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Monday Update
It’s been a looonnnnggg but boring and busy few weeks, with minimal time for creating bloggy material and content happening in my life, so I figure it’s time for a quick update on what’s been keeping me occupied. I’m… …working on: grading research papers. I’ve got 105 five to seven page papers to work through. Even just looking at the stack is overwhelming. I have to keep reminding myself that it’s all for the greater good. And that the massive amounts of unpaid time I use notating and commenting on their writing will help them in the future because they’ll take what they learn from this experience and apply it…
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Flea Market Finds
So I found these beautiful watercolor paintings at an indoor flea market a few weeks ago. The guy who sold them to me said they were from the 1930’s, which would make them pre-war productions (he re-matted and reframed them). They seem to be somewhat mass produced – the outline of the painting is pressed into the paper, and then an individual artist added color. He may have been full of shit (although he was a super nice and interesting guy who seemed to know what he was talking about – we spent a lot of time talking about the fossils he was selling and he def knew what was…
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So I Fixed an Antique Table
So it’s been a while since I’ve posted about something productive on here – I honestly just haven’t been that crafty/industrious lately. Except, I fixed a table. My Aunt had given this table to us when we first moved into this new apartment. The one catch was that it was broken – specifically, the dowel pins that stabilize the table had rotted away and broken over the years, leaving the legs detached and wobbly. It was an easy fix, but not something she was willing to put the time into, so ours it became… …and then it proceeded to sit in her garage for a year because me, Jim, and…
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Cleaning Up My Pinterest
So I’ve been a powerhouse of productivity today. I finished my ENTIRE work to-do list for the next two days, AND I got two long review posts that I’ve been working on for weeks finally finalized to a point I’m happy with (be on the lookout for them the next two Wednesdays!). Super awesome, right? This is seriously the first time since the very beginning of the semester that I’ve had some free time to do misc. blog stuff. So I’ve been cleaning up some planned posts, and then I decided to finally tackle something that’s been on my blog to-do list forEVER: cleaning up my Pinterest account. I’ve had…