June 19, Backyard Baseball

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It’s been a pretty nice day here in Iowa, and my family is out taking advantage, using up the very last of the sunlight for a little backyard baseball.  That’s my nephew pitching, Will hitting, Joe catching, Mark off in the outfield fielding, and unfortunately, my niece didn’t make it in the picture.  She’s off [...]

June 7, Portrait of Someone Who Did Something Stupid

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My hands were too full:  I was putting my running shoes back on the shelf after exercising.  Turns out  I couldn’t do that and hang on to my iPod at the same time. It took a bath in the dog’s freshly filled water dish. Damn. (The quilt has been washed 2 more times, with no [...]

June 6, Portrait of a Pissed Off Quilter

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What’s with the face you may be asking?  Well, look at this freaking mess: It’s not so much that some of the red bled.  It’s that there are THREE different fabrics in all of those scrappy cream fabrics that decided to be really good receivers of the excess red dye. Bad.  Words. It’s been through [...]

June 5

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Uh, how did it get to be the 5th of June already?  For that matter:  how is it possibly JUNE?  June 2010 no less?  Gah. Today’s picture is another mirror portrait.  The trick (well, one of them…) for somewhat normal looking mirror portraits is that you always look at the camera lens, even if the [...]

June 3

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Me: This is for Lynn, it’s a two-fer.  You get the “looking over the glasses” look as well as the shot with the brand-new really expensive prescription sunglasses.  And look, lip gloss! My sister wanted to know why I’m torturing myself with self-portraits.   I’m ignoring the e-mails between her and my mom where they [...]

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