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I work from home teaching people how to create art and make beautiful crafts. I am in love with nature and color and putting those thoughts and feelings on paper. </description><link>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>917</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/ABfd" /><feedburner:info uri="blogspot/abfd" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-5634502418788636708</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-20T08:50:13.384-04:00</atom:updated><title>Balancing Act and a Twitter Party</title><description>Popping in to share this with you today! If you get Lifetime you definitely don't want to miss "The Balancing Act" -- and it's airing tomorrow -- May 21. &lt;br /&gt;
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There's also going to be a twitter party, so don't miss it!&amp;nbsp; So, be sure to join in on the fun by joining me and other members of the Sizzix team as we 
host a Twitter chat about all things Sizzix! &amp;nbsp;Join us on Twitter for fun crafty talk and questions and answers about 
Sizzix products.&lt;br /&gt;
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You can find us -- TODAY HERE: &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Sizzix_US" target="_blank"&gt;https://twitter.com/Sizzix_US&lt;/a&gt; at 3pm PST -- be there or be square!&lt;br /&gt;
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Thanks for stopping by --- have a great day. &lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/WjQrhljxn3M/balancing-act-and-twitter-party.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e39HN6y61Ps/UZoZ-EqRaSI/AAAAAAAALQU/SXW_kgt8Yco/s72-c/BA_Button_One_350-787459.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/05/balancing-act-and-twitter-party.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-7771441381559395774</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 16:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-16T12:24:57.398-04:00</atom:updated><title>It's that time of the Year: Annual trek to Brimfield </title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
Today I thought I would share a few fun pictures from my annual trip to Brimfield this week. This year I took my son as all my other friends had scheduling conflicts and my husband couldn't take the day off of work. Since my son is 13 and it seems like all we do is fight and argue I thought it would be a great to spend the day together doing something we both love. &lt;/div&gt;
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I'm happy that I asked him to come along, we had a great day and he went along with all my silliness, like the picture below, ha ha. Of course, I did lay down the law first thing! If you're coming here with me you HAVE to play along with the silly pictures. &lt;/div&gt;
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A little fake smile, but that's ok. &lt;/div&gt;
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Every year I take a picture of these funky latex glove forms, they are always waving! &lt;/div&gt;
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I was so in love with these little rusted wire faces -- but I wanted them individually. I might have to make a few and put them on stakes...they really made me happy! &lt;/div&gt;
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This foot was huge - my size 9 foot was the size of it's pinky toe, lol. &lt;br /&gt;
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I thought this mask was kinda cool. He didn't.&lt;br /&gt;
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Hey, hello again. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Creepy baby parts in a cool jar&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Trims galore. Loved the way these were set up with similar colors together. It looked fabulous! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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That's it for pictures. IT was the perfect day as far as weather, company and driving. I'm hoping to go back again this summer with my sweet friend that couldn't come this time. Crossing my fingers!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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THANKS for stopping by -- have a GREAT day. &lt;/div&gt;
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</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/JyZAWKZl6q0/its-that-time-of-year-annual-trek-to.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--kdWVEIOJ00/UZT5FoMChkI/AAAAAAAALOA/-D1Gu1trdU8/s72-c/IMG_9195-790088.jpeg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/05/its-that-time-of-year-annual-trek-to.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-3834736838271969731</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-16T12:47:13.440-04:00</atom:updated><title>It's Whatever's Time for May!! </title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;edited to add:&lt;/i&gt; I just realized that I forgot to put the links over to Nat and Vic's blogs -- what can I say but SORRY gals-- &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;it wa&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;s mi&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;dnight after a long day of driving a&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;nd &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I'd been up for 20 h&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;ours&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; Please check out Nat and Vic's pages&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; f&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;or May here: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nathaliesstudio.com/2013/05/15/whatevers-11-or-times-are-changing/" target="_blank"&gt;Nat: The Times they are cha&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;nging! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;ALIVE                 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;in  connection with the disappearance of local man; Winston Whatever. A  gang of thirteen men, women and children thought to be members of an  elite team of Ninja Warriors posing as Circus Actors are targeted with  the disappearance of Mr. Whatever. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9LHI2E5Gu-I/UZLwIjKguSI/AAAAAAAALLo/VYyWr931BUA/s1600/IMG_9193-725536.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5878024493340866850" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9LHI2E5Gu-I/UZLwIjKguSI/AAAAAAAALLo/VYyWr931BUA/s320/IMG_9193-725536.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Mildred, 10&lt;br /&gt;
Hazel, 23&lt;br /&gt;
Minnie, 29&lt;br /&gt;
Nellie, 42&lt;br /&gt;
Cora, 36&lt;br /&gt;
Fannie, 71&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dH9LFfOqPXk/UZLwNOzUpfI/AAAAAAAALNI/KZ9U1Ig-1_M/s1600/IMG_9177-744278.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5878024573774243314" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dH9LFfOqPXk/UZLwNOzUpfI/AAAAAAAALNI/KZ9U1Ig-1_M/s320/IMG_9177-744278.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Melvin, 11 &lt;br /&gt;
Roscoe, 45&lt;br /&gt;
Cornelius, 31&lt;br /&gt;
Orville, 53&lt;br /&gt;
Percy, 72&lt;br /&gt;
Horace, 38&lt;br /&gt;
Oscar, age unknown&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xY9GZ4x2EXE/UZLwJcL8R8I/AAAAAAAALL0/iiy64WZEez0/s1600/IMG_9192-729009.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5878024508647688130" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xY9GZ4x2EXE/UZLwJcL8R8I/AAAAAAAALL0/iiy64WZEez0/s320/IMG_9192-729009.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Cordelia could hardly believe her eyes – she was overwhelmed and about to faint from the sheer shock of reading the headline “13 Wanted in Mystery Disappearance of Local Man!” What was more shocking to her was the fact that there were children and women involved. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_VmXkK5LVOc/UZLwKLwKuXI/AAAAAAAALMA/a8eiWsPlRhM/s1600/IMG_9191-732105.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5878024521416096114" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_VmXkK5LVOc/UZLwKLwKuXI/AAAAAAAALMA/a8eiWsPlRhM/s320/IMG_9191-732105.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0-_vfdOKizM/UZLwKuhK2xI/AAAAAAAALMM/P3ZKA49zWao/s1600/IMG_9189-734109.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5878024530748431122" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0-_vfdOKizM/UZLwKuhK2xI/AAAAAAAALMM/P3ZKA49zWao/s320/IMG_9189-734109.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;As she skimmed the article, she couldn’t help but have a little hope that her sweet Winston would be home soon. Ever since those women had found the note the case had been moving along – he had to be found soon. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LZUT95jQ3As/UZLwMG0U4mI/AAAAAAAALMw/uGtzApceBEw/s1600/IMG_9183-740220.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5878024554451100258" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LZUT95jQ3As/UZLwMG0U4mI/AAAAAAAALMw/uGtzApceBEw/s320/IMG_9183-740220.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;Oh  please. Let him come home soon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;PHEW -- I know, I managed to leave you hanging ONCE again! Stay tuned for June to see how this story turns out for the Whatevers! &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Want to play along?? We have just a few things to let you know about:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wHVSF0g1e-I/UZL3tLDV89I/AAAAAAAALNU/PZJ2YM1A3CA/s1600/11_April2013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wHVSF0g1e-I/UZL3tLDV89I/AAAAAAAALNU/PZJ2YM1A3CA/s200/11_April2013.jpg" width="147" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"&gt;Vicki, Nat and I have made a&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;one-year commitment&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;to each other and picked twelve photos with Whatevers whom we will give a story.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"&gt;Every month –&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;if possible always on the 15th&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;– &amp;nbsp;each of us will do a post with an individual story that goes along for us with the same photo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"&gt;If you want&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;you can play along&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;and we will have the&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;photo&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;for you – just right click on it to safe it to&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;download&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;and show us your version of The Whatevers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"&gt;There are &lt;b&gt;no rules to the story&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;itself- it can be funny, sad, uplifting, breathtaking- WHATEVER&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"&gt;There are &lt;b&gt;no rules on the length or the form of the story&lt;/b&gt;- it can be a short sentence, an essay, a poem or a soap opera – WHATEVER&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"&gt;There are &lt;b&gt;no rules on the art form you choose&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;– it can be a scrapbook layout, an altered art project, an art journal page – WHATEVER&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"&gt;Here is&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;a rule&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;though: if you take the photo you have to&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;link back to us&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&lt;b&gt; show us your story&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"&gt;These pictures are from our personal stash and are for&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;personal use for you only&lt;/b&gt;! If you want to use them for a publication whether a book or magazine in print or digital form please ask for permission!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"&gt;If you want to participate we’ll have a linky list for each Whatever Post.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"&gt;You can also join our&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/WhateversCreativeStorytelling"&gt;The Whatevers -Facebook Page&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
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</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/IO9JWIzGcrk/its-whatevers-time-for-may.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GFqW-RaK95c/UZLwMhXTWrI/AAAAAAAALM8/tKJKlZ7th0c/s72-c/IMG_9181-742113.jpeg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/05/its-whatevers-time-for-may.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-7624276172590847800</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 13:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-13T10:25:47.097-04:00</atom:updated><title>In + Out Series WEEK!! </title><description>&lt;div&gt;
Today I wanted to share some links to my In + Out Series classes that I'm teaching over at &lt;a href="http://www.mycreativeclassroom.com/" target="_blank"&gt;My Creative Classroom. &lt;/a&gt;These are ONE lesson classes that I have offered once a month since the beginning of the year.&lt;br /&gt;
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Some of them are technique classes and some of them are project classes. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.mycreativeclassroom.com/course/info.php?id=717" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="art journal class at My Creative Classroom with Catherine Scanlon" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5877142463538689394" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7wextjvl3Pw/UY_N7qGWdXI/AAAAAAAALK8/OiASYcLzDjg/s320/In%252BOut-761784.jpg" title="In + Out Journal" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
But in each of them you get TONS of video and information. The Art Journal one that I had last fall was EXTREMELY popular -- so popular that we decided to run it again.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.mycreativeclassroom.com/course/info.php?id=760" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="watercolor painting for stampers class at my creative classroom with Catherine Scanlon" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5877142454736601666" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yLO0s6rkfWE/UY_N7JTxQkI/AAAAAAAALKs/3lfR3AbddKg/s320/In%2B%252B%2BOut%2BWC-759919.jpg" title="in + out watercolor for stampers" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
In the Watercolor for Stampers and In&amp;nbsp;+ Out Embossing classes you will learn everything you need to know to add these two beautiful techniques to your cards and stamped projects.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.mycreativeclassroom.com/course/info.php?id=761" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="embossing techniques for stampers at My Creative Classroom with Catherine Scanlon" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5877142427883633538" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OAo_q2E7vO4/UY_N5lRhe4I/AAAAAAAALKY/A1TgWcm97dg/s320/In%2B%252B%2BOut%2BEmbossing%2BSmall-754191.jpg" title="in + out embossing" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
For the Easter class I'm sharing a sweet and easy way to make an Easter Decoration that everyone will love. (Note: While I realize it's not Easter right now -- you can use the techniques to create any project like this -- and what a SWEET Fairy House or other child's project it would be!)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.mycreativeclassroom.com/course/info.php?id=771" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Easter Decorations at My Creative Classroom with Catherine Scanlon" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5877142417629658738" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3WJU2aIemBg/UY_N4_EyPnI/AAAAAAAALKM/MBgDzuDKwSI/s320/In%2B%252B%2BOut%2BEaster-750859.jpg" title="In + Out Easter" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
Spellbinders Mix + Match was another EXTREMELY popular course -- in this class you'll learn tons of techniques and I'll share step by steps to create 3 creative and beautiful cards you can whip up in NO time! &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.mycreativeclassroom.com/course/info.php?id=776" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="cool spellbinders edgeabilities class at My Creative Classroom with Catherine Scanlon" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5877142445955532306" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bIxgF_F6QUw/UY_N6omMxhI/AAAAAAAALKk/yYRkN7RPEhs/s320/in%2B%252B%2Bout%2Bmix%2B%252B%2Bmatch%2Bcopy-758014.jpeg" title="in + out spellbinders mix + match" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I've included the links on each image so you can click on it to go to My Creative Classroom and read the entire class description, supply list and other pertinent information you might have.&lt;br /&gt;
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For the In&amp;nbsp;+ Out Series I'm offering a special incentive if you sign up to take them all!! That means if you sign up for all of the new classes that run for the first time from January, 2013 to December 2013 you'll qualify for a FREE class at the end of 2013. However there are a few rules -- and I should say at this point that "In + Out Journal" is not one of the classes that qualify for this deal. So, if you want to catch up and qualify for the free class at the end of the year now's the time to enroll as I'm not sure if we will have another catch up week this year.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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And, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email me at the email address that is listed on the course information!&lt;br /&gt;
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THANKS for stopping by -- have a GREAT day.&lt;br /&gt;
Catherine &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/oPdt2Zl98RI/in-out-series-week.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7wextjvl3Pw/UY_N7qGWdXI/AAAAAAAALK8/OiASYcLzDjg/s72-c/In%252BOut-761784.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/05/in-out-series-week.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-9167241530258704073</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-11T06:30:02.658-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Kept Creations</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Catherine Scanlon</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Art Journal</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Round Robin Art Journal</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Art from the Heart</category><title>Art Journal Round Robin</title><description>Today I wanted to share a fun project I did with some brave and creative women when I was at Kept Creations in Whitman, Mass last Saturday. I call this Round Robin Art Journal Page -- and it is a TON of fun. Great for anyone whether they can draw or not.&lt;br /&gt;
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We started out drawing on a piece of 9 x 12 Mixed Media Paper from Strathmore. We each drew on our own page for 3 minutes -- which was a VERY long time. When the timer went off we sent our page off to the rest of the group and then drew for 1 minute on each of the pages as they came around.&lt;br /&gt;
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I think we had 6 or 7 people in the Round Robin -- plenty of people to fill up EVERY page with unique, creative and beautiful shapes and images.&lt;br /&gt;
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This week I had time to add some color to mine using the Sakura Gelly Pens.&lt;br /&gt;
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The only problem with them -- not enough colors&amp;nbsp; :-D&lt;/div&gt;
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I absolutely love the opaqueness of them! &lt;/div&gt;
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The next time you gather with a group of art journalers or friends -- consider spending 15 minutes on a round robin! &lt;/div&gt;
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Thanks for stopping by -- have a great weekend and HAPPY Mother's Day! &lt;/div&gt;
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</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/pvKesoLKxpM/art-journal-round-robin.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--kTuxQH_bwQ/UY0aI0phcjI/AAAAAAAALIc/6p0fJvIF83A/s72-c/IMG_9079-762921.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/05/art-journal-round-robin.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-5449883456457004224</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-15T23:00:23.008-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Mother's Day</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Mother's Day Paper Quilt by Catherine Scanlon</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Hexagon Die</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sizzix</category><title>Mother's Day Hexagon Paper Quilt</title><description>&lt;div&gt;
Over on the &lt;a href="http://sizzixblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/colorful-paper-quilt.html" target="_blank"&gt;Sizzix blog&lt;/a&gt; this week (yesterday) I shared how to create a beautiful paper quilt using the Hexagon die....head on over to see how I create that from start to finish! &lt;/div&gt;
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You'll also see how create the pretty painted image!&lt;br /&gt;
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While you are visiting, you should take a minute to check out all the beautiful inspiration &lt;a href="http://sizzixblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;the team&lt;/a&gt; has shared for Mother's Day!&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/hO8JrQKY4qw/mothers-day-hexagon-paper-quilt.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4FlTp0seKrg/UY0TUUWZ_nI/AAAAAAAALHw/sRWzjGF9oWY/s72-c/Sizzix%2BCMS%2BMay-716022.jpeg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/05/mothers-day-hexagon-paper-quilt.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-5242862572266818104</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 12:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-02T08:16:25.575-04:00</atom:updated><title>Check out my Project over n the Sizzix Blog!</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;Since Mother's Day is RIGHT AROUND the Corner (May 12th in case you need a reminder) and I thought I would share this sweet little canvas (5 x 5) that I created for my first post over on the Sizziz blog. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;The post has a complete supply list, instructions and step-out photos to make is SUPER easy for you to create for a sweet Mama in your life! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;Thanks for stopping by today -- have a great THURSDAY!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;PS. don't forget I'll be at Kept Creations in Whitman, Massa&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;c&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;husetts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on Saturday teaching an all day workshop&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; Art Journal Toolbox -- hope to see you there! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/6C1Kp6aVKLA/check-out-my-project-over-n-sizzix-blog.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o8duw_bc1ms/UXSB5NFFgXI/AAAAAAAALC0/Qrjbp0NfkaY/s72-c/IMG_8904-724361.jpeg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/05/check-out-my-project-over-n-sizzix-blog.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-7457920221865775179</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 17:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-01T13:40:24.016-04:00</atom:updated><title>In + Out Floral Collage starts on Monday!</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;Quick reminder that my &lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;next and new&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt; class that is starting at My Creative Classroom,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;in + out floral collage&lt;/span&gt; will be starting on Monday May 6th! Get all the details &lt;a href="http://www.mycreativeclassroom.com/course/info.php?id=727" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;! &lt;/div&gt;
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</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/SHi1A3Zl8_w/in-out-floral-collage.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dy-5UwdVvEQ/UXWU9aB15JI/AAAAAAAALDY/Ungkj-sP7fM/s72-c/In%2B%252B%2BOut%2BSeries-740961.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/05/in-out-floral-collage.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-7812717574813141825</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-04-29T09:50:44.873-04:00</atom:updated><title>Weekend Re-Cap - Right at Home Scrapbooking</title><description>I was at one of my favorite places to teach over the weekend -- Right at Home Scrapbooking in North Attleboro, MA teaching one of my favorite art techniques -- monoprinting!&lt;br /&gt;
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I just loved seeing the lightbulb come on for everyone as they watched my demos and then experimented with their own Gelli Plates. &lt;br /&gt;
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It was a FULL day of printing -- in the morning I taught them all about the plate and lots of cool ways to get texture and use various tools with the paper and plate. &lt;br /&gt;
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We laughed a lot. And got a lot of shoppers interested in what we were up to. We laughed a LOT!&lt;br /&gt;
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In the afternoon I showed them how to create this lovely project. I think they all loved it. I know they all did an amazing job with playing and experimenting. &lt;br /&gt;
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It was great fun -- can't wait to go back.&lt;br /&gt;
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Next weekend I'll be at&lt;a href="http://keptcreations.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt; Kept Creations&lt;/a&gt; in Whitman MA teaching my Art Journal Toolbox class. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.keptcreations.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Check out their website here&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;
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Have a great day -- hope to see you in a class soon! AND ps. if you are interested in having me teach in your store send me an email -- you can find my address in the Contact Me page listed on the right---&amp;gt;!&lt;/div&gt;
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</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/xaZIVjcqOK0/weekend-re-cap-right-at-home.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ahT26m6sois/UX53XeOPXQI/AAAAAAAALEM/R9YGexG07pw/s72-c/IMG_8976-789141.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/04/weekend-re-cap-right-at-home.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-6322450496056278310</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-04-25T06:00:06.818-04:00</atom:updated><title>DIY Smash Art Journal</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;This week I'll be working with some girls art a local school to share with them how to make a smash journal from scraps of papers&amp;nbsp; and add paints and other elements.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Here are some of the pages from my sample journal:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;This is my favorite -- and the front page of the journal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f9nX0rQZ1Do/UWRyB92XWwI/AAAAAAAAK3E/YJBNdsjSpsg/s1600/IMG_8722-786864.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5864937992851249922" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f9nX0rQZ1Do/UWRyB92XWwI/AAAAAAAAK3E/YJBNdsjSpsg/s400/IMG_8722-786864.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;One with a little paint and stapled elements.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;And a recycled Hallmark bag.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;And what you can do with a few paint chips.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;This journal was made with old scrapbook papers and my Cinch binding system -- so fun and easy! I &lt;strike&gt;think&lt;/strike&gt; hope the girls are going to like it!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;That's all for today, thanks for stopping by. Hope you have a great day!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/w-Tox_X-NwM/diy-smash-art-journal.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f9nX0rQZ1Do/UWRyB92XWwI/AAAAAAAAK3E/YJBNdsjSpsg/s72-c/IMG_8722-786864.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/04/diy-smash-art-journal.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-6473766830947137357</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-04-24T09:00:56.352-04:00</atom:updated><title>Right at Home Scrapbooking</title><description>For those local artists -- I've got two workshops this weekend in North Attleboro at Right at Home Scrapbooking! Friday night is an art Journaling Open House. We'll have a little snack and chat time and then make some art in our journals from 7 to 10. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.rightathome.typepad.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5870394495771172770" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aPSbMWIW03A/UXfUsPPZX6I/AAAAAAAALDs/A0GKgoZWGus/s320/Art%2BJournaling%2BRAH%2B4%2B26-727442.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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On Saturday it's all about learning how to monoprint using the Gelli Plate -- from 10 to 4 with a break for lunch! I'll teach you everything you need to know to make beautiful collage papers. In the afternoon we'll create a beautiful project!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.rightathome.typepad.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5870394500867435858" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8pv_o1KfXwc/UXfUsiOcLVI/AAAAAAAALD4/5k4EJtwNBAs/s320/RAH%2BMonoprinting-730391.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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For more information, check out their &lt;a href="http://www.rightathome.typepad.com/" target="_blank"&gt;blog here &lt;/a&gt;or contact Lisa or Sharon at the store:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Right at Home Scrapbooking&lt;br /&gt;
560 Kelley Boulevard&lt;br /&gt;
North Attleboro, MA 02760&lt;br /&gt;
508-695-9290&lt;/div&gt;
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Or post a comment with your reply email and I will answer any questions you might have! Enjoy your day and thanks for stopping by!&amp;nbsp; </description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/nKlkbkgff4k/right-at-home-scrapbooking.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aPSbMWIW03A/UXfUsPPZX6I/AAAAAAAALDs/A0GKgoZWGus/s72-c/Art%2BJournaling%2BRAH%2B4%2B26-727442.jpeg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/04/right-at-home-scrapbooking.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-3890346855156466946</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-04-23T06:00:15.017-04:00</atom:updated><title>RD 21 Challenge #2</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Thought I'd share a fun art journal page I did a while back, it turned out to be a favorite from some of my recent pages.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;I started by collaging some vintage papers to my Mixed Media Paper from Strathmore and sketching my design. Once I had the design all figured out I traced over it with a permanent marker and painted the background areas white.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E_6UhUQFXSw/UWRytLqKbMI/AAAAAAAAK54/gd8vfY4MyL4/s1600/IMG_8712-760293.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5864938735292542146" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E_6UhUQFXSw/UWRytLqKbMI/AAAAAAAAK54/gd8vfY4MyL4/s400/IMG_8712-760293.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Once I was happy with the base art I used my Tim Holtz Distress paints to add some&amp;nbsp; color. My Gelly Pens were just right for some added details here and there.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;I do love the way it turned out. Thanks for stopping by today -- have an artful day -- and make some time to make a little art just for you today! &lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/uMkRM5uzRpA/rd-21-challenge-2.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E_6UhUQFXSw/UWRytLqKbMI/AAAAAAAAK54/gd8vfY4MyL4/s72-c/IMG_8712-760293.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/04/rd-21-challenge-2.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-8882521582990180600</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-04-22T14:52:26.162-04:00</atom:updated><title>Weekend at Kept Creations: A VERY Late Re-Cap</title><description>I can't believe I forgot to post these fun project from my weekend at &lt;a href="http://www.keptcreations.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Kept Creations&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; in Whitman, Massachusetts. I had two classes of very FUN and inspiring ladies -- see for yourself!&lt;br /&gt;
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The first class was a sweet Shadowbox ATC:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MNiJLwmyWRg/UWRyJgKiFJI/AAAAAAAAK30/9DHLf8sYOs8/s1600/IMG_8715-718213.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5864938122321728658" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MNiJLwmyWRg/UWRyJgKiFJI/AAAAAAAAK30/9DHLf8sYOs8/s320/IMG_8715-718213.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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And I didn't get any photos of the second class -- but it was Watercolor Painting for Stampers and it was a HIT! I'll be&amp;nbsp; back on May 4th for an all day Art Journaling class -- so be sure to sign up while there is still space available.&lt;br /&gt;
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Thanks for stopping by -- have a great day!&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/AyWNlWP525k/weekend-at-kept-creations-very-late-re.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MNiJLwmyWRg/UWRyJgKiFJI/AAAAAAAAK30/9DHLf8sYOs8/s72-c/IMG_8715-718213.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/04/weekend-at-kept-creations-very-late-re.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-6640065715545360460</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-04-15T05:00:04.863-04:00</atom:updated><title>It's Whatever Time -- April is here! </title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 125%; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &amp;quot;Arial Unicode MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;It's the time of the month again -- when Nat, Vic and I reveal the latest about what our Whatever Characters are doing!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

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&lt;a href="http://wp.me/p1ILec-2qm" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 125%; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &amp;quot;Arial Unicode MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;Check out what Nat is up to here!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://vickichrisman.blogspot.com/2013/04/april-whatevers.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 125%; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &amp;quot;Arial Unicode MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;Check out what Vic is up to here!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;;"&gt;They found the note scrawled in a scrap of wood that was covered in layers of weathered and crackled paint. The note might have been as old as the scrap of wood – but Grandma could tell it wasn’t. The scratches looked “too new”. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-50Cjc3IVkjU/UWuJ5UOMWuI/AAAAAAAAK_c/tM6Wh49t2Go/s1600/IMG_8799-749338.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5866934549698987362" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b_ZXumruQsM/UWuJ43tGRWI/AAAAAAAAK_Q/TwzJl8g2Xzs/s320/IMG_8798-746803.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;;"&gt;Grandma immediately started thinking.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Tip4tb-reu4/UWuJ5mJ-uVI/AAAAAAAAK_o/kkDfotbgG2k/s1600/IMG_8803-750582.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5866934562168158546" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Tip4tb-reu4/UWuJ5mJ-uVI/AAAAAAAAK_o/kkDfotbgG2k/s320/IMG_8803-750582.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;;"&gt;Who needed her help.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h7sMW7AIz3M/UWuJ6JXzA1I/AAAAAAAAK_0/TXLTo0dCV5k/s1600/IMG_8805-752480.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5866934571621352274" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h7sMW7AIz3M/UWuJ6JXzA1I/AAAAAAAAK_0/TXLTo0dCV5k/s320/IMG_8805-752480.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;;"&gt;Why did they need her help.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vIxh9HmZT_0/UWuJ70R3xnI/AAAAAAAALAY/UvtsW7wXhq0/s1600/IMG_8809-759176.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5866934600319092338" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vIxh9HmZT_0/UWuJ70R3xnI/AAAAAAAALAY/UvtsW7wXhq0/s320/IMG_8809-759176.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;;"&gt;What&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;;"&gt;could&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M9d1q4yyIPk/UWuJ6o68WiI/AAAAAAAALAA/i2T-JFsFKA0/s1600/IMG_8807-754395.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5866934580090264098" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M9d1q4yyIPk/UWuJ6o68WiI/AAAAAAAALAA/i2T-JFsFKA0/s320/IMG_8807-754395.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;;"&gt;she&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;;"&gt;do?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Stay tuned for May -- when things start coming together in this story -- maybe Grandma, her daughter and granddaughter (who looks strangley EXACTLY like Grandma) will help. But will they help Mother or Father or maybe one of the kids? hmmm. lots to think about this month.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Want to play along?? We have just a few things to let you know about:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Vicki, Nat and I have made a&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;one-year commitment&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;to each other and picked twelve photos with Whatevers whom we will give a story.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Every month –&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;if possible always on the 15th&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;– &amp;nbsp;each of us will do a post with an individual story that goes along for us with the same photo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;If you want&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;you can play along&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;and we will have the&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;photo&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;for you – just right click on it to safe it to&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;download&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;and show us your version of The Whatevers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;There are &lt;b&gt;no rules to the story&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;itself- it can be funny, sad, uplifting, breathtaking- WHATEVER&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;There are &lt;b&gt;no rules on the length or the form of the story&lt;/b&gt;- it can be a short sentence, an essay, a poem or a soap opera – WHATEVER&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;There are &lt;b&gt;no rules on the art form you choose&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;– it can be a scrapbook layout, an altered art project, an art journal page – WHATEVER&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Here is&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;a rule&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;though: if you take the photo you have to&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;link back to us&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&lt;b&gt; show us your story&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;These pictures are from our personal stash and are for&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;personal use for you only&lt;/b&gt;! If you want to use them for a publication whether a book or magazine in print or digital form please ask for permission!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;If you want to participate we’ll have a linky list for each Whatever Post.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;You can also join our&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/WhateversCreativeStorytelling"&gt;The Whatevers -Facebook Page&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
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</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/mGzIfunltgA/its-whatever-time-april-is-here.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-50Cjc3IVkjU/UWuJ5UOMWuI/AAAAAAAAK_c/tM6Wh49t2Go/s72-c/IMG_8799-749338.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/04/its-whatever-time-april-is-here.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-5007856102759372701</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-04-10T06:00:11.563-04:00</atom:updated><title>the Happy Birthday Project</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;I love how serendipitous (the faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident) things happen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;It's no secret by now that I'm a designer for Sizzix, and I think you also might know that the lovely and sweetest Tammy Tutterow is our fearless leader. I was more than a little bit ecstatic when I reviewed my work schedule for the week to see that I had penciled in that I would create one of my first projects for Sizzix and unbeknownst to me I would be posting it on her birthday. woohoo. happy dance. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;And, it was also serendipitous that I happened to pick up this sweet carnation stamp at Kept Creations on Saturday, everyone needs a little something new once in a while.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Since today is Tammy's birthday AND I scheduled today to create something for Sizzix it seemed to make sense that I dedicate my first project to her. So, here's to you Tammy -- I hope you have a great birthday!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;I think (well I hope) it's everything that you will love! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;I also thought I'd share some quick instructions to make the pretty carnations if you want to give it a shot!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;You will want to grab some tissue paper and the pretty Flowers #3 set from Stephanie Barnard. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Fold the tissue paper so you have at least 20 layers and use your Big Shot to cut them out.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;The stack of tissue paper flowers will look a lot like this when they come right out of the die.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;You really want them to look like this. I re-stacked about 10 of the tissue paper flowers into a random pile like this. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pRvwFZZi1ww/UWR3DHPiCrI/AAAAAAAAK9c/okauwNb3q4s/s1600/IMG_8742-771983.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5864943510110735026" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pRvwFZZi1ww/UWR3DHPiCrI/AAAAAAAAK9c/okauwNb3q4s/s400/IMG_8742-771983.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;I used some cotton pearl and a needle to sew one single stitch in the center of the stack. You'll want to tie a knot on the backside to keep them together and leave the tail about 3" long. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5864943515869059234" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j-LHPa4TCOk/UWR3DcsbGKI/AAAAAAAAK9o/uTWdPKW2BHs/s400/IMG_8745-773675.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Next just crunch them up to make your carnation.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mVRlnQXqz4k/UWR3D8tjXdI/AAAAAAAAK90/7Acc6FQEdhk/s1600/IMG_8747-775469.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5864943524463730130" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mVRlnQXqz4k/UWR3D8tjXdI/AAAAAAAAK90/7Acc6FQEdhk/s400/IMG_8747-775469.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;To add some color, spritz with your favorite spray ink, I used Cherry Cola Chalkboard from Tattered Angels. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SIEQK2CjN8g/UWR3ElzlvEI/AAAAAAAAK-M/PhFtWnZdcU8/s1600/IMG_8752-778442.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5864943535494904898" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SIEQK2CjN8g/UWR3ElzlvEI/AAAAAAAAK-M/PhFtWnZdcU8/s400/IMG_8752-778442.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;If you want to make your flower look like a bud, wrap some floral tape around the bottom and extend it down the tail a little bit and trim the tail off. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aFWbJyN3l0Y/UWR3FGVebtI/AAAAAAAAK-Y/70S0YGzBIF0/s1600/IMG_8753-780003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5864943544226967250" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aFWbJyN3l0Y/UWR3FGVebtI/AAAAAAAAK-Y/70S0YGzBIF0/s400/IMG_8753-780003.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Then you can use hot glue or any type of glue you like to to attach them to your project. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xufs4_QVBsY/UWR3FcSqO9I/AAAAAAAAK-k/mtJ_ediQ_as/s1600/IMG_8757-781745.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5864943550120737746" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xufs4_QVBsY/UWR3FcSqO9I/AAAAAAAAK-k/mtJ_ediQ_as/s400/IMG_8757-781745.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ka2x0eof5Lk/UWR3GEfUysI/AAAAAAAAK-w/rl_HmOaIQnc/s1600/IMG_8759-784060.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5864943560911276738" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ka2x0eof5Lk/UWR3GEfUysI/AAAAAAAAK-w/rl_HmOaIQnc/s400/IMG_8759-784060.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-95tBfhIEGt8/UWR3GgbPDaI/AAAAAAAAK-8/siEZG38U_ak/s1600/IMG_8760-785957.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5864943568410316194" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-95tBfhIEGt8/UWR3GgbPDaI/AAAAAAAAK-8/siEZG38U_ak/s400/IMG_8760-785957.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Supplies I used for this project:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Sizzix: Flowers #3 657901, Majestic #658693, Baroque #656633&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;My Mind's Eye Madison Avenue Lost and Found 6x6 Pad: MAD6x6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Stampendous Cling Carnation: CRP186&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Tim Holtz Stick Pin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Claudine Hellmuth Studio Paints - Pink &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Hug Snug Pale Pink Seam Binding, Martha Stewart Pink/Gold Ribbon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Canvas Corp.: 7 Gypsies Tissue Paper, Cherry Cola Chalkboard Spray&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Other: Vintage Paper Doily, Watercolor Paints, Foam Tape, Hot Glue Gun, Black StazOn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Thanks for dropping by today -- and please join me in wishing the lovely Tammy Tutterow a happy birthday!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/0u6OsswlvhE/the-happy-birthday-project_10.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ALrTUOwY-ZY/UWR2_tMnfiI/AAAAAAAAK8U/-CgVczyW8W0/s72-c/IMG_8733-758173.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>8</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-happy-birthday-project_10.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-8667516923780865699</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-04-02T09:02:50.861-04:00</atom:updated><title>Day 21 of the 21 Day Challenge</title><description>&lt;div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Phew. I did it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;21 Days of finding a little bit of time here and there to make some art in my art journal, just for me. It was awesome. And really, so easy to make the time for it -- I found a few minutes while the coffee was brewing in the morning, while the cake baked or the onions caramelized, watching a movie in the evening -- and so many other times during the day. Before I knew it I had a page that was complete.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XltV-z_U7wI/UVn1WKGGJVI/AAAAAAAAKx4/V_JayyysjHs/s1600/IMG_8660-707504.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5861986151015261522" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XltV-z_U7wI/UVn1WKGGJVI/AAAAAAAAKx4/V_JayyysjHs/s320/IMG_8660-707504.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Some days took more than one day to complete -- but it was good. That meant that I was definitely going to find the time the next day because I loved what I was creating. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;I've got a nice stack of pages to create into a new journal -- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;SEVENTEEN if them actually -- &lt;/span&gt;that I'm over the moon excited about. Today, since I'm nearing the end of a big project I thought I would share a few of my favorite pages from the last 21 days.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NHAjY8DBe2Q/UVn1WsTghdI/AAAAAAAAKyE/sYuAmbsCPR8/s1600/IMG_8354-709605.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5861986160198321618" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NHAjY8DBe2Q/UVn1WsTghdI/AAAAAAAAKyE/sYuAmbsCPR8/s320/IMG_8354-709605.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;I still need to find some time for today -- but I've got my drawing all ready -- it just needs some color.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lK83DvXwjB8/UVn1XORJzsI/AAAAAAAAKyQ/HwnS3urYrTI/s1600/IMG_8482-711925.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5861986169315249858" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lK83DvXwjB8/UVn1XORJzsI/AAAAAAAAKyQ/HwnS3urYrTI/s320/IMG_8482-711925.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mXHUlfZ36d4/UVn1YARC6uI/AAAAAAAAKyo/dAl9OGnQHcQ/s1600/IMG_8646-715525.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5861986182736571106" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mXHUlfZ36d4/UVn1YARC6uI/AAAAAAAAKyo/dAl9OGnQHcQ/s320/IMG_8646-715525.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Thanks for stopping by - have a wonderful&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt; day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;ps. If you haven&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;'t heard o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;f or tried the &lt;a href="http://rhonnadesigns.blogspot.com/p/21-challenge.html" target="_blank"&gt;21 Day C&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://rhonnadesigns.blogspot.com/p/21-challenge.html" target="_blank"&gt;hallenge with Rhonna Farrer&lt;/a&gt; -- you should&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;. It's a great way to make or break a habit!&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/HOfJus-l70Q/day-21-of-21-day-challenge.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XltV-z_U7wI/UVn1WKGGJVI/AAAAAAAAKx4/V_JayyysjHs/s72-c/IMG_8660-707504.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/04/day-21-of-21-day-challenge.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-880761641210610694</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-04-02T08:27:49.589-04:00</atom:updated><title>{The Monthly Word} for April</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;It took me a long time to decide on my word for April -- but here it is -- read more about my decision over on the TMW Blog -- link at the top of the left column! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4Nak3Ok1RtE/UVrN2CFLYYI/AAAAAAAAKy8/LhW61pfO1bg/s1600/TMW%2BApril-731485.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5862224193131340162" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4Nak3Ok1RtE/UVrN2CFLYYI/AAAAAAAAKy8/LhW61pfO1bg/s320/TMW%2BApril-731485.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Thanks for stopping by. I'll be back in a bit with another post. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/4C6tv-A1osg/the-monthly-word-for-april.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4Nak3Ok1RtE/UVrN2CFLYYI/AAAAAAAAKy8/LhW61pfO1bg/s72-c/TMW%2BApril-731485.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-monthly-word-for-april.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-8679152794842275206</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-04-01T09:23:25.192-04:00</atom:updated><title>Proud New Member </title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I0SLcdXiNKk/UVl_jJu1IkI/AAAAAAAAKxE/juFzbbzkaeI/s1600/sizzix2013dtbanner_200-752118.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;I've been keeping a secret from you.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;I know.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Not good.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Secrets aren't good. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Unless it's so exciting and over the moon that you just have to keep it under wraps!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;It's been a tough one to keep from you that's for sure -- I may have spilled the beans to a good friend or two -- but they kept the secret too! Starting today you'll notice I have a new badge over on the right that I'm pretty proud and happy to be sporting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7cQWz7CM5ZU/UVl_jguhYqI/AAAAAAAAKxQ/11m886EXynU/s1600/DSC07726a-754142.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5861856638056620706" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7cQWz7CM5ZU/UVl_jguhYqI/AAAAAAAAKxQ/11m886EXynU/s400/DSC07726a-754142.jpg" width="391" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;You may remember back in the fall when I shared this fun tutorial that my sweet friend Tammy Tutterow asked me to create for the Sizzix Blog?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;I think they must have liked it, because they've asked me back FOR ANOTHER YEAR! I'm very honored to announce that I'm now a part of the:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I0SLcdXiNKk/UVl_jJu1IkI/AAAAAAAAKxE/juFzbbzkaeI/s1600/sizzix2013dtbanner_200-752118.png"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="320" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5861856631883899458" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I0SLcdXiNKk/UVl_jJu1IkI/AAAAAAAAKxE/juFzbbzkaeI/s400/sizzix2013dtbanner_200-752118.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Thank you Tammy and congrats to all the others -- both new AND old that were selected for the team! We'll be sharing lots of beautiful and creative projects with you starting this month -- so stay tuned!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Thanks for stopping by and have a LOVELY day! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/gc9Yhg4ySOE/proud-new-member.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7cQWz7CM5ZU/UVl_jguhYqI/AAAAAAAAKxQ/11m886EXynU/s72-c/DSC07726a-754142.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>13</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/04/proud-new-member.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-5191590085310815634</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-03-31T07:00:03.387-04:00</atom:updated><title>The Monthly Word -- March</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;It's that time of the month -- the one where &lt;a href="http://themermaidscloset.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Martha&lt;/a&gt; from the Mermaid's Closet and I share our pages and journaling on The Monthly Word....Here's a sneakie peakie of my page -- click on over to the TMW Blog and read about how my word helped me this month!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/5ShXuASDar4/the-monthly-word-march_31.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3x5lzqd24ZI/UVdf1BS1RsI/AAAAAAAAKwY/R6QKSZEJW5I/s72-c/IMG_8528-759827.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-monthly-word-march_31.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-6737726950595593750</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-03-29T13:49:46.896-04:00</atom:updated><title>Happy Easter!</title><description>Today is Good Friday -- it's hard for me to believe that Easter is on Sunday. Phew, it's pretty early this year. &lt;br /&gt;
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So, I've a MILLION things to be doing -- but I'm home working through computer issues and technical delays - hopefully I'll be back next week with some new art to share -- and in the mean time-- I thought I would wish you all a Happy Easter weekend!&lt;br /&gt;
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THANKS for stopping by!</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/-N-VB8OeB9c/happy-easter.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hDnGwTeyuL8/UVXTiGcbafI/AAAAAAAAKvs/p7A5nATz7sk/s72-c/IMG_8491.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/03/happy-easter.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-3110471691648751863</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-03-27T09:12:18.103-04:00</atom:updated><title>My love for a Dip Pen</title><description>&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;I haven't been using my Dip pen much lately really. I think mostly because I hadn't been making the time to journal daily. I am so happy that today is Day 13 (I think) of my &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;21 Day Challenge with Rhonna Farrer. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yEfIAZXlxvw/UVLtGEHGWaI/AAAAAAAAKvA/RGmx4Qmc8Eo/s1600/IMG_8497-744274.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5860006753600952738" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yEfIAZXlxvw/UVLtGEHGWaI/AAAAAAAAKvA/RGmx4Qmc8Eo/s320/IMG_8497-744274.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;When it comes out looking like this, I am reminded that I should use it more often.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yLogsqKWJW0/UVLtG-LS0GI/AAAAAAAAKvM/fuBguE8KthQ/s1600/IMG_8498-746798.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5860006769187803234" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yLogsqKWJW0/UVLtG-LS0GI/AAAAAAAAKvM/fuBguE8KthQ/s320/IMG_8498-746798.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;And especially on tough work days. Like yesterday. It is strangely relaxing and satisfying to create a pretty page i&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;n the midst of &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;all that angst &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;from y&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;esterday.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;I'm headed i&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;n to do &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;more battle with my computer &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;today -- so I'm going to re&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;member to follow my heart and ta&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;ke a break to art journa&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;l later when I get frustrated.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/Vevyzn9kKeg/my-love-for-dip-pen.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yEfIAZXlxvw/UVLtGEHGWaI/AAAAAAAAKvA/RGmx4Qmc8Eo/s72-c/IMG_8497-744274.jpeg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/03/my-love-for-dip-pen.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-7034163145385930505</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-03-26T09:41:41.252-04:00</atom:updated><title>it's not the journey</title><description>&lt;div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Sharing the process for another journal page with you. First, I start out with a pencil sketch. And actually, this one was inspired by a picture in Good Housekeeping magazine that I spied on Sunday.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;I came home and uploaded it from my phone to my 'puter and proceeded to sketch it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;It was the sketching part that made me think of my journey, how I'm inspired and how I turn that inspiration into reality. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Which then inspired my brain to work with words to come up with this quote. I then get my permanent ink pen out and commit the pencil lines and then start laying in the color. I mentioned yesterday that I am in love with Tim Holtz Distress Paints -- and that is what I used -- exclusively for this page today.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;When the color part is done I get my dip pen and calligraphy ink out and ink in the text.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;And then I photograph it to share it here or on Instagr&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;am and start on the ne&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;xt page.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/y9CNMjuxE7o/its-not-journey.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3xWRQeXEM2g/UVGjGYAFzuI/AAAAAAAAKus/99J19W0SCE0/s72-c/IMG_8474.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/03/its-not-journey.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-6392222359176925360</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-03-25T06:00:12.371-04:00</atom:updated><title>Art Journaling - Keeping it Private</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I mentioned last week that I've been following along with&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; Rhonna Farrer's 21 Day Challenge. &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Yesterday (Sunday) was day 10 and I must say &lt;strike&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;finding &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;making the time to journal every day before I do anything else has been wonderful. I've been busy -- &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;and stressed and making &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;pretty art has been a great way to start my day&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; and a&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; big bright &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;spot that I look forward to when I go to be&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;d e&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;very night!&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; The last &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;few nights I've been &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;prepping my pages before I go to bed so I have more time to paint in the morning! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I thought I &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;would share my &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;process&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; of &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;art journaling -- with &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;both art and words -- but words I don't necessar&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;ily want public.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r1cIp4o1WB0/UU-VoGgEDAI/AAAAAAAAKsg/XVt61q1uOew/s1600/IMG_8458-744533.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5859066156404706306" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r1cIp4o1WB0/UU-VoGgEDAI/AAAAAAAAKsg/XVt61q1uOew/s320/IMG_8458-744533.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;First I write -- in pencil and fill my page with just rambling. Sometimes I turn the page &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;this way and that to make it even more random. Then I take a permanent marker and draw on&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; top of the writing.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;When I have filled the page with both words and art I use Gesso to fill in the background and hide most of the words.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WkObErJJ6A4/UU-Vopi_mAI/AAAAAAAAKss/RencLNKu9K4/s1600/IMG_8459-746314.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5859066165812238338" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WkObErJJ6A4/UU-Vopi_mAI/AAAAAAAAKss/RencLNKu9K4/s320/IMG_8459-746314.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The art kinda starts coming to life at th&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;is&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; point and you can't really make out &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;what I&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;'m writing about -- just random words here and there&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;! &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;When the background is all filled in I start addin&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;g color.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_pMeuxdt_84/UU-VpO4fk2I/AAAAAAAAKs4/h-tBKqooNUc/s1600/IMG_8461-748282.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5859066175834526562" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_pMeuxdt_84/UU-VpO4fk2I/AAAAAAAAKs4/h-tBKqooNUc/s320/IMG_8461-748282.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I've recently &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;discovered Tim Holtz Distress paints &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;are perfect and lovely for &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;art journaling and &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;painting like watercolor paints. I&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;'m prett&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;y much smitten with the paints.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tysPo7cfTmM/UU-VpTu7dnI/AAAAAAAAKtE/THyzKuAsOSs/s1600/IMG_8462-749425.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5859066177136588402" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tysPo7cfTmM/UU-VpTu7dnI/AAAAAAAAKtE/THyzKuAsOSs/s320/IMG_8462-749425.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I think I&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;'m going to have to have them all. yes. &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;ALL.&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; Plus&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;, the colors are LOVELY.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vheRoILs3NA/UU-Vp9STaaI/AAAAAAAAKtQ/gSQsehweaMk/s1600/IMG_8475-750976.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5859066188290812322" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vheRoILs3NA/UU-Vp9STaaI/AAAAAAAAKtQ/gSQsehweaMk/s320/IMG_8475-750976.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;When I'm done with all the painting, you can't really &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;make out what I was writing about, &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;j&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;us&lt;/span&gt;t that I painted over &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;a page f&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;illed with hand&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;-written words.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;When you are done, your &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;page looks beautiful, you worked out your feel&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;ings for the day AND you made some pretty art.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5nWOnlVWyXA/UU-VqHEZcvI/AAAAAAAAKtc/flMSbUkP4Nk/s1600/IMG_8478-752687.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5859066190916842226" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5nWOnlVWyXA/UU-VqHEZcvI/AAAAAAAAKtc/flMSbUkP4Nk/s320/IMG_8478-752687.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;What more could a gal ask for anyw&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;ay?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Thanks for stopping by, hope you had a GREAT we&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;ekend! &lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;PS. What's your favorite Distress Paint color&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/6gPdmaIhnTU/art-journaling-keeping-it-private.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r1cIp4o1WB0/UU-VoGgEDAI/AAAAAAAAKsg/XVt61q1uOew/s72-c/IMG_8458-744533.jpeg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/03/art-journaling-keeping-it-private.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-4760088591429558351</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-03-22T06:00:06.195-04:00</atom:updated><title>Crazy Weather</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;The weather this winter and spring has been crazy, to say the least. We went from this....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jFCDhPCtK38/UUu_RMB-1_I/AAAAAAAAKro/aJWqS72Mme4/s1600/IMG_8285-759680.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jFCDhPCtK38/UUu_RMB-1_I/AAAAAAAAKro/aJWqS72Mme4/s320/IMG_8285-759680.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to this....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0hg24AfJGNQ/UUu_RWaJcbI/AAAAAAAAKr0/AZiT9fNv1-Q/s1600/IMG_8329-761755.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0hg24AfJGNQ/UUu_RWaJcbI/AAAAAAAAKr0/AZiT9fNv1-Q/s320/IMG_8329-761755.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  to this.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cUeuO6b9RBs/UUu_RziuJoI/AAAAAAAAKsA/_sY3jgUH96M/s1600/IMG_8338-762877.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cUeuO6b9RBs/UUu_RziuJoI/AAAAAAAAKsA/_sY3jgUH96M/s320/IMG_8338-762877.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; to this.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JbXismXwASY/UUu_SBxPLTI/AAAAAAAAKsM/4x9XJLIDfGs/s1600/IMG_8399-764136.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JbXismXwASY/UUu_SBxPLTI/AAAAAAAAKsM/4x9XJLIDfGs/s320/IMG_8399-764136.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; in 2 weeks..... or maybe it was 1 week -- I don't remember but it's been crazy and I'm ready for spring...even though it is beautiful! But, that's life in Maine - unpredictable! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;thanks all for stopping by, enjoy your weekend!  &lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ABfd/~3/R5tjH-p4x5U/crazy-weather.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Matthews-Scanlon)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jFCDhPCtK38/UUu_RMB-1_I/AAAAAAAAKro/aJWqS72Mme4/s72-c/IMG_8285-759680.jpeg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2013/03/crazy-weather.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447611947400392192.post-5423535792376100853</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-03-21T12:23:13.820-04:00</atom:updated><title>21 Day Challenge </title><description>&lt;div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;My friend &lt;a href="http://themermaidscloset.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Martha&lt;/a&gt; started the latest version of the 21 Day Challenge with &lt;a href="http://rhonnadesigns.blogspot.com/p/21-challenge.html" target="_blank"&gt;Rhonna Farrer &lt;/a&gt;-- I was so stressed that I haven't been giving myself any "me art time" that I decided to join in too. I've been so busy over the last few months that journaling for me just kinda went out the window. I love combining art and words. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;I found myself stressed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Blocked.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Uninspired.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;and angry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;super angry.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Like really I'm quitting everything I do angry. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ekTk0_WGcwQ/UUsx1WxitwI/AAAAAAAAKqM/l-8R0UBALAM/s1600/IMG_8342-753199.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5857830533041665794" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ekTk0_WGcwQ/UUsx1WxitwI/AAAAAAAAKqM/l-8R0UBALAM/s320/IMG_8342-753199.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;So -- this challenge came at the right time.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iNk_eQbeHYE/UUsx19gPf3I/AAAAAAAAKqY/oqYZQc5PX9s/s1600/IMG_8348-755403.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5857830543438086002" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iNk_eQbeHYE/UUsx19gPf3I/AAAAAAAAKqY/oqYZQc5PX9s/s320/IMG_8348-755403.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;I want to re-set my priorities.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;So that I come first and my family too.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WS3yVHyk7w4/UUsx2pxjN3I/AAAAAAAAKqk/PRr_YNnwY1Q/s1600/IMG_8353-758643.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5857830555321841522" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WS3yVHyk7w4/UUsx2pxjN3I/AAAAAAAAKqk/PRr_YNnwY1Q/s320/IMG_8353-758643.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;And then rather than feel guilty about creating art for me, embrace it and work with it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-837jtSUqnYY/UUsx3KjjuuI/AAAAAAAAKqw/3ate5FxRp5w/s1600/IMG_8365-760649.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5857830564121524962" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-837jtSUqnYY/UUsx3KjjuuI/AAAAAAAAKqw/3ate5FxRp5w/s320/IMG_8365-760649.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;I want to enjoy my art, my life, my family.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;I definitely NEED to find time to be healthy.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EX_0hzyUbfA/UUsx3rTWwRI/AAAAAAAAKq8/MbodF48Uv0A/s1600/IMG_8375-762706.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5857830572911935762" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EX_0hzyUbfA/UUsx3rTWwRI/AAAAAAAAKq8/MbodF48Uv0A/s320/IMG_8375-762706.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;I want to experiment with color and design and make time for my family. Wait, I think I mentioned that 3 times already. Yes -- it's that important to me -- they go "do" things so I can stay home and work. hmmm, not fun. missing out. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZkU9G5Qvlxo/UUsx4JrEunI/AAAAAAAAKrI/eZaxrM3kJ4k/s1600/IMG_8400-764566.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5857830581064481394" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZkU9G5Qvlxo/UUsx4JrEunI/AAAAAAAAKrI/eZaxrM3kJ4k/s320/IMG_8400-764566.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;And I don't want to be angry all the time. and stressed about getting work done when I don't feel appreciated.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;I would say that's a successful 7 day start, art and words really help me. It needs to be a habit. I want it to be a habit, and I've got 7 days under my belt, woohoo for me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I1xPp88SgKI/UUsx4t5c6cI/AAAAAAAAKrU/IcKCLHQtjJ0/s1600/IMG_8409-766469.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5857830590788463042" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I1xPp88SgKI/UUsx4t5c6cI/AAAAAAAAKrU/IcKCLHQtjJ0/s320/IMG_8409-766469.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;A big thanks to Martha Richardson for inspiring me even though she didn't &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;know &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;she was &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;and to Rhonna for doing the challenge&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; all these years&lt;/span&gt;! With that said, it's back to work for me.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Thanks for stopping by have a great day!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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