tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44818016761862814522024-03-14T14:49:50.774-04:00Retro RevivalReviving art and soul of vintageretrorevival.bizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10282966683682003295noreply@blogger.comBlogger509125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4481801676186281452.post-1811377559914319052015-02-03T13:10:00.000-05:002015-02-03T13:10:45.076-05:00Super Deep Fried Super Bowl Sunday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ever get an idea and then really go crazy with it? Captain Project wanted to try making his delicious fried chicken in the turkey fryer on Sunday. When putting together the grocery list, we kept adding things that we wanted to fry (previously, we'd only used the turkey fryer for, well, turkey!).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I present you with pictures of "Paul and Cindy's 1st Annual (because we'd die if we ate like this all the time!) Super Deep Fried Super Bowl Sunday!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Made Paula Deen's recipe for hush puppies:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A few wings:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And finally the chicken that started this whole, crazy idea:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For dessert we wanted to try something I found on Pinterest ~ deep frying Little Debbie Strawberry Cheese Cake Rolls but our grocery doesn't carry them. Instead, I mixed together some cherry pie filling, raspberry jam and cream cheese and rolled them with wonton papers:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I popped them in the freezer to keep while we started the "fry fest" and they stuck together like glue. Could NOT get them apart without tearing the wrappers and ruining them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just as well because we realized deep fried berry desserts in peanut oil would be pretty gross. I suggested we both just pop a Lipitor for dessert!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was all delicious! And as I type this I swear I'm still full! And getting ready to hit the gym. Obviously.</span></div>
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retrorevival.bizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10282966683682003295noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4481801676186281452.post-20378884878709469632015-01-22T08:19:00.001-05:002015-01-22T08:22:45.762-05:00Whimsical Art by Felice Kite<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Felice has a beautiful family ~ husband John and two gorgeous and bright teenage daughters. She has a BS in Interior Design from Virginia Tech. In addition to her interior design work, she began painting about five years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Felice and I knew each other in high school and recently reconnected through Facebook. Long story short, I commissioned her to paint a piece for my studio. Here it is:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Isn't it awesome?! It's SO me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then she transformed this cabinet:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">...into this!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I love them! So colorful and fun ~ I smile every time I walk by them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Felice is such a doll, so cheerful and sweet. And so thoughtful! Look what she surprised me with when I went to her home to pick up the wall art and cabinet:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Eke! The (doggie) love of my life! Felice expertly and beautifully captured exactly what Twyla looks like. Look at the painting next to the photo she used as inspiration:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And I absolutely love how she framed the portrait.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I could go on and on about how much I love the pieces she made for me. Seriously. But I'll move on and show you some of her other work...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She really enjoys creating word art like these pieces:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Painting pet portraits is a fairly new endeavor for Felice. Since painting her first one about a year ago, she's sold over a 130 of them. Look at these cuties:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the summertime, in July, you can find Felice at Carolina Beach Farmer's Market on Saturdays and at Kure Beach Farmer's Market on Tuesday. A beach trip AND art ~ perfect!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Felice counts her wonderful family (including her parents and sister) and friends as wonderful supporters of her art and business. She says, "How did I get so lucky? I will chase this dream forever. It is a great life!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I feel very lucky to have reconnected with her!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Please head over to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Felice-Kite-Artist/308548348164?ref=br_tf" target="_blank">Felice's Facbeook page</a> and give her a like. And if you'd like her to paint you something special, just FB message her!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I made these aprons from vintage fabrics that have stood the test of time! Most of the fabrics are from the 1950's and they're still in excellent shape and very vivid with color.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They're all available in </span><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/RetroRevivalBiz?section_id=14187164&ref=shopsection_leftnav_1" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">my Etsy shop</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> if you want to take a closer look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Happy, happy New Year, my friends!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I made this wreath after seeing similar ones on Pinterest. It's so sparkly, colorful, and fun! And easy to make using these inexpensive goodies I found on sale at a party store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wishing you all the most wonderful things for 2015!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm so very excited thinking of all the new opportunities awaiting us all!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">...an order on Christmas day for 13 of my vintage Christmas tablecloth aprons!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Perfect way to end the year!</span></div>
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retrorevival.bizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10282966683682003295noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4481801676186281452.post-83644525405289570562014-12-25T07:47:00.005-05:002014-12-25T07:47:56.464-05:00Merry Christmas!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We spent an early Christmas in NYC last weekend with our daughter and son-in-law. They're so cute:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since Captain Project nor I had ever been to the city at Christmastime, they happily gave us the grand tour of all of the most iconic spots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My favorite thing? All of the giant Christmas ornaments and decorations sprinkled throughout the city.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Aren't these amazing?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And this is Daughterlypoo and me at one of the many outdoor skating rinks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had so much fun! Spending time with family is the best Christmas present I could ever receive!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've lived with dogs all my life. Two Boxers (at the same time), a Great Dane, a Doberman, a German Sheppard/Cocker Spaniel mix, a Cocker Spaniel, and now Twyla. Never before, with any of our other dogs, have I been so ridiculous...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But I just cannot help myself!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ooooh how I love this Beagle!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the kitchen, I found a small, rustic looking tree and put it into one of my old watering cans:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the space between the kitchen and living room, I've set up my "forest" of mercury glass trees:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the family room, atop our vintage radio cabinet (converted into a bar/see previous post <a href="http://retrorevivalbiz.blogspot.com/2013/08/vintage-tube-radio-cabinet-repurposed.html" target="_blank">here</a>), stands the elf-ish musicians:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And in one of the side chairs sits a pillow I made from a vintage 1950s tablecloth:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Merry & bright indeed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A closer glimpse of some of my favorite ornaments...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Remember the Elsa apron I made for my niece's 5th birthday (prior post <a href="http://retrorevivalbiz.blogspot.com/2014/11/elsa-apron.html" target="_blank">here</a>)?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Almost as much as I love her!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Found them at World Market.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>"Did I tell you how divinely and utterly happy I am?"</em> ~ Holly Golightly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This line from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" immediately came to mind when I found this fabric!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Of course I had to use it to make a <a href="http://www.retrorevival.biz/" target="_blank">Retro Revival</a> apron.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Every so often I have a customer who asks me to make them an apron from fabric they own. Tammie's mother had made her and her sister dresses out of this Raggedy Ann fabric when they were little girls. She's been holding on to the extra fabric for years, waiting to have something special made from it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you ever need a custom Retro Revival apron please just shoot me a message.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My Thanksgiving and fall-inspired aprons are selling out as quickly as the last of the leaves are falling from the trees!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And a few I made with retro-inspired, new fabrics:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wearing one of these will surely ease your toiling in the kitchen! Or if you're heading to someone else's home for Thanksgiving, they make the perfect hostess gift!</span></div>
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retrorevival.bizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10282966683682003295noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4481801676186281452.post-34509007856035851292014-11-11T06:09:00.000-05:002014-11-11T06:12:23.108-05:00Veterans Day Eagle Door Decor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I found this old, plastic eagle while out thrifting recently. Thought he'd be the perfect door decoration for Veterans Day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some craft paint and spray varnish added some color and shine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So patriotic, I love it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm so grateful for all of our veterans and their families, and feel forever indebted to those heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was totally bitten, I mean smitten, by a vampire pumpkin I saw at the craft store but he was $69.99. That's batty! For less than $20 I made my own. Here's how you can make one too...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To make the cape, cut a rectangular piece of red satin, 1 1/2 times the circumference of the big pumpkin. Sew a small hem along one of the long sides (this will be the collar). On the inside of the satin, about 4" down from your hem, stitch in a piece of single bias tape, all along the long side. Thread a piece of elastic through the bias tape, pull it taught (this creates the ruffle) and stitch in place. Add a piece of ribbon on each side of the cape where you sewed the elastic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tie the cape onto the pumpkin and cut triangles out of the bottom of it to finish off the cape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had so much fun making this little guy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I made my first <a href="http://www.retrorevival.biz/" target="_blank">Retro Revival</a> Bouquet Beauty shower cap a few months ago (prior post </span><a href="http://retrorevivalbiz.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-ultimate-shower-cap.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">), it was really a lark ~ blending my love of flowers with the practicality of a quality made shower cap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I really didn't expect to sell it. But it did! And now, several months later, they keep selling, two this week, in fact!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My BFF Melanie does so many things so wonderfully. In fact, I think she's perfectly wonderful, the truest of all friends!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our mutual love of pie goes way back. This was us eating chocolate pie for breakfast in Vegas almost 20 years ago!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Despite her perfection, she struggles with making pie crusts and recently asked me to help her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'd never used a mechanical peeler before so this was fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We used <a href="http://www.culinate.com/recipes/collections/Contributors/beth_howard/apple_pie" target="_blank">Beth Howard's recipe</a> and followed her proven techniques. Click <a href="http://retrorevivalbiz.blogspot.com/2014/04/ms-american-pie.html" target="_blank">here</a> for one of my prior posts about Beth (she's the true expert on pie making!).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I think where Melanie had been going wrong may have been that she'd been handling the crust too much, trying to make it perfect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The quicker you can throw the ingredients in the bowl and fluff them together with your hands, the better. I've found that my most flaky, buttery crusts have come from handling the pastry for less than 4 minutes ~ that's from the time I toss the ingredients together, roll the crust, and place it in the pie dish. Fast. Gotta be really fast!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Walah! Melanie made a beautiful pie!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The crust was deliciously buttery and very flaky!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you're looking for more pie baking inspiration, check out my <a href="http://www.retrorevival.biz/" target="_blank">Retro Revival</a> pie aprons:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They're available in <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/RetroRevivalBiz?section_id=6493572&ref=shopsection_leftnav_2" target="_blank">my Etsy shop</a>...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">...or message me for details. I ship for free to my friends and family!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've finally joined the modern world and bought a smartphone. For a good two years I'd been resisting it ~ working from home I just didn't see the need. Then my old flip phone started acting wonky and last week the GPS in the car died. Yep, it was time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So not only does my iPhone allow me to text till my heart's content (I got charged for this on my old phone), but I can take pictures! This was the view on my walk yesterday...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And these are my new pony-haired leopard print booties. I think they're so fabulous!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yay for technology! And leopard print!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A touch of the macabre for Halloween</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The bride and groom are my most favorite ghouls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A small apothecary filled with miniature skulls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A mercury glass pumpkin ~ a cherished gift from my BFF.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A pumpkin-headed ghost ~ see the black kitty popping out of the pumpkin?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And this little vignette</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All I have left to do now is buy the candy for the little goblins who'll come knocking on the door soon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fall seems to be flying by just about as quickly as the leaves are changing color here in the DC area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And my <a href="http://www.retrorevival.biz/" target="_blank">Retro Revival</a> apron orders are piling up as high as the raked leaves!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I think everyone is looking forward to Thanksgiving celebrations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I know we are!</span></div>
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