6/17/13

Still out there blogging

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Please visit my new endeavors, Honeysuckle Sphinx Moth Design , To Know a Place: Oak Point Nature Preserve , and CollageMama's Hearty Br...
2/26/13

Detouring.

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Pardon our dust.  This Itty Bitty Blog is heading to sunny side up climes.  Every decade or so it's time to hit the trail.  Thank you f...
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2/25/13

Twenty miles of gravel and a six pack of Hostess donuts

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© 2013 Nancy L. Ruder
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2/21/13

Mental health with feathers

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Woodpecker Hope is the thing with feathers,  according to Emily Dickinson .  A good walk with birds is the thing for my mental outlook...
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2/17/13

Rose-scented handkerchief

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Started this month searching for a rose-themed Valentine's Day art project for my young students. Inspiration arrived with the Inter...
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2/15/13

We interrupt our program of dance music

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No, this is not coming to you from the Meridian Room of the Park Plaza Hotel in New York City. It's just an itty bitty pulp week here i...
2/10/13

You must change your purse.

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Rilke did not say that . Mom said, "Don't spend all your money on a purse, as you will have nothing to carry in it." Mom also ...
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2/9/13

Survivor--100 Days of School

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Happy, happy one hundredth day of school!  We made it! May I not see ten groups of ten Cocoa Puffs for another year.  I am so very counte...
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2/7/13

A heart-shaped Slinky, a jug of wine and thou

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My mission: To create a tiny poem based on the structure in Cynthia Rylant's book, If You'll Be My Valentine . The poem  will be a...
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2/6/13

Obituary for the iron

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Fans of the Monopoly iron wept in their beers tonight after Hasbro announced that game piece was voted off the board. There were no rep...

Stockholm Octavo

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Picked up roses for today's art class at Albertson's. This one is an intriguing smoky salmon red. The children won't like it,...
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2/4/13

Red roses for a blue lady

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 Art class plan for next two Wednesdays Theme  roses  rhyming noses Valentine-zy without being Valentine's Valentine-ish withou...
2/3/13

So far behind I cain't get caught up

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Shuffle/  Don't even know where to start, so I'll just swagger into this saloon and sit myself in the corner with my  back up to...
1/27/13

Bringing the car around

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1954 Chevy Bel-Air I want to thank the owner of this antique 1954 Chevy for having brunch at Corner Bakery. What a gorgeous sight in shi...
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Childhoods of Mediocre Americans

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A girl and  her needle-nose pliers : a biography for young readers / by CollageMama. This week I unjammed my document shredder with those ...
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