Karen Tessandore
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Some Things I Saw in Baltimore
Egg sculpture outside of the American Visionary Art Museum – my favorite museum ever. I visited many, many times in the week I was in Baltimore. + They have the best gift shop. That alone is worth the visit. It looks like it could have been curated by John Waters (a Baltimore native) – weird
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Blending Practice
Finally learning how to use my colored pencils. I like how, after blending the colors for awhile, it actually burnishes the paper to a shine… xo ~ k
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My Cousin & A Guppy
See that crazy, squatty thing? It's a Guppy…and it can fly! Technically, it's an airplane called NASA 941 or N941NA – but also called the Super Guppy. And this guy in sunglasses… is my cousin Mike! He's the Flight Engineer on the Guppy. Isn't that cool? Honestly, I know nothing about aviation so I learned
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Say Cheese!
Oooo…I've been wanting this Fuji Instax Mini camera for SO long. :) I love the little biz-card size polaroids it takes and I love the click-wrrrr sound of the picture popping out the top of the camera. As you can see, I had to test it out on my chickies. They thought it was cool
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Small Happy Things on my 43rd Birthday
I'm 43 today! That's a good number I think. A good age. I decided I just wanted a quiet birthday in this year because sometimes alone is my favorite way to spend a day. Must be an only-child thing. This lovely cake was made for me by my friends Meg & Zach and their most-beautiful-baby-in-the-world,
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Valentine’s Bug
Happy Valentine's Day! My favorite. :) It's become a bit of a tradition for me to bring a little heart-shaped box of chocolates to each of my coworkers on Valentine's Day. But there's one woman there who really isn't a fan of sweets. Every year when I'm passing out the treats, I'm at a loss
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Math Melt-Down
This is what I was staring at for most of the evening, and may I just say….aarrrggghh! Math brought me to my knees tonight, metaphorically speaking–but only just. I'm going to need to hire a tutor. Finding out that math is just as hard as it always has been for me wasn't surprising, but it
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Nostalgia Friday
Some wonderful things from your childhood just stick with you…maybe not right in the forefront of your mind, but kind of on the periphery like a dream. This book is one of those things for me. I started vaguely remembering it a few years ago and finally went online (what did we do before the
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Fun with Police
Of all the Christmas presents I was lucky to receive this year, this is one of my favorites – it's a lego prisoner transport set! How nifty is that? My Mom got it for me because of my love of all things law enforcement and/or corrections-related. And speaking of… I get to be on the