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This is my newest interest...exploding gift boxes. It's a gift box, which when the top is taken off, the sides fall open, and inside are picture, memorabilia, pockets with goodies, or just decorative things. I'll have to think of a better name for the boxes I create, I hate the name 'exploding gift box'. Some people call them card boxes or magic boxes, my name is going to be cooler than that. :cool:

This is my first attempt, so it's nothing spectacular. I made it for my granddaughter who likes flowers and favorite color is blue.


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Since buying my condo, I have accumulated a large number of paint swatches, in an effort to decide what colors to paint the walls. I decided to recycle them by cutting the colored portions into shapes and making mosaics/collages with some store-bought canvases and glue/decoupage medium. Not only does it put the swatches to good use, but it also guarantees that the resulting artwork will coordinate with whatever colors I decide to put on the walls.
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This is my newest interest...exploding gift boxes. It's a gift box, which when the top is taken off, the sides fall open, and inside are picture, memorabilia, pockets with goodies, or just decorative things. I'll have to think of a better name for the boxes I create, I hate the name 'exploding gift box'. Some people call them card boxes or magic boxes, my name is going to be cooler than that. :cool:

This is my first attempt, so it's nothing spectacular. I made it for my granddaughter who likes flowers and favorite color is blue.


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Time
I absolve myself from your vow to vanquish me
Fire
I’m ablaze with the darkness of my destiny
Song
You’re a ghost who thinks she’s tapped into mortality
But it’s gone – it is lost
And Life
You’re the lie that the guilt of sin has banished from eternity
Broken lock and key
Bound
In the circle of the cross in which I summon thee
With this Earth
Blood and ashes draw the lines that call you forth to me
Light
I implore you to shine down on these mysteries
Before they’re smoke – and they’re gone
We are lost
In passageways, blindly searching on our hands and knees
And to these doors there is no lock and key

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It's tricky to write a rhyme:

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
Where's Waldo?
Where's the voice of Geico?
No, not the gecko
But the one they let go?
Tell me have you seen him, like Eminem
Kim Kardashian
Selfies on Instagram
Snoop Dogg smoking weed, like Amsterdam
Or Washington
D.C., Colorado Avalanche
It's medicinal, clinical
Spiritual, like an oracle
The earth is spherical
My rhymes are lyrical
Team USA, 1980, that's a miracle

That's all I've got so far.

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The first verse (Auto Insurance is the working title):

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
Where's Waldo?
Where's the voice of Geico?
No, not the gecko
But the one they let go?
Tell me have you seen him, like Eminem
Kim Kardashian
Selfies on Instagram
Snoop Dogg smoking weed, like Amsterdam
Or Washington
D.C., Colorado Avalanche
Medicinal, clinical
Spiritual, like an oracle
The earth is spherical
My rhymes are lyrical
Team USA, 1980, that's a miracle
But really though
have you seen her though
Have you seen Flo
The girl from the video
Progressive
Her name like this rhyme that's so impressive
Commercials all the time, they're so excessive
GOP Congress, so regressive
Men's rights activists, so possessive
Repressive, unimpressive
Smash the system, I say hell yes
Success, now that's the best
 
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So I've started a blog. Writerances.wordpress.com. It's brand new, one post, so be nice.

It's not strictly going to be a veg blog, I'm going for a bit of ecofeminism here. Each day will have a different theme, and I'm aiming for a post a day. We'll see what it evolves into.

My plan:
Monday - meatless mondays
Tuesdays - home and garden
Wednesdays - ???
Thursdays - Throwback Thusdays (where I will do a little bio of inspiring people who don't make the history books. Putting that history degree to use, yo)
Fridays - Feminism fridays
 
So I've started a blog. Writerances.wordpress.com. It's brand new, one post, so be nice.

It's not strictly going to be a veg blog, I'm going for a bit of ecofeminism here. Each day will have a different theme, and I'm aiming for a post a day. We'll see what it evolves into.

My plan:
Monday - meatless mondays
Tuesdays - home and garden
Wednesdays - ???
Thursdays - Throwback Thusdays (where I will do a little bio of inspiring people who don't make the history books. Putting that history degree to use, yo)
Fridays - Feminism fridays

World Wednesdays (environmentalism) !!
 
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