Karen Tessandore
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Baby Shower Time!
Last weekend was the first sunny weather we've had in quite awhile, which worked out perfectly for an end-of-summer party for the little girl who's on her way to my friends. Their last name starts with Z and her first name will be a Z name too. :) I had fun making the 3 tiered
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Majestic Elk
Yesterday, despite the pouring rain, I took the hour-long drive out to the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. The Wood Bison are usually my favorite animals to spend time with, but on this visit the Elk had my attention. This buck was just so beautiful. ~ k
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A Girl and Her Coffee
After a long hiatus, I finally picked up my paint brush again. I initially stopped because I had injured my back and literally couldn't even pick up a paint brush. Amazing to find out just how many motions are connected to our back muscles – only all of them! After healing enough so that I
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From Head to Toe
It all started with plans to be in L.A. this weekend. My friend Meg and I had tickets to zip down to California for a weekend class called Exploration of Millinery: Sculptural Straw Hats. Meg and her husband have been waiting to adopt a baby, which is a bit of an emotional roller coaster. Taking
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Tour de France 2011
Johnny Hoogerland’s stage 9
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Back to the Beginning
When I first started this blog, which is really when I first committed to making my creative life a priority, I was drawing girls and then coloring them in Photoshop. On this rainy weekend I decided to mess around with that process again. The nice thing about using Photoshop is that nothing is permanent if
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Polyvore
In case you don't have enough reasons to spend way too much time on the computer…have you heard of polyvore.com? After crocheting a bit today and baking some bread, I got pulled into the polyvore website making these style pages. So fun! :) These are all things I would wear, had I the money for
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Wood Bison
Don't you love that face? This is a wood bison at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. We visited about a month ago and these were my favorite animals but I didn't get any good photos that day. We decided to purchase a one year membership so we could go back and see how the animals