY8ebIrI/AAAAAAAAJPo/vQ1OtRrFZrU/s1600/DSCN1210.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YcCVX9wvwuo/Tl5EY8ebIrI/AAAAAAAAJPo/vQ1OtRrFZrU/s320/DSCN1210.JPG" width="320px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;My sister, Stacey, started having some hearing loss a few months ago and after getting it checked out found out that she has an acoustic neuroma (benign brain tumor).&amp;nbsp; Stacey is having the tumor removed today.&amp;nbsp; The surgery is a 6-10 hour process and she will probably have some balance issues afterwards along with a long recovery period.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Please keep Stacey in your thoughts and prayers.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Send lots of positive thoughts to her!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I know she will appreciate it and I definitely will!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Thanks!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-3601606182694888113?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/T0e5PHuVW5g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/T0e5PHuVW5g/prayers-needed.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YcCVX9wvwuo/Tl5EY8ebIrI/AAAAAAAAJPo/vQ1OtRrFZrU/s72-c/DSCN1210.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/08/prayers-needed.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-1766734585332389096</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-30T16:39:36.980-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">crochet</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Mallory</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Earl</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">rag rugs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ezie</category><title>Making Rag Rugs</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I've been making rag rugs lately.&amp;nbsp; There fun and&amp;nbsp;inexpensive to make.&amp;nbsp; Earl and I have been going to&amp;nbsp;thrift stores and buying old sheets.&amp;nbsp; I bring them home, wash and dry them, make slits in the fabric and then we rip the sheets into strips for me to crochet.&amp;nbsp; Earl and the kids have been a huge help with the ripping of the sheets.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ezie and Mallory are helping with their own technique of ripping.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I guess you have to make it fun!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and hey, whatever works and they're getting along is fine with me!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;and here are some of my end results....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AJT43Tx3Kpo/Tl1IZkv4U-I/AAAAAAAAJPY/SUi_JBDVN3U/s1600/DSCN1618.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AJT43Tx3Kpo/Tl1IZkv4U-I/AAAAAAAAJPY/SUi_JBDVN3U/s320/DSCN1618.JPG" width="320px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1czSwhqyU9g/Tl1IboC15iI/AAAAAAAAJPg/7e66JF9ZRPE/s1600/DSCN1404.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="227px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1czSwhqyU9g/Tl1IboC15iI/AAAAAAAAJPg/7e66JF9ZRPE/s320/DSCN1404.JPG" width="320px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I think they're turning out really pretty!&amp;nbsp; It's been a fun way to be creative and recycle, reuse and go green!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-1766734585332389096?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/QycOeMsaJSk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/QycOeMsaJSk/making-rag-rugs.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Q9rgdDLAYds/Tl1Hxox_8pI/AAAAAAAAJPQ/aEC_O6Bl3SM/s72-c/DSCN1408.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/08/making-rag-rugs.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-5772547959012961906</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-18T11:23:07.093-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Mallory</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">birthday's</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Jace</category><title>My Mallory Turned 11!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Mallory turned 11 last week.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Our neighbor gave her a certificate for her birthday&amp;nbsp;to drive his red tractor around his backyard.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Mallory was so excited and nervous, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;but she did a great job and had fun!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;My babies are growing up way to fast.&amp;nbsp; Mallory and Ezie will both be in Middle School this year and Jace starts Kindergarten.&amp;nbsp; Earl got his job back at the bus garage and I am going to go full force into my sewing and crocheting business now that I am home by myself all day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I did tell Jace that I need a "Pillow Pet" to snuggle with while I take my nap since he won't be home to be my snugglebuddy.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I sure will miss my baby!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;although Jace says,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;"I'm not a baby Mom!&amp;nbsp; I'm big now"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;sniff....sniff&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;little tears in my eyes&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-5772547959012961906?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/UNmS_rqTBu0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/UNmS_rqTBu0/my-mallory-turned-11.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H8M2sS14FBw/Tk0r-vOWOmI/AAAAAAAAJOg/nG6288kUmAE/s72-c/DSCN1458-1.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/08/my-mallory-turned-11.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-4228664409619620724</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-09T12:38:02.329-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">other blogs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">trees</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Swaps</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">brown paper bags</category><title>What I Received From the Brown Paper Bag Swap</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Sorry I know I'm a late posting this, but I left the charger to my camera in Maine and was waiting for it to get mailed back to me.&amp;nbsp; Now if I could just get all the beach sand out of it so it won't be tempermental.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I received this gorgeous and super creative art piece from &lt;a href="http://www.viewsfromtheporch.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ellen&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;\&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I made some eggs by covering plastic Easter Eggs in brown paper bag strips and then painting them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I used a deli style plastic bowl for the nest and covered it in brown paper bag strips first and then added some ????, I can't think of what you call that stuff.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Brain Fart!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I also made my partners a matchbox ornament.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I covered the box with brown paper bag and then added a paper rose to it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I also made each of my partners 4 cards out of brown paper bags.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I made the owl out of brown bags and then embellished with printed paper and colored pencils.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and then I made the envelopes for the cards out of brown bags and lined them with printed paper.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8531551958509904329-5782808506746691954?l=ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~4/thnAYFxaaDU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IfICouldSetMySoulFree/~3/thnAYFxaaDU/my-brown-paper-bag-projects-for-this.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sherry)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dhdUxveZoh4/TjIVDNH03qI/AAAAAAAAJMw/zVQwB6F-TvA/s72-c/DSCN1142.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://ificouldsetmysoulfree.blogspot.com/2011/07/my-brown-paper-bag-projects-for-this.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531551958509904329.post-4375128152078185446</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-26T10:53:55.867-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tawashi</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">thrifted crafts</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Swaps</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">crochet</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">lady bugs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ornaments</category><title>FlowerFairies and LadyBugs</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I thought I'd share a few of the things I've made over the last couple of months.&amp;nbsp; I've kept really busy making things and it has actually been nice.&amp;nbsp; The computer is so addictive.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I bought this little Lady Bug basket at the thrift store.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; It was all green and kind of plain,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;so.........&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I spray painted it black and added some ribbon.&amp;nbsp; I think it looks much better now!&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A very quick and easy transformation of a simple thrift store item.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I hope Jill liked it!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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