Grandma’s Sampler

      I spotted the  cross stitch in the basement of an antique store.  It depicted two Victorian ladies having tea, with a verse on friendship, with a price-tag of  just $10.00  The frame was coming apart, but since  I  also frame pictures , I brought it home, intending to nurse my find back to health.  Discovered that it was a picture and not an actual cross [...]

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Dark-horse/ dark-hors

    We went  out for pizza  last night with Paul and Hannah, during the course of our conversation I compared myself  spiritually to a horse running on the open range vs. a domesticated horse  stuck in a stall.    The word picture in my mind came straight from a little book I’d read 20 years ago  called [...]

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Which Famous People Do YOU Most Look Like?

      I stopped by one of my fellow blogging buddies today Shalene   She has this fun activity posted which you can do for yourself.  You upload a picture  and  the program does the rest….it will compare your photo w/ different celebrities …You can see my results below.  
     On more than one occcassion  I’ve been told  (personality [...]

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Why I Write

     A paper trail.  I’m leaving a paper trail for my children.  Chances are  most of what I write won’t be read by them until I’m gone, which is fine.  I came across a fun activity from Debi.  Debi got the idea from Writer Chic   Take the letters of the alphabet and associate each one [...]

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Tuition At The School Of Hard Knocks

   For days, the price  hovered  around $300.00.  I had stumbled across a watercolor picture on e-bay  painted by ”Wood” dated 1928.  How many artists by the name of “Wood” could paint something that realistic  in 1928?  It must be a Grant Wood original!  So I placed a bid.
     Flash forward to the last minute of the auction……
      45 Seconds…$1600/  40 seconds [...]

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