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	<title>Cindy La Ferle's Home Office &#187; arts and crafts</title>
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		<title>Crafting a mystery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.&#8221; &#8211;Phyllis George Who was she? It&#8217;s likely I&#8217;ll never know. I found her photograph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancestor art</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["The Importance of Ancestors" by Cindy La Ferle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn&#8217;t say any other way &#8212; things I had no words for.&#8221;  ~Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe One of the many things I appreciate about my artist-architect husband is that he&#8217;s always encouraging me to push my own artwork to the next level. Given that our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DIY Christmas cards</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.&#8221;  ~Norman Vincent Peale Give me any holiday, and I&#8217;ll make a greeting card for it. No matter how crazy-busy life gets, I like to think of card-making as instant art therapy. It&#8217;s a terrific way to unwind after a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gotta have art</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/03/gotta-have-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just for writers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA["Now I Become Myself"]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[art blogs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bimringham Bloomfield Art Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Botticelli's Venus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collage art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[May Sarton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[midlife reinvention]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn&#8217;t say any other way &#8211; things I had no words for.&#8221; ~Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe Until recently, I was a bit shy about entering my altered art pieces in contests and competitions. More complex than my writing, my artwork is intensely personal &#8212; a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shifting creative gears</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/02/shifting-creative-gears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enjoy a tiny adventurous moment close to home. It changes your perspective, reminding you that the world is deep and rich and full of color and miracles.&#8221; &#8211;SARK A lot of us are stumbling over creative blocks lately. Those who live in the wintry Midwest and Northeast blame it on lack of sunshine. Or cabin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Poet&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/01/the-poet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let her have a chair, her shadeless lamp, the table.&#8221; &#8212; Jane Hirshfield, &#8220;The Poet&#8221; The place in which we work &#8212; an art studio, a home office, a spare bedroom, or the corner booth at the local diner &#8212; is essential to our creative lives. I often hear would-be writers and artists complain that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art, Magic, Halloween</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/10/art-magic-halloween/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before.&#8221; &#8212; Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Like the perfect pumpkin waiting for a master carver, Halloween never fails to stir the imagination. Not surprisingly, it&#8217;s a favorite holiday among the creative souls in my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The art of motherhood</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/05/the-art-of-motherhood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 12:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The mother&#8217;s heart is the child&#8217;s schoolroom.&#8221; &#8212; Henry Ward Beecher With Mother&#8217;s Day approaching, I&#8217;ve been thinking about how my mother shaped my views on career, homemaking, and motherhood. Like most children in the 1950s and &#8217;60s, I took for granted that Mom would be waiting at home each afternoon when I returned from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now on exhibit</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/04/now-on-exhibit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.&#8221; &#8212; Henry David Thoreau While I&#8217;m taking a break this week, I wanted to share a small piece of good news with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saints &amp; found objects</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/03/junk-or-treasure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve learned over the years that there is beauty not only in perfection but also in erosion, possession, and remembrance.&#8221; &#8212; Barbara Hodgson, Trading in Memories Rummaging through boxes at garage sales and thrift shops is one of my favorite addictions. But I don&#8217;t stop there. Neighbors often spot me gathering found objects for my [...]]]></description>
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