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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09845655119160315582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281241360608425653.post-24084391726313003582014-07-27T09:00:00.000-04:002014-07-27T10:18:29.048-04:00Rain Rain Go Away...<div>
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It is good for the plants, at least that is what we've been saying a lot. Given that I haven't actually planted any plants this year, I suppose it would be more apropos to say it is good for the weeds. Did I ever tell you my Mom and I play a game I call "Weed or Not?" I take an phone photo of green things growing in the garden, and she texts me whether or not it is a weed. They almost always are. Sigh.</div>
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We discovered an alley that bordered a series of restaurants on Market Square in Knoxville fully decorated with wonderful graffiti. I brought my camera on the journey, but left it in the car (it was particularly hot, the camera felt particularly heavy, and I was particularly lazy). Fortunately, I'm never without my phone-- I love that this random discovery wasn't left purely to memory. Isn't the modern age great?</div>
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We've been using these <a href="http://scoutmob.com/p/wood-foodie-dice-tumbler-set">foodie dice</a> to plan menus now that farmer's market is open. I like the randomness of it. We're also going to try our hand at canning some spaghetti sauces and pestos to put up for the winter. Jeremy's pesto sauce is the best thing about summer, hands down. </div>
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The kids are all busy and bustling this summer. Harper has a job, and is spending every non working moment exploring the mountains with friends. Tucker has football practice, and camp coming up, and a new girlfriend who is sweet as can be. Bayley just moved a little further down the road--I think I'll have a housewarming party post coming up here when I get around to it. Jeremy has had a summer class, and of course is working at the library. Its a quiet summer for me. I like it. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09845655119160315582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281241360608425653.post-490010083770840032014-07-06T08:00:00.000-04:002014-07-06T19:38:03.137-04:00Small Town Fourth of July<div>
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I've lived in big cities, suburbs, unincorporated communities, and everything in between. But this little, small town is my home. You can't beat a small town parade-- less spectacle, more neighborly, if that makes sense. Plus, tractors! Tractors are cool. </div>
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After the parade we grabbed lunch at the General Store and left with chocolate milkshakes that we sipped while we strolled through the craft fair. The weather was lovely-- clear blue and not too hot. The little main street was more crowded than I'd ever seen it; the perfect opportunity to people watch.</div>
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We finished it off with a wedding anniversary dinner. Funny story. At first we were planning on having a traditional night-at-a-fancy-restaurant dinner. That morphed into appetizers with drinks at the fancy place with a quick stop at a favorite sushi bar. When we saw there was going to be a beer garden, we decided we'd just come back downtown for beer and funnel cake. </div>
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That's how we roll~* </div>
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Thanks to my husband for a great anniversary & wonderful marriage, & thanks to the small town for the 4th of July parade and being home. I'm a lucky girl.</div>
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Just a wee festival celebrating lavender, not too far from where we live. It used to be held in the old downtown, but recently moved to an actual lavender farm-- which seems odd, lavender farm, but there it is. There was lavender teas and honey, lavender infused soaps and scrubs, violet aprons, purple knitting, garden flowers pieced together from random pieces of china, horses and sunshine. A nice way to spend the morning~*</div>
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<left>The other afternoon Bayley (Thing 1) came over and took over the garage for a little fourth of July project. In the interest of full disclosure, her boyfriend did help some-- including taking pictures on his phone of the progress.</left><br />
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She's going to distress it a bit once everything dries, so its not quite finished, but I wanted to get it up in plenty of time for the Fourth. I'll see if I can't get her to send over another pic of the finished product.</div>
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Think I'll blatantly copy her idea and make one for Cecilia... </div>
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I'm taking a break from The Closet's usual tone to talk about cultural appropriation. I think it is being over complicated as bloggers struggle to have their cake and eat it too, if you follow me. Let me try to explain. <br />
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I love how this<a href="http://hellomay.com.au/article/diy-dream-catcher-wedding-decorations/"> crochet</a> looks:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And I'm not calling out this blogger-- I could have gone with <a href="http://www.abeautifulmess.com/2013/01/at-home-with-jennifer-johner.html?cid=6a00d8358081ff69e2017ee7d157e7970d#comment-6a00d8358081ff69e2017ee7d157e7970d">this</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Or<a href="http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=21319850"> this</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And I am not the cultural appropriation police, honest I'm not. But that beautiful piece of crochet that I would love to have in my house, or the one featured on a popular blog or the one for sale at a popular shop is most emphatically </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">not</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> a dream catcher. A dream catcher is a sacred part of Native American cultural history that involves a very specific set of principles and prayers and requires faith in Native American spiritual beliefs. If you want to appreciate and give a nod to Native American culture by having a dream catcher in your home, learn about what they actually stand for, then buy it from a Native American artist. </span><br />
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Using items from another's culture has nothing to do with whether or not you are of that culture. Being 1/16th Cherokee doesn't change what a dream catcher is, and wearing a feathered headdress does not suddenly become okay because your grandmother lived on a reservation. It is about educating yourself, not your genetic make up or ancestry. <br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cultural </span>appropriation<span style="font-family: inherit;"> goes beyond Native American culture, incidentally. We need to stop taking significant terms and/or items of spiritual importance to cultures and applying them to items that are obviously not. St. Patrick's Day is a Catholic feast day, not an excuse to drink green beer. It became synonymous with drinking because of the American-created stereotype of Catholic Irish immigrants as drunken louts-- so all that beer was meant as an insult to Irish culture, not a celebration of it. Cinco de Mayo is the celebration of a hard won battle against French forces in Puebla-- it is not Mexican Independence day and is not celebrated everywhere in Mexico. It is also not an opportunity to decorate with pinatas, eat stereotypical Americanized versions of Mexican foods (tortilla chips were invented in Los Angeles) and drink margaritas (which my have been invented in the United States, and certainly have no historic significance in Mexico). Maori tribal symbols (</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tā moko</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">)</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and Japanese calligraphy actually have a spiritual significance beyond trendy tattooing. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">And I could go on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is disrespectful not to know what the real purpose of those </span>celebrations and<span style="font-family: inherit;"> symbols are, and therein lies the </span>cultural<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>appropriation<span style="font-family: inherit;">. I am not saying we shouldn't celebrate those holidays or use those symbols-- but we should have the compassion and decency to know what we are actually doing. Think of how much we could learn and teach about other cultures if we incorporated a little knowledge with the frivolity. Buying food "from the source," is trendy, why can't buying craft work from the culture who created it be? Why can't the holiday be about what the culture intended instead of an insult disguised as a "celebration"? After all, b</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">eing a nation of immigrants does not give us a right to demean the cultures we are distantly connected to. We are better than that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course this is just my opinion. What are your thoughts?</span></div>
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A quick & easy craft for this week's post (just like I like 'em). I'm sure most of ya'll have seen the how to for making clear bottles look something akin to mercury glass or old silver...</div>
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Get some <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Krylon-K09033000-Looking-Aerosol-6-Ounce/dp/B003971BAY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1402355981&sr=8-1&keywords=looking+glass+spray+paint">Looking Glas</a>s paint, and a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Soft-Style-Spray-Bottle-B28SET/dp/B001CYC4EI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1402356025&sr=8-2&keywords=spray+bottle">spray bottle</a> filled with plain <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Heinz-White-Vinegar-Distilled-128/dp/B007F1MA46/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1402356003&sr=8-1&keywords=white+vinegar">white vinegar</a>. <br />
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Clean the bottles thoroughly and remove any soap residue. Mist them with the vinegar, then spray the Looking Glass paint. Let it dry, wipe off the vinegar, then repeat. Easy peasy.<br />
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Anyway. While you ordering from Amazon, you can pick up some <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001613Q8A/ref=oh_details_o03_s01_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1">play fruit</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Krylon-1406-General-12-Ounce-Metallic/dp/B000RMMOSM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1402356279&sr=8-3&keywords=metallic+silver+spray+paint">metallic paint</a>.<br />
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I put the fruit in a large cardboard box, with strips of cardboard to prevent the fruit from rolling around. Then I gave the fruit a coat of the metallic silver, waited for them to dry, flipped 'em over and repeated. Once that was good and dry, I had a bunch of shiny metallic fruit in a cardboard box. It looked cool-- like something Tiffany's would have in its "gifts for those who have everything" section. <br />
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I've left off pictures of my messy desk. The book is getting written, we have a publisher and I am very excited, but there is still much to do. I've also ignored the disaster area that is the craft room (I had several shreds of thread in my hair all day today and didn't know it until Jeremy got home from the library at 8:15). I've been doing a lot of creative to balance the academic-- I'm thinking there will be a craft post in the Closet's future. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">I am referring to the ageless style characterized by simple softness and casual romance. Gentleness, comfort, peace & love man.</span></div>
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And now we are planning out summer. No classes for me. I've got a book to write and conferences to attend. Before anyone gets too excited, it is a text book that I am writing. I'm rather pleased about it, don't get me wrong, but it isn't as exciting as it sounds. </div>
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I wish I could say I did something amazing. Jeremy had to work, the kids were scattered to the four winds (as teenagers often are) and I was home. With open windows. I cleaned carpets & washed clothes & did some housecleaning. I wandered out in the yard and took pictures of the first signs of spring & smelt the spring air. </div>
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Is it crazy that after ten years I still look at the view from my backyard and just marvel that I live here? It blows this suburban city girls mind. </div>
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I was fortunate enough to see John Denver in concert when I was younger, more times than I can count. Once we came fresh from the beach, badly sunburned, my sister and I-- and we sang along with all the songs and shivered as the sun went down. I think of John Denver as our sibling soundtrack. That and Bob Dylan. Bangled Bup Bin Blue. Never mind, you had to be there.</div>
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Press the tablecloths and cut about half an inch wider that the pillow on all sides.</div>
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Cut two pieces of plain cotton ( if you have enough, you can cut two more pieces of the fabric you have in the front, for three pieces total)</div>
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See! My obsession with old linens paid off~* <span style="text-align: center;">Do you have any quick and easy ways to re-purpose linens or cover pillows?</span></div>
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Which was repeated Wednesday and Thursday. Now you readers know, I do love snow. But this is getting a bit Alaska, if you follow me.<br />
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This week "they" (the <a href="http://www.accuweather.com/">weather dudes</a>, whom I have a love/hate relationship with) are calling for temps that will rise to the mid 70's. I am excited out of proportion. <br />
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Crafts & an Etsy wishlist-- what better way to bring in the spring. Here is to blue skies, tweeting birds and open windows! <br />
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Tree Doodle Tray from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/164530416/tree-doodle-small-8-cheese-tray?ref=tre-2725941204-14">Nicole Porter Design</a><br />
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Adorable Button Tree Art how to from <a href="http://modishspace.com/2013/diy-crafts-for-home-decor-button-tree-crafts-work.html">Modish Space</a><br />
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<left>30 Project in 30 Minutes from <a href="http://www.theshabbycreekcottage.com/2013/05/30-projects-you-can-make-in-under-30.html">The Shabby Creek Cottage</a>-- including this fantastic mason jar flower box</left><br />
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<left>Lemme explain...Remember the <a href="http://aclosetintellectual.blogspot.com/2013/11/countdown-calendar-how-to.html">countdown calendar</a> I made for the holidays?</left><br />
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As I said <a href="http://aclosetintellectual.blogspot.com/2013/11/countdown-calendar-how-to.html">in that how to post</a>, I intended to keep it up, altering what was hanging from it according to the season. After Christmas, I replaced the ornaments with snowflakes.</div>
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<left>I was struggling to figure out what to do for spring. I got to thinking too linearly, you know? I kept vacillating between doing birds (which I thought was kind of expected) or flowers (which I thought would look odd, just blooms hanging), and since I wasn't sold on either idea I did nothing. </left><br />
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<left>I cobbled together my version from several different ideas I found online-- <i>passim</i> as we call it in academia. A very useful citation device, passim. It means you got it from here and there within a source. In this case, my source was the internet~*</left><br />
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<left>Find and cut out a pattern for a hot air balloon, clouds and birds online (or freehand-- I got the hot air balloon online, and drew the rest). </left><br />
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Since I wanted the basket to be separate, I cut off the balloon shape at the base of the balloon. <br />
Cut out three shapes each per balloon and per cloud (if you were doing a 360 version, you'd need 6 per balloon/cloud).<br />
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Fold the one shape gently down the center, then use a ruler to draw a line. Attach the 3 pieces together with paperclips. Or clothespins if you can't find paperclips & get tired of looking for 'em~*</div>
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Now for the baskets. Cut two strips of paper (one per basket). You will have to judge how wide/long based on the size of your balloons.<br />
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You could opt to do the birds 3 dimensional as well by cutting multiples and layering them as I did with the clouds and balloons, or you could do them 360 by adhering two together. I chose to leave them flat and one sided to make them simpler visually. Anyway, easy-peasy, just trace and cut out!</div>
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If you want them to hang, either in a frame or as part of a mobile, there is still a bit more to do. Get some filament thread or fine fishing line. For the birds, I simply attached the fishing line with hot glue. The dab of glue gave the birds enough weight to pull the line straight and allowed them to hang neatly. For a 360 effect, glue on the filament, then glue another of the same cut out to hide the filament.</div>
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For the clouds and hot air balloons, I used hot glue in the seam to create little loops. To get it nice and tight, I clothes-pinned the center pieces together, and used the tips of my scissors to hold the filament in place. </div>
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I used the same ornate ornament hooks that I got for the calendar to hang the pieces. For the cloud between the two balloons, I poked a hole with a needle and attached it directly to the hook, and attached two birds to the cloud. I varied the other clouds and birds, depending on the look I was going for.</div>
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<left>I've said before that I don't particularly enjoy watching television or going to movies. I have a short attention span, at least when it comes to passive entertainment. People who know me know that I actually can be doggedly driven to a single purpose when the mood strikes-- I obsess, I ponder, I plan, I will not be diverted. I pay attention when it matters, is my point. And for me, television doesn't matter enough for me to carry a plot beyond a single episode.</left><br />
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Last Saturday was D-n-D night, and it was epic.<br />
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I tied it off with the same green ribbon I used for the garland, then tied it through the loop onto the end of the garland. I've seen numerous pins where folks have made an entire garland of the tassels-- super easy & cute.</div>
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I'm going to leave it up for a while. At least until it starts getting hot and I start craving simple, clean spaces. Right now I like the coziness of <i>All The Stuff,</i> if you follow.</div>
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Isn't the porcelain glove mold on the mantel utterly divine?? My folks got it for me at the last auction. I adore it. I'll show you the mirror they also got me, which is now hanging next to me in the craft room, in another post (I've already posted it on Instagram if you are burning with curiosity). We haven't been to an auction in an age-- we've been treading close to the budget due to Harper Ann's recent acquiring of a driver's license which necessitated our acquiring of a car. Sigh. Teenagers. But hopefully things will even back out soon & we can hit up the auction next month. I'll take pictures~*</div>
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