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Peacock Blue Dress

A SMITH OF ALL TRADES   4 HOURS AGO
My sister and I make a dangerous pair when we go shopping together — we are both pros. We went out on Saturday to go ...

The Great Outdoors (Our Yard), Part VII: Raised Garde...

DO-IT-YOURSELF DANIELLE   7 HOURS AGO
These are the wonderful raised garden beds that Daddy B and my brother got me for Mother's Day. They went to the store and ...

Take a Word: Sewing

A LITTLE COLOR EVERY DAY   2:07 PM ON SUN MAY 19 2013
I'm usually stumped when a challenge theme is related to sewing. Sewing is not one of my talents, sorry to say. But I found...

Water Beads

DO-IT-YOURSELF DANIELLE   7:35 PM ON SAT MAY 18 2013
      Some of my friends have been getting water beads for their toddlers to play with as a sensory activity...

Sunday Postcard Art: Buttons and Bows

A LITTLE COLOR EVERY DAY   7:14 PM ON SAT MAY 18 2013
Image credits: SJD, Miss Mint, Dover, Cheeky Monkey....

Solar, by Ian McEwan

THE RED MARGINS   4:12 PM ON SAT MAY 18 2013
  Solar is the type of novel I love: the extended tale of a smart fool, an egotistical clown who scrabbles t...

Bald Eagle Fly Over

UPLOADS FROM OZONI11   1:56 PM ON SAT MAY 18 2013
ozoni11 posted a photo: At the nest in Howard County, Maryland...

Feeding Junior

UPLOADS FROM OZONI11   10:01 PM ON FRI MAY 17 2013
ozoni11 posted a photo: I'm lucky that there is a Bald Eagle nest 10 minutes from where I live. It is on Maryland stat...

Take Out Taxi...Fresh Sushi Brought To The Nest

UPLOADS FROM OZONI11   10:01 PM ON FRI MAY 17 2013
ozoni11 posted a photo: I'm lucky that there is a Bald Eagle nest 10 minutes from where I live. It is on Maryland stat...

Hammock time

A SMITH OF ALL TRADES   4:27 PM ON FRI MAY 17 2013
Ending my work week with some time in our hammock. Perfection. ...

This Shoemaker Needed an Elf

PLAYS WITH NEEDLES   11:30 AM ON FRI MAY 17 2013
The Grimm fairy tale begins with a poor shoemaker who has given away his only pair of shoes to a woman needier than him. &n...

Portrait Poetry Friday: Starting with What's Real

AUTHOR AMOK   12:00 AM ON FRI MAY 17 2013
One of my favorite workshops for elementary and middle schoolers is on portrait poems. (You can read a "poem walk" though t...

My First Baltimore Oriole of the Season

UPLOADS FROM OZONI11   6:28 PM ON THU MAY 16 2013
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Orange + Green = Delight

UPLOADS FROM OZONI11   6:28 PM ON THU MAY 16 2013
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Baltimore Oriole Steals Second

UPLOADS FROM OZONI11   6:28 PM ON THU MAY 16 2013
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Osprey After Dive

UPLOADS FROM OZONI11   6:28 PM ON THU MAY 16 2013
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Sad Things Are Good: More Opposites from Third Grade

AUTHOR AMOK   7:23 AM ON THU MAY 16 2013
Available at Amazon. One of my favorite books of opposite poems is by the poet Richard Wilbur. The story is that opposit...

Changing My Car Key Battery

DO-IT-YOURSELF DANIELLE   7:00 AM ON THU MAY 16 2013
I have a 2008 Toyota Prius and my batteries died on both of my key chains so I decided to finally replace the batteries. I ...

iris blooms

FELIS PUSHKINI   7:40 PM ON WED MAY 15 2013
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Turtle Mosaic

A SMITH OF ALL TRADES   7:29 PM ON WED MAY 15 2013
I was asked to help create a turtle mosaic at work for an upcoming giveaway at a conference. So one of our students and I s...

Big and Small, Happy, Sad, Opposite Poems to Make You...

AUTHOR AMOK   7:59 AM ON WED MAY 15 2013
Sun or snow? Yes! Not no. Fast or slow? Stop. Then, go! The Northfield third graders have been working on opposite poems. ...

Grackle + Worm =

UPLOADS FROM OZONI11   7:21 PM ON TUE MAY 14 2013
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Entry # 149 - "Making A Life While Writing About...

JAN BOWMAN WRITER   3:45 PM ON TUE MAY 14 2013
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Multigenerational Music: Jesse Paris Smith and Patti ...

LITTLE PATUXENT REVIEW   12:03 PM ON TUE MAY 14 2013
Jesse Paris Smith and Patti Smith at The Noguchi Museum (Photo: Patrick McMullan Company, 2012) The subject of intergenerat...

Mother’s Day

A SMITH OF ALL TRADES   10:49 AM ON TUE MAY 14 2013
I am one of the most fortunate people on the planet because I have not one, not two, but three wonderful mothers that I get...

The Event of the Season: Patricia Smith & Sage St...

HOCOPOLITSO   9:05 AM ON TUE MAY 14 2013
The Sound and Fury of New Orleans Thursday, June 27, 7:30 p.m. Monteabaro Recital Hall, The Horowitz Center at Howard Com...

Lenscrafting

PLAYS WITH NEEDLES   9:01 AM ON TUE MAY 14 2013
Sometimes it's the simplest tasks that throw us for a loop.Like twisting two wires evenly...I tried following the advice fr...

The Importance of the Diaper Elastic (and how to fix ...

DO-IT-YOURSELF DANIELLE   7:00 AM ON TUE MAY 14 2013
This is a good fit on a cloth diaper, around the legs.I made a grievous error while sewing some cloth diapers a while back ...

Osprey With Fish

UPLOADS FROM OZONI11   8:16 PM ON MON MAY 13 2013
ozoni11 posted a photo: Above the West River in Shady Side, Maryland...

Three Muses: Quote (open theme)

A LITTLE COLOR EVERY DAY   8:03 PM ON MON MAY 13 2013
please click for larger viewThe drawings are mine; gold texture on lion is from allfreedownload.com....
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