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		<title>Long time no post&#8230;&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a question for ya&#8230;&#8230;is it a good thing or a bad thing to have no real creative focus?  To feel the need to flit from thing to thing &#8211; to be a creative tart (in the most vernacular sense of the word)? There are so many things that I have my creative soul immersed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwillowblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=20080201&#038;post=508&#038;subd=blackwillowblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gettin&#8217; all webby</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So.  I&#8217;ve been busy re-building websites.   Now, I&#8217;m no expert at this and I am the queen of using templates.  Why have I had to rebuild my websites?  Well, one was because a previous site host was too expensive for what I was getting so I shut down the site in September last year [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwillowblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=20080201&#038;post=428&#038;subd=blackwillowblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting things done</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had plans for today and I&#8217;m pleased to say that I got pretty much all of it done. First job was to re-arrange the furniture in the attic bedroom so that a fairly tall cupboard that stores my daughters arts and crafts stuff was directly under the window up there.  This is the one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwillowblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=20080201&#038;post=414&#038;subd=blackwillowblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As Winter wanders away&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;I am feeling so much brighter and happier.  I do dislike the greyness and general coldness of winter, and to be honest, if I won the Lottery I would probably buy another home somewhere that was warm and sunny.  Why buy another home and not just relocate?  Because I do love the UK bizarrely.  I&#8217;d [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwillowblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=20080201&#038;post=379&#038;subd=blackwillowblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Things&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;.but not new things I have made. It&#8217;s been a funny couple of weeks.  Very cold weather meant that I spent most days last week wearing my coat indoors between 9am and 3.00pm and getting very little done whilst J was at nursery. And then at the weekend there was a great flurry of things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwillowblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=20080201&#038;post=377&#038;subd=blackwillowblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Temple to atheists</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a recent convert to Richard Dawkins I think that the idea of an Atheist monument still gives credence to the idea of a god.  So read some Richard Dawkins with an open mind and read journalists as having agenda.  Dawkins says seeing someone as an Atheist means having an inherent belief in god&#8230;.. Up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwillowblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=20080201&#038;post=372&#038;subd=blackwillowblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Belly dance headdresses &#8211; and other things&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The week to come is a busy busy one&#8230;. Amongst the motherly duties and volunteering that I do I have a new class promote via posters and fliers.  I hope it doesn&#8217;t rain this week as I really do not fancy walking around posting the fliers through doors in cold wintry rain.  Monday evening?  Not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwillowblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=20080201&#038;post=367&#038;subd=blackwillowblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Project De-Stash</title>
		<link>http://blackwillowblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/project-de-stash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I really wish that I had a room all to myself for my stash of stuff that I use to make things with.  The set-up I do have is pretty good though, everything is stored in the under-stairs cupboard in various boxes and I&#8217;m pretty good at storing like with like &#8211; the feathers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwillowblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=20080201&#038;post=353&#038;subd=blackwillowblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Crafting</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;.has not been done by me unless you count food I&#8217;ve done very little except for think about things that are *in production*, and look at a bag of rhinestones to sort out in my minds eye the ones I want to use on a headdress that&#8217;s about a third of the way to completion&#8230;. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwillowblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=20080201&#038;post=338&#038;subd=blackwillowblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Picture of Santa</title>
		<link>http://blackwillowblog.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/picture-of-santa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My son (aged three) has gone though a milestone I wanted to share.  This week he drew a picture of Santa.  In fact he has drawn multiple pictures of Santa.  What&#8217;s fabulous about them is that I can see they are a picture of someone.  To be honest they mostly look like Mr Tickle but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwillowblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=20080201&#038;post=333&#038;subd=blackwillowblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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