all my own project 365 (+1)

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2008-11-21T19:02:00.002-07:00

“The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.”
- Marcelene Cox
Did a little retail therapy today! But got some super bargains. Click for notes.

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2008-11-20T21:55:00.000-07:00

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet
must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
What a man can be, he must be."
- Abraham H. Maslow

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2008-11-19T16:50:00.000-07:00

"Happiness walks on busy feet."
- Author Unknown

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2008-11-18T14:45:00.001-07:00

"Hope is like the sun, which as we journey towards it,
casts the shadow of our burden behind us."
- Author Unknown

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2008-11-17T18:42:00.000-07:00

"Never, ever, regret something that made you smile."
- Author Unknown

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2008-11-16T15:37:00.001-07:00

"If life deals you lemons made lemonade."
- Proverb
this is the same fruit as this. they actually are lemons... just about to change color.

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2008-11-15T18:33:00.000-07:00

"The crab that walks too far falls into the pot."
- Haitian Proverb

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2008-11-14T10:30:00.000-07:00

"Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor."
- Author Unknown

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2008-11-13T09:20:00.000-07:00

"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."
- Leo Buscaglia

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2008-11-12T18:02:00.000-07:00

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power
then the world will know peace."
- Jimi Hendrix

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2008-11-11T13:13:00.000-07:00

"Some people wanted champagne and caviar
when they should have had beer and hot dogs."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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2008-11-10T18:06:00.000-07:00

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty.
Believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
- Louisa May Alcott

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2008-11-09T19:57:00.000-07:00

“Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.”
- Bill Blass
This is my second collage of color this year. All of these red items were found on one shopping trip to IKEA. This is IKEA RED.
see IKEA ORANGE here.

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2008-11-08T12:35:00.000-07:00

"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it."
- Author Unknown

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2008-11-07T19:12:00.000-07:00

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
- William Shakespeare

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2008-11-06T17:48:00.002-07:00

"Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun."
- Kahlil Gibran

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2008-11-05T10:03:00.000-07:00

"I've learned from experience that the greater part
of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances."
- Martha Washington

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2008-11-04T11:08:00.004-07:00

"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America
is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders
if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still
questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer."
- President-elect Barack Obama

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2008-11-03T22:15:00.003-07:00

"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.
Sometimes age just shows up all by itself."
- Tom Wilson

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2008-11-02T23:32:00.003-07:00

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family."
- Anthony Brandt

306/366

2008-11-01T21:07:00.002-07:00

"Your body is a temple, but how long can you
live in the same house before you redecorate?"
- Author Unknown

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2008-10-31T23:25:00.001-07:00

"May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright
Of soft and golden hue
Pierce through the future’s veil and show
What fate now holds for you."
- Author Unknown

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2008-10-30T21:39:00.001-07:00

"We cannot all do great things but we can do
small things with great love."
- Mother Teresa

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2008-10-29T21:19:00.002-07:00

"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise.
Wisdom makes life endurable."
- John Patrick

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2008-10-28T16:05:00.001-07:00

"The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything."
- Lee Iacocca

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2008-10-27T11:12:00.002-07:00

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."
- Lena Horne

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2008-10-26T21:38:00.003-07:00

"Very much a woman; yet still a little girl."
- Author Unknown

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2008-10-25T21:37:00.003-07:00

"May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow
to keep you human enough hope to make you happy."
- Author Unknown

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2008-10-24T19:43:00.002-07:00

"We have to pursue this subject of fun very seriously
if we want to stay competitive in the twenty-first century."
- Author Unknown

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2008-10-23T15:14:00.002-07:00

"That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet."
- Emily Dickinson

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2008-10-22T21:30:00.003-07:00

"Do not fear death but rather the life unlived.
You do not have to live forever. You just have to live."
- Author Unknown

think pink

2008-10-22T21:28:00.001-07:00

I have decided that for the rest of the month (minus Halloween) I will post pink things. I am doing this in honor of breast cancer awareness month. An issue that is near and dear to my heart.

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2008-10-21T18:23:00.002-07:00

"There is one thing which gives radiance to everything.
It is the idea of something around the corner."
- G.K. Chesterton

all caught up

2008-10-20T17:00:00.000-07:00

I was so far behind on my photos... almost a month. But I spent the day today getting all caught up. So please go back a couple pages and get caught up yourself. Sorry about being such a slacker. I will try to keep up for the rest of the year.

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2008-10-20T16:47:00.000-07:00

"I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul."
- from Affirmation by Savage Garden
This is not my picture, but I did do the editing. I had no photo for today, so I decided to post my favorite picture!!

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2008-10-19T22:36:00.000-07:00

"Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn."
- Elizabeth Lawrence

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2008-10-18T18:31:00.000-07:00

"Nature gives to every season, a beauty all its own."
- Charles Dickens

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2008-10-17T23:27:00.000-07:00

"Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding
as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame.
Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away."
- King Solomon

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2008-10-16T21:38:00.001-07:00

"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."
- Coleman Hawkings

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2008-10-15T15:56:00.000-07:00

"The life given us by nature is short but the
memory of a well spent life is eternal."
- Author Unknown

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2008-10-14T22:05:00.000-07:00

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
- Albert Camus

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2008-10-13T21:09:00.002-07:00

"You are only young once, after that you have to think of another excuse."
- Billy Arthur

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2008-10-12T18:44:00.002-07:00

"Flowers always make people better and happier; they are
sunshine, food and medicine to the soul."
- Luther Burbank

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2008-10-11T10:03:00.002-07:00

"The message of dawn is hope."
- Winston Churchill

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2008-10-10T18:39:00.003-07:00

“Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.”
- Keith Urban

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2008-10-09T16:43:00.002-07:00

"You can't have everything... Where would you put it?"
- Steven Wright

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2008-10-08T08:19:00.002-07:00

"I choose to be happy... so I am."
- Belinda Emmett

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2008-10-07T23:01:00.002-07:00

"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."
- William Wordsworth
same tree as here and here

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2008-10-06T14:42:00.001-07:00

"Each day comes bearing it's own gift. Untie the ribbons."
Ruth Ann Schubacker

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2008-10-05T13:53:00.002-07:00

"You are loved just as you are right this very moment.
The world has become more wonderful just because you are here."
- Debby Boone

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2008-10-04T21:32:00.001-07:00

"As the beauty of each sunset
marks the passage of time,
every sunrise gives us hope and promise
for all that is yet to come."
- Flavia

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2008-10-03T16:40:00.002-07:00

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you."
- Maori Proverb

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2008-10-02T18:14:00.001-07:00

"Every 'No' is a 'Yes' just waiting for tomorrow."
- Liesl Davidson

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2008-10-01T13:19:00.001-07:00

no quote needed. photo says it all.

September retrospective

2008-09-30T23:46:00.001-07:00

274/366

2008-09-30T21:17:00.002-07:00

"The beauty of a girl cannot be mimicked, fabricated or created
by human means, it only occurs naturally."
- Pam Callaghan

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2008-09-29T22:05:00.004-07:00

"We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting
place in ourselves for those who love us."
- St. Bernard of Claivaux

272/366

2008-09-28T15:16:00.002-07:00

"There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure,
but I don't know many of them."
- Sylvia Plath

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2008-09-27T19:56:00.001-07:00

“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed in the
things you did not do than the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade
winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
– Mark Twain

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2008-09-26T20:32:00.003-07:00

"You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in
your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants."
- Stephen King

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2008-09-25T13:14:00.002-07:00

"There is nothing wrong with America that
cannot be cured with what is right in America."
- Bill Clinton

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2008-09-24T13:54:00.004-07:00

“Health is not valued till sickness comes.”
- Thomas Fuller

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2008-09-23T10:53:00.003-07:00

"Repeat to yourself the most comforting words of all:
This, too, shall pass."
- Ann Landers

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2008-09-22T19:26:00.003-07:00

"A man travels the world over in search of what he
needs and returns home to find it."
George Moore

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2008-09-21T22:42:00.003-07:00

"You can travel the world over to find the beautiful, but
you must carry it with you, or you will find it not."
- Author Unknown

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2008-09-20T23:52:00.004-07:00

"Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion."
- Leigh Hunt

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2008-09-19T20:01:00.004-07:00

"I soon realize that no journey carries one far unless,
as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal
distance into the world within."
- Lillian Smith

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2008-09-18T22:34:00.003-07:00

“All progress occurs because people dare to be different.”
- Harry Millner

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2008-09-17T13:50:00.004-07:00

“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning."
- Author Unknown

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2008-09-16T17:50:00.003-07:00

"If you really want to live you'd better start at once to try.
If you don't it really doesn't matter, but you'd better start to die."
- W. H. Auden

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2008-09-15T21:05:00.002-07:00

"Where words fail, music speaks."
- Hans Christian Andersen

258/366

2008-09-14T19:49:00.002-07:00

"Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember.
Involve me and I understand."
- Chinese Proverb

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2008-09-13T23:39:00.003-07:00

"All I really need is love, but a little
chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!"
- Lucy Van Pelt

256/366

2008-09-12T13:48:00.002-07:00

"Life may not always be a party, but while
you're here you might as well dance."
- Author Unknown

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2008-09-11T22:31:00.001-07:00

I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
I'm lucky we're in love every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday
- lyrics from Lucky by Jason Mraz

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2008-09-10T20:19:00.001-07:00

"If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere."
- Marilyn Monroe

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2008-09-09T17:26:00.000-07:00

"All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good,
too, then doing well will never be enough."
- Anna Quindlen

252/366

2008-09-08T22:15:00.000-07:00

"We are becoming the servants in thought, as in
action, of the machine we have created to serve us."
- John Kenneth Galbraith

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2008-09-07T18:05:00.002-07:00

"The more you laugh, the longer you live."
- Author Unknown

250/366

2008-09-06T22:55:00.000-07:00

"If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose."
- Malcolm Forbes

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2008-09-05T19:02:00.001-07:00

"As time goes by the wonder of who you are never stays
the same, and I am left with so many memories."
- LuAnn Roosa

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2008-09-04T18:57:00.000-07:00

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you
don't want, drink what you don't like and do
what you'd druther not."
- Mark Twain

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2008-09-03T15:21:00.000-07:00

"Distraction is the greatest strategy.
Endless patience is needed."
- Karen Piggin

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2008-09-02T21:35:00.000-07:00

"Have no fixed beliefs, and find your own light."
- Buddha

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2008-09-01T18:23:00.000-07:00

"A true friend thinks of you when all others are thinking of themselves."
- Author Unknown

August retrospective

2008-08-31T21:20:00.000-07:00

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2008-08-31T21:06:00.000-07:00

shirt says it all

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2008-08-30T21:00:00.000-07:00

“All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled.
It is the secret of their attraction.”
- Oscar Wilde

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2008-08-29T20:35:00.001-07:00

"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder

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2008-08-28T23:40:00.000-07:00

“Fish and visitors smell in three days.”
- Benjamin Franklin

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2008-08-27T18:17:00.001-07:00

“Never do today what you can as well do tomorrow, because
something may occur to make you regret your premature action."
- Aaron Burr

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2008-08-26T16:35:00.000-07:00

“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself.
It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance,
or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.”
- Orison Swett Marden

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2008-08-25T15:25:00.001-07:00

"When all else fails, take a bath."
- Rita Sherman

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2008-08-24T23:22:00.000-07:00

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think
I have ended up where I intended to be."
- Douglas Adams

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2008-08-23T16:11:00.003-07:00

"May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter
and every window open to great possibility."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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2008-08-22T22:19:00.002-07:00

"Conscience keeps more people awake than coffee."
- Author Unknown

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2008-08-21T14:10:00.002-07:00

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself
what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the
world needs is people who have come alive."
- Howard Thurman

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2008-08-20T16:14:00.002-07:00

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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2008-08-19T22:10:00.001-07:00

"Discontent is the first necessity of progress."
- Thomas Edison

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2008-08-18T19:13:00.001-07:00

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
- Kahlil Gibran