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Blog | Odd Bird Studio: the business of a creative life: Blog-cation
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April 14, 2015. As you may have noticed, I'm taking a little vacation from the land of blog, a blog-cation. One unforeseen advantage of my job: having done the weekly bookkeeping for the organization for the last couple of months made preparing our income taxes this past weekend seem far less of a hassle and burdensome than ever before.). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Meet the odd bird. View my complete profile. Befriend an odd bird. All original content © 2011-2015 Laurie Lundin. New Stitch a Day.
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Blog | Odd Bird Studio: the business of a creative life: Lighten
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January 7, 2015. Lighten the load, relinquish, unburden, lighten up, disencumber, relieve. Literally and figuratively. Physically, mentally, and emotionally. To begin, an accessible way to put lighten. Into practice with the benefit of rewarding (reinforcing) immediate results: one drawer a day. There goes a little weight that has been resting on my shoulders that I didn't even know was there. Lighten. I'm actually looking forward to it. So far, I've sorted two bookcase shelves with this method and i...
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Blog | Odd Bird Studio: the business of a creative life: S.o.S.
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March 17, 2015. According to the calendar, it is still a few days away, but here in SW Ohio we are experiencing Signs of Spring:. The walking path in the woods that just a week ago was crusted with snow and frozen footprints is now a morass of mud, bogs, and running water. Laundry drying on the line outside rather than on racks in front of the fire. Fuzzy flannel bed sheets replaced with crisp, cool cotton. Robin scratching the ground under the feeder. Peepers filling the night air with song. Pittsburgh ...
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Blog | Odd Bird Studio: the business of a creative life: A Start
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March 29, 2015. It's not much. This little pile of tissue and ribbon. But it's a start. The beginning of lightening. On a large scale. Of combing through everything - each and every thing - under this roof. Then deciding whether to keep it or send it to a new home. Consolidating like with like is the first step. Making decisions about the piles of sympathetic things is the next. Creating dedicated spaces to hold them is part of the process. (Oh how I long for an organized home! Meet the odd bird. All con...
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Jennifer Brown Designs: Urbane Reclamation Furniture Restoration
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October 22, 2012. Urbane Reclamation Furniture Restoration. This past week I was fortunate to be able to visit Urbane Reclamation. An upcycled furniture business in Pittsburgh's East End. The owner and founder, Emily Bush gave me a tour of her shop showed me her showcase of finished projects. All of her pieces have been gently used and need just a little TLC to get them looking spiffy again. While visiting, she even let me have a hand at refinishing a chair! Here's how the process works:. Over the next d...
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Jennifer Brown Designs: October 2012
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October 31, 2012. Hanging Quotes in InDesign. Hanging quotes and hanging punctuation in InDesign are very easy to create, adjust, and undo. Lets say that you have a section of text that contains quotation marks. The quotation marks should hang to the left on the body of copy. All of the other characters are aligned left. The glyph is the only thing that extends into the margin. Here's how to accomplish this:. 1) Create a text box that contains a quotation mark at the beginning. October 22, 2012. Emily pi...
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Blog | Odd Bird Studio: the business of a creative life: Reclaiming a Garden
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May 5, 2015. I forgot to take a proper "before" picture, but here's what the bed looked like two years ago. As you can well imagine, two years of benign neglect did not improve matters. Picture a tangled, verdant bed, 18 inch grasses and weeds swaying in the breeze. Engulfed by the thriving weeds, several clumps of lilies were slowly asphyxiating. Here's where my stockpiling. Of potentially useful materials comes in handy. Hello Ikea flat packs. You made wonderful gardening fodder. In one corner of the b...
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Blog | Odd Bird Studio: the business of a creative life: This Week
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May 2, 2015. This teabag, this post. On restoration by my friend Xan, and this "retreat". Creative Notebook by Crafting Connections. Offered as a free download over on SouleMama. Came together this week for a synchronistic kick in my butt. In a good way. Intention continues in my office / studio. I'm attacking the files and papers and ephemera with no mercy. So far I've eliminated three grocery bags of paper shreds (only overheated the poor shredder once! Also this week, I committed to lightening. Is cho...
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Blog | Odd Bird Studio: the business of a creative life: What's Cookin'
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March 23, 2015. It's good to get back to cooking and sitting down at the table with the Hubs to enjoy freshly made meals. Recipes for lemon cream pasta with English peas and coconut lentil soup with greens can be found in Moosewood's Simple Suppers. And just because our taste of spring has me itching for open windows and soft breezes, I pulled a taste of summer out of the freezer. Wild raspberries from our backyard. I followed this recipe. And added 1 tsp of grated orange zest) which made a very thick ba...
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