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	<title>Making Our Own Luck</title>
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		<title>Painting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve finished a couple of paintings this week.

This one I had been working on for awhile. I did the hexagons back in the summer and could never really figure out what to do what the rest of it. I know bee&#8217;s seem a little obvious but I had the idea to do something a little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makingourownluck.com/2012/01/06/painting/</link>
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		<title>Calvin and Hobbes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the holidays I began a pretty ambitious embroidery project. I wanted a challenge but I may have pushed myself a bit too far. I decided to turn a Calvin and Hobbes comic into a pretty piece of stitching. I&#8217;m using a single strand of thread in order to get the letters precisely where I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makingourownluck.com/2012/01/04/calvin-and-hobbes/</link>
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		<title>Forget Rest We Need Lumber</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a long drive home from the holidays, unpacking all of our gifts and packing all of our Christmas decorations all we wanted to do was sleep. But instead we got busy DIY-ing!
We were given an aquarium from Brian&#8217;s family but nothing to sit it on. We bought lumber and stain, and got busy.
We had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makingourownluck.com/2012/01/02/forget-rest-we-need-lumber/</link>
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		<title>Buy Handmade? Or Ask For Handmade?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a big push among crafty types to buy presents handmade, either DIY or from another crafter. I think for the most part this is a great thing. It keeps money out of the hands of big business and supports someone in your community. But what about people who don&#8217;t want handmade things? They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makingourownluck.com/2011/12/21/buy-handmade-or-ask-for-handmade/</link>
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		<title>Where Have We Been?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[School. And work. Not fun. And not too crafty. In the past three months I had one craft day (with the exception of some beautiful doodles in the margins of my notebooks). Not something I&#8217;m very happy about. I did manage to teach embroidery and origami, spreading the crafting love to new people. I hope [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makingourownluck.com/2011/12/19/where-have-we-been/</link>
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		<title>The Beast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been doing so great on my promise to give only hand made gifts this year, but I did just finish a pretty large birthday present for my Step Dad, Larry.
Brian and I have been working on this painting of his truck for a few months now. It&#8217;s a bit late but it is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makingourownluck.com/2011/08/14/thebeast/</link>
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		<title>Screen Printing Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found some affordable screen in Toronto at Gwartzmans, of course. I attempted the fabric shops downtown and not knowing enough about the material I needed there were really no deals to be found. The staff didn&#8217;t know what I needed, one man tried to sell me tulle, but mostly they were unhelpful.
Gwartzman&#8217;s had a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makingourownluck.com/2011/07/28/screen-printing-update/</link>
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		<title>Tie-dyed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I spent a crafty afternoon learning how to tie-dye with some friends. I didn&#8217;t really know what I was doing, just sort of dipping the shirt into bowls of colour at random. I liked how it turned out enough that I want to do more. An old white tank top that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makingourownluck.com/2011/07/25/tie-dyed/</link>
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		<title>An Apple a Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve turned off our giant heat making TV and have been getting crafty for the summer. Last night Brian decided to give me another chance at learning to shade. Shading is intimidating, and I&#8217;ve tried to learn it in the past only to give up. But Brian is a patient teacher and I think it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makingourownluck.com/2011/07/19/an-apple-a-day/</link>
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		<title>Screen Printing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I picked up a screen printing kit a few months ago. I got a pretty good deal at Gwartzman&#8217;s and had always wanted to try it out. Brian warned me when I bought it,
&#8220;This isn&#8217;t easy. It will take you awhile to get good at it.&#8221;
My crafty confidence got the best of me, I would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makingourownluck.com/2011/07/11/screen-printing/</link>
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