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81Amazing Yarn Eye Candy from My Stash for Your Enjoyment
I bet there are a lot of other yarn lovers out there who, like me, love looking at beautiful yarn. It’s not quite the same if you can’t touch it but nevertheless I thought I’d share some eye candy photos of my yarn stash for the other yarn lovers out there.
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80Where Today’s High-Tech Metals and Minerals Come From
Have you ever wondered what metals and minerals go into the making of your consumer electronics? Have you ever wondered where those minerals come from? Here are some of those answers in the form of a list of common metals and minerals used in those gadgets and the locations that they typically come from.
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68How UPS is Going Green in the Air
UPS is known for its big brown trucks but of course they also use planes to get those many packages from one place to another. A few years ago they gained some really negative attention because of the fact that their airplane fleets weren’t too...
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776 Napa Vineyards For the Art Lover
The six Napa Vineyards on this list are all places that you can tour, do some wine tasting and also enjoy art and design on display during your visit.
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You want to visit Napa. You want to go wine tasting. But what you don’t want is to spend your time with all of the other tourists that are visiting Napa. So, what do you do? The off-the-beaten-path wineries and vineyards on this list provide great opportunities for enjoying wine in a great Napa setting without the tour bus visitors on your heels. Each vineyard on this list of five offers you a chance to try a different type of wine in a unique and wonderful setting.
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There is one major reason that people travel to Napa Valley, CA: wine. There are countless wineries in this area where you can enjoy tasting a diverse range of different wines in a lot of different types of settings. So how do you go about choosing which vineyards are worth checking out during your trip? One way to narrow down the choices is to make the earth-conscious decision to go to vineyards with green practices. The organically grown grapes and kind-to-the-earth farming practices are good
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68Finding Poetry in the Parts of a Shell
Before I knew about shells, I had no idea that their different parts were so interesting! Each part has a name and the name is new and fresh and poetic. Each shell part name conjures up amazing imagery and yet in itself is a beautiful word. And then there are the words that are commonly used to describe the different parts of shells to people who collect and look closely at them and that, too, is a poetic language.
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69Desert Shell
Desert Shell I remember hiking My ex, my siblings, me Dessert heat blaring loud against my skin Unhappy mind reverberating upon itself Endless echo of depression in the canyon I walked clearly marked trails in mountains I had no...
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76Lovely Letter to a Vintage French Yarn
This is one letter in a collection of short stories written as love letters. The collection is designed to depict the love/ hate relationship that I sometimes have with a type of yarn or a piece I’m working on when I crochet. This letter is...
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69Stunted: A Poem
This is a fairly fresh poem about a topic that I haven’t yet found it easy to talk about in a less vague, more open way. That’s what I love about poetry; you can explore the depths of your feelings and find a way to express yourself without having to say explicitly what you are personally going through. You need to go through it and be willing to share it but poetry can be written when the experience is still a little bit raw.
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