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	<title>Island Mama</title>
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	<description>Life on an island with three small boys</description>
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		<title>Pear Blossom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spring is truly here. This was a few days ago &#8212; there are so many more blossoms open now on this tree, and others are joining in.

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		<link>http://www.blether.org/2010/03/05/pear-blossom/</link>
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		<title>Celebrate the BOY!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s always lots of ideas, patterns and tutorials around the web for things to make for little girls. So this month, as a crafting mother of three boys, I&#8217;ve been really enjoying Celebrate the BOY! month by MADE and Made by Rae.
I don&#8217;t have nearly as much time to sew as I&#8217;d like, and it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blether.org/2010/02/23/celebrate-the-boy/</link>
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		<title>Spring Bulbs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crocuses are flowering.

Garlic is coming up.

We planted three kinds this year, some is further ahead than others.

We are still using last year&#8217;s garlic, and we haven&#8217;t even touched the softneck ones I braided yet. It&#8217;s not going to last &#8217;til July, when we harvest this, though. Hopefully this year we&#8217;ve planted enough to last a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blether.org/2010/01/31/spring-bulbs/</link>
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		<title>Trains and Cameras</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday we went to Seattle for a Flickr meetup. The boys, of course, brought their cameras too.  We lost the crowd pretty quickly, but spent a while hanging out on the bridge Eric designed back in his engineering days, which is conveniently located over the train tracks. 
Boys love train tracks. 
Timothy checking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blether.org/2010/01/31/trains-and-cameras/</link>
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		<title>Wool Pants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve made Nathaniel a few pairs of wool pants from the sleeves of thrift store sweaters, but I think these new ones are perhaps my favorites. 

I had found a nice soft J. Crew sweater, and it felted up really nicely, but it had holes in the elbows. The elbows make the bum of baby [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blether.org/2010/01/18/wool-pants/</link>
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		<title>Fire and Painted Rocks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s January, yes. It&#8217;s winter, yes. 
But it&#8217;s mild, and it feels like so much spring, and we all needed to spend some time outside. We worked hard this morning, gathering branches and transporting them (in the truck, the boys love that part!) to the other end of the yard. I even managed to resist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blether.org/2010/01/18/fire-and-painted-rocks/</link>
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		<title>Christmas Tree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rather belatedly, pictures of our tree this year. 
(I&#8217;m trying to catch up, and trying not to allow the fact that I have all these outdated but unposted posts stop me from posting at all.)



In the field, it looked big, but not huge. We cut it off a good 4&#8242; from the bottom.



It was still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blether.org/2010/01/11/christmas-tree-2/</link>
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		<title>Ice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve had some really cold weather during the last month or two, and we made an interesting discovery: when it gets really really cold, like stays-below-freezing-for-many-days sort of cold, all those yogurt containers the kids left outside had filled with rainwater and frozen, from the top down, in a really fascinating pattern. 



When you find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blether.org/2010/01/04/ice/</link>
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		<title>Winter Walk at the Beach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today seemed like the perfect day for a walk on the beach &#8212; mild, gray, but not raining; tide on its way out.



Perfect time to explore some of the amazing driftwood structures people build here.









This one was shaped like an igloo, complete with entrance tunnel. 



The kids could fit inside, but we couldn&#8217;t. Once they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blether.org/2010/01/03/winter-walk-at-the-beach/</link>
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		<title>Wool Slippers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made myself a pair of wool slippers last winter, using an old sweater I felted. They have been so warm and comfy and I&#8217;ve worn them every day this winter, that I decided it was time to make some for my kids.
These are for Timothy, age 2:

All the materials came from the thrift store: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blether.org/2009/02/12/wool-slippers/</link>
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