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The one hundred and one year old brick pushes back against the soles of my feet, full of memory. They form a discrete monument, encased in concrete meant to preserve and protect. The history of the city moves around me, swollen with whisper and promise.Where I Stand Sunday is an ongoing photo essay examining the different places I spend my life standing. Too often we take for granted the everyday

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Hello, my name is Lynn and I am a deadbeat blogger.Seriously, a whole week since the last post? Sheesh....Time seems to just run away from me lately. Especially when I'm pulling OT at work. This weekend is busy as well as Cathy is in town and we are spending today and tomorrow just being stupid. (Gotta do that sometimes, its good for the soul to laugh until you feel like you are going to pee.)

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A small bend, a detour away from the long line of duty and routine creates an abrupt introduction. The sudden break makes me pause, causes me to search my mind for a similar distraction. Could transition from one to another be so simple? Is it possible to break through to a new world so easily?Where I Stand Sunday is an ongoing photo essay examining the different places I spend my life standing.

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Many things happened today: (1) I had the day off work (which means I don't feel like my life force has been sucked out), (2) I went to the cross stitch store and came back with another pattern (believe me, you should be proud, it was like a cross stitch mecca at that store) - which lead to the next thing - (3) guilt kicked in that I have so many unfinished projects.Plus there is another medium

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Like all of us out here in blog land, I have my favorite blogs that I constantly check in with. One of those is Kathy Nida's.She is an extraordinary artist and she has given me a new found respect for how hard teachers have to work. (Seriously, if you know a teacher, give them a huge hug, they totally deserve it.)But I have a bone to pick with her and I'm gonna do it right here in public. Oh yes,

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Today is my first day back at work from a week long company shutdown. Its quite possibly the cruelest thing, really. Have nine days of in a row (that's counting weekends) and just when I'm starting to unwind and feel human again, shove me right back into the blessed eleven hour days that earn me my paycheck. (I'm still holding out hope that I will win the lotto. Of course, trying to win it with

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Turtle TracksATC mounted on 6"x6" mat boardMaterials: ATC with turtle image from hand carved stamp, hand made paper, fabric, beadsWow, its already July! Seems like this year is just flying by in a flurry of activity! As its the 5th of the month, its time to put up a new Good News Giveaway and announce June's winner.The Random Number Generator pulled #10 which makes Judi the winner. Here is the

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The heavy wooden doors anchor every entrance of the historic building, acting as sentries that both greet and defend. I press my hand against the wood, trying to reinvent the minutes and hours and years that came before me. My mind swells at everything it has seen, an envy burns deep inside to know all that it knows. Its memory hangs in the air around it, its presence etched into the earth it

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The complexity of life has begun to wear (I know I'm not alone on this one, raise your hand if you are in the same boat? Whoa...see? There's a lot of us...) and I find myself looking for more and more of the little things to revel in.One of those are the playdates I have with Mary where we just go out and bum around and look at things fibery (what I refer to as wool therapy since that is usually

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Sorry guys, this was supposed to be posted yesterday, wasn't it? I told you I was having an attack of the lazies. Actually, this was a case of forgetfulness. (If I'm not at work and constantly date stamping things a hundred times in an eight hour period I tend to forget what day it is.)Anyway, I trucked on over to the Random Number Generator and asked it to tell me who the winner of this magazine

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Part of my attack of the lazies includes spending a lot of time on my laptop. (Well, a lot of that has to do too with the fact that when I'm trapped on the sofa trying to convince my back to be nice to me, I can put the computer on my tummy and surf the net until I go cross eyed. All hail laptops.)I decided to surf ravelry for a bit since I've not been on there for a while and I found this:That

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You know, I had a grand list of all the things that I was going to get done while on break. They were big sweeping things that I've been trying to find the time to do and it thrilled me to no end that I was going to have a chance to take care of them.Eh.Motivation has left the building.I don't know what my problem is but mostly I just want to nap and watch movies. It doesn't help that my back is

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I'm a huge fan of Jeanne Williamson's work. I'm especially fascinated with her Orange Construction Fence series. Its been so interesting to follow it as she's worked on it over the years.And now she's doing something that I'm very intrigued by.A little while back she decided to set up two of her pieces outside. Just to see what would happen to them when they were left exposed to the elements over

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The 2008 Breaking Traditions Art Quilt Exhibit is currently on exhibit at the 212 Arts Center in Saline, Michigan for the month of July.From 212's website: The mission of Two Twelve Arts Center is to provide a creative hub offering visual and performing artists the opportunity and working space to come together to work, create, and teach. The Center also contributes to the cultural life of the

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Yesterday was hanging day at the 212 Arts Center for the 2008 Breaking Traditions Art Quilt Exhibit. Its traveling around to a few places before it finally goes home to the artists and July will be spent hanging in the lovely 212.Lots of art to hang.I love that place, its a converted old house. I'm a huge fan of old fashioned houses, anything arts and crafts style makes me stupid happy. So it was

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You still have today and tomorrow to leave a comment on this post to get in the running for June's Good News Giveaway (shown above).Be sure to leave the comment on that post, not this one.Time's a-wastin' so get commenting!

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It is impossible to say how many have stood here before me. The house sighs with age, content and full. Many moons have hung above it, many decades have passed across this very porch. Cross its threshold and its new purpose housing artwork washes across your face like breath. It welcomes you, draws you in, beckons you to come and sit for a spell.Where I Stand Sunday is an ongoing photo essay

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I know this because I was told so today.Twice. By two different people.I've said it before but it bears repeating - I loathe clothes shopping. I especially find it torturous during the summer time. Mostly because I'm more of an earth tone kind of color palette person and I'm allergic to sequins and glitter on my clothing. (Many people look very nice in this, I do not. In any way. It makes me

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I am in a somewhat blissful state of mind this fine evening. Why you ask? I was hoping you would, let me tell you:1) I am officially on vacation for the next nine days. The company I work for forces a shutdown the first week of July. Although there is a certain irony to this (as Cathy likes to say, I'm so pale I'm practically clear which means me taking time off work during one of the sunniest

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Happy Bloggiversary!Wow, I've had this blog for three years now. Posting was a bit dodgy at the beginning but once I hit my stride, I just haven't been able to shut up.Out of curiosity I went back to see what my first blog post was about. I was drinking some water and when I realized what it was, I spent the next ten minutes cleaning the spit off my laptop. (Drinking and spontaneous laughter

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I spent the majority of yesterday organizing entries for one of the exhibits I'm curating, Blurred Boundaries. (Still time to enter if you were thinking about it, the deadline has been extended to June 28). I love it, I consider it fun, not work. If I could find a job curating exhibits full time, I'd be all over it.The exhibit will run in conjunction with the Fabrications Retreat (which is

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The color burns bright and furious, complimented by the heat pooling off the blacktop behind me. Amid the explosion of green leaves, it is a contradiction that burns bright. It reaches out to me every time I pass it, groping for a connection, seeking a way to be remembered. I run my hand across its whisper leaves, relishing its peace, its strength.Where I Stand Sunday is an ongoing photo essay

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I'm still working on Babette #1. I'm actually making some progress. If I'm lucky, I'll get one whole side sewn together tonight and then just be left with the treacherous traitor known as the left side of the blanket. (I swear, if this thing had any mercy on me, it would sew itself together.)I got a couple questions about this thing. One was an email asking why I'm working on it if its making me

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Okay, I admit it. The blog posts about the blanket that refuses to be finished and the antics of Dooley are bound to wear thin soon (if they haven't already. If they have and you've remained silent then I thank you for your tact.)So since I am dreadfully lacking in anything thrilling at the moment, I wanted to tell you about a friend of mine who has tons of thrilling going on all of the time.I

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I've been having insomnia issues lately and have been staying up later then usual. It annoys little man in a huge way, mostly because the living room is, for all intensive purposes, his bedroom. So if I stay up late, so does he.And he's already had a somewhat trying evening.There has been much pacing and trotting and jumping against cabinets. And singing. Oh my, the singing.I had no idea his

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