How to Cut Paper Snowflakes

January 19, 2012
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I realize that many of you are up to your necks in real snowflakes at the moment, but here in the SF Bay area it has been bone dry all winter. I’m not trying to say that we would normally be strapping on our snow shoes at this time of year or anything but we’ve [...]

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Project 365 2012: Week 2

January 17, 2012
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Does it feel like it’s been all scrapbooking all the time around here? It feels that way to me — just a little bit — but I’ve been on a roll keeping up with my projects, so I’m just going to go with it!
I’ve finished up the second week of my 2012 project 365 album, [...]

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40th Year Project: Part 5

January 16, 2012

Time for the January update on my 40th year project. Woo hoo!
This month I started digging into the box of super-special-save-forever treasures that I packed up and sent to California when I helped my parents move out of my childhood home several years ago. Though my parents had made changes to my room in the [...]

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The Week in Bentos: January 9-13, 2012

January 13, 2012

This was a bad week for packing lunches, my friends. We overslept almost every single morning this week and when that happens, I go into panic mode trying to get the kids to school on time. The first thing that gets booted from my to do list on these mornings is packing a lunch for [...]

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A New Project 365 (+1) for 2012

January 9, 2012

Hooray 2012! Hooray Project 365! I’m going back to taking a photo a day this year and I couldn’t be more excited about it.
I’ve done two 365 projects previously — one in 2009 and another in 2010 — and I blogged the photos once a week. Taking a photo a day can get pretty intense [...]

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The Week in Bentos: January 3-6, 2012

January 6, 2012

All righty then! We are back to school and trying our best to get into a routine again after the lazy days of winter vacation. This has not been an easy task because we were all in the habit of staying up too late, sleeping in and taking our sweet time getting out of the [...]

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