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Flower bun tutorial

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Sara Smith I know you wrap the hair around the chopstick, twist it clockwise so that it makes a tight knot, pull the chopstick out slightly and then stick it back through all the hair. I'm not sure what step 8 is.

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Jennifer J Looks easy, but in practice, it's like "what?!" Cute look, though

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Jenn Billings My hair is almost down to my butt and I wonder if its too long to do this...

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LongLocks Boutique Okay, just tried this with one of my LongLocks sticks. In step 4, after she wraps the hair around the stick again she's rotating it clockwise about a quarter turn. In step 5 she then levers it up to the left top of her head. Then she takes the stick out AND tucks the remaining ponytail into the little tunnel created at the right, puts the stick in the tunnel after tucking the ponytail, pulls it down to 3 o'clock and pushes the hair stick through all the hair to hold it. My hair is hip length and I was able to do this easily. The trick is to wrap the hair around the stick more times if it is really long (and I would use two sticks to secure your long locks).

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Heart garland

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Lisa Greaves Very cool. It took me forever to realize that the first stapled strips become the top of the first heart. Very clever.

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Jodi Ryznar @Rosanna

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Kristin Riding Thanks for the wonderful board Jenny - I'm going to be trying a bunch of these out with my daughter too. We made these awesome hearts tonight - what a fun little activity!

family tree!

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Amanda Lamb @Laura Stuckey I could see you doing this!

wendy gold globes

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Paper flowers

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Shadow puppets.

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Sara Rylander You guys are weird. First thing I thought was HOOOOOOOOOOO!

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Beth Delagrange-Helderman Nope. Thundercats here too.

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Sara Rylander No one remembers the Lionel saying, "Thundercats--HOOOOOOOO!" Anyone? Gah.

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Sarah Darby Sara, I got it! :)

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Sara Mancini Definitely first thought was Lion-O, "ThunderCats, HO!"

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Camp Mom! Activities to Make Summer Awesome for Everyone. I like that a lot of these activities involve the kids working together.

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Bridget McArthur At the end of every kids Bday I hosted, I had the kids play sit on the balloon game. They had a blast popping the balloons and then all we had to do was sweep up

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Emily Kittelson @Bridget My mom had the sit on the balloon game at one of my birthday parties. I was the first one to play as I was the birthday girl. When it popped I screamed and ran crying to my bedroom. (But now I work at a booth for the Renaissance Festival where Balloons are popped all the time, sometimes while I am blowing them up, so at least I wasn't scarred for life)

i heart u card (try using a box cutter type knife to score the lines)

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valentine's mobile

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Paper flower tutorial.

from Flickr

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Jenn Kolovos My husband and I are huge fans of your blog and he found this entry on your Good Mom/Bad Mom blog. He actually made these for me and our daughter. You've inspired my husband to be crafty! You are AMAZING! Thanks!

Champagne Chairs how-to

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Sherry Simmons These are a great way to remember special times!

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Stephanie Marlin I now have a good excuse to buy Champagne!

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Susan Midlarsky Heck, some beer bottles come with these too. :-)

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Molly So clever!

Sock Bunny ^Holy crap that's cute! (The link is in Chinese, but the pictures are clear enough that words aren't needed.)

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Rachael H This is from a book called Stray Sock Sewing, which is definitely in English and explains all the stitches so someone who's never sewn a thing in their life could do it. And there are SO MANY OTHER sock creatures you can make, all equally adorable. I recommend the elephant.

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Corinne Lowe If you open it through Google Chrome, you'll get an option across the top of the screen to have Google translate it. The translations aren't always perfect, but help fill in details for the times the photos don't cover it all.

glue the buttons to a balloon & when the glue dries pop the balloon to make a button bowl.

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Lizz Gunn My friend tried this... and it totally did not work. She documented it here: http://pintershit.blogspot....

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Sarah Darby Lizz her blog is hilarious and I'm going to follow it. As for the actual pin? Use something that will bond the buttons together not stick them to a film. So, no white or puzzle glue.

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Della Dreher According to commenter http://www.blogger.com/prof..., "My kids and I did this! Believe it or not we used Elmer's School Glue!! It dries clear. First we applied a VERY THIN layer to the balloon, stuck the buttons on the balloon, and allowed it to dry overnight. Then I took a sponge brush and applied an outer coat of glue to the buttons while still on the balloon. Allowed it to dry for 24 hours and then released the air from the balloon. Very fun to do with the kids :-) ENJOY!"

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Lizz Gunn Oooh interesting, I'll show her that: @Heather Wiegraffe

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Mandi Gregory-Thompson I am finding that a lot of pins are a bunch of bunk. I started a blog about trying out pins, and definitely have some fails.

sail boat dresser

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Jamie @ Scissors & Steam Damn. I saw a ratty dresser at a Goodwill yesterday that I could've painted like this. Sure it's gone now... oh well.

spoon puppets

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cork mice

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LMSharamitaro So the part you should do is drink more champagne. Mimosas for everyone!

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Bridget Mullin I'm reading The Tale of Despereaux to my boys. This will be a great way to end it. We can make swords too.... Awww...my favorite children's book. I've got the voices down!

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Janet Buckingham These are truly great.

Crayon heart wall art -arrange in a heart and melt crayons with a blow dryer (there will be lots of splatter fyi).. add a picture in the middle to use it as a frame

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Sarah Fowler @HannahJoy Fowler

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Wendy Bartlett ok i soooo wanna do this!

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Sherri Molloy a heat gun (paint stripper) at a low setting will melt crayons beautifully with FAR less splatter and much more control over where the wax runs and how much is melted

ABC Handprints!

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Tracy Schraven I love this!!

Outlines of famous works of art for kids to color.

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Brooke Clay I painted this once, sort of. Well, I attempted it at Wine and Canvas. It's like kindergarten.. with wine.

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Amy R @ Brooke, that sounds AWESOME

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Kelly Barone @ Brooke...OMG I wanna go someplace that is like kindergarten with wine!

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Sherry Simmons Great way to pay tribute to famous artists!

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Tiffany Just printed one for my almost 4 yo daughter. She LOVES colouring!

Bears.

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Stephanie Abrahams I think my favorite part of this is that you posted it on stuff you should do with your kid.

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Jenni Dinsdale ha ha ha ha

Fun to chase. Not fun to be caught by. I speak from experience.

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Jennifer Klima I am so jealous. I have wanted to chase storms my entire life. It is on my bucket list.

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Jackie Gaston I can do without the. I'm sure you saw plenty in WTX.

Quick fix for the scuffed toes of my daughters boots. Mix glitter & glue, paint on. Let dry, reapply. Might not last forever, but will stretch the life of the boots a little bit. jcn

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Sally Patterson Plus the toes are sparkly :D

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Caroline Pollock I'm 30, and I'm doing this to the next set of shoes I scuff up.

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Susan & Janice (5 Minutes For Mom) Clever and cute. ~Susan

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UrbanMommies Adorable.

Thimble Necklace Tutorial

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Jill I made 10 or so of something like this for my 7yo's birthday party out of clothes hangers & old kids' tights. I cut off the legs to use for the wing-covers, then the extra part I sewed over the join to make it soft. Attached big elastic loops to put their arms through & ta-da! Fairy Wings!!!! (Then we used glitter paint to make them fancy.)

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Amanda R Geyer youhad me at glitter paint!!!!

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Erica Olivier nuh-UH!!!! Now I'm going to need to clear space in the garden for a whole horde of radishes! I'll bet these can be made into turtles, too...which I could throw at my husband to slow him down...and that is why gardening is great.

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Elske You can also make something similar but bigger by cutting the top and bottom of a boiled and peeled egg, placing it on a plate in the midst of something green and then putting half a tomato on top of the egg that you put little dots of mayonese on. It won't have the awesome eyes but I'm sure you could make that happen.

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Margot / Gocha Pity that my daughter does not like radishes...

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Laura Dodd If you have this much time.....

pennies are also good in the garden for repelling slugs and making hydrangeas blue. who knew?

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Joni BearNekkid I need to do this for my hydrangeas

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Amy Berger Haha Ditto Keri!

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Beth Scanlon so long as they're not 'rappelling slugs'. those guys are assholes.

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Hannah Stern Put out paint can lids full of cheap beer... You'll kill all the slugs, AND the beer has good sugars for plants. Plus, now you don't have to glue pennies to a ball for hours.

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Julie Woods Are those glued to a bowling ball? Cool. Some of my neighbors use bowling balls in their gardens so I should totally tell them about the pennies. Also, I live in a weird neighborhood.

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Cute teacher gift - rolos and hershey kisses

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Such a sweet idea!

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Christmas Jokes to put in your kids' lunchboxes

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Betsey Engel This seems very tame for you.

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Sarah Parsons Just printed them out. I think I'm going to glue them to notecards, so they're sturdier than printer paper. If I'd planned ahead, I could have bought card stock to print on. But, I don't plan ahead, lol.

Coffee Filter Snowflakes/Great craft idea for the kids to send to the troops!

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Julie Elder Coffee filters are PERFECT for snowflakes! I first used them when I got a new coffee pot that used the cone kind and had 100 or so of the round left over. They're hard to rip and look great in the window...

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Allison Dailey We did these this afternoon; awesome and inexpensive!

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Danika Carter @ Your Organic Life Great idea. My daughter found paper too thick to cut through. This would work much better...and she won't take all my computer paper.

Ahh this is crazy! Trace the hand in pencil. With a marker, draw a straight line until you get to the hand. Then make a curve from one line to the next, then continue the straight line.

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this is exactly how Doctor Who works...

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~Fixing tangled doll hair...this looks like every doll I ever had...ratty hair in no time flat!

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Jay Beez need to remember this one...

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Beloved awesome!

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JD I saw the mussed-up hair and spread legs and DID NOT think this was about untangling doll hair. This is where my mind is when reading your pins, Jenny.

Sharpies and Rubbing Alcohol. Cooler than tie dye

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Michelle Crist I did this, and my rude ass lil niece said "no comment" when I asked her if she liked her shirt! pfft!

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Courtney Imhoff we just did this this weekend and my nieces loved it! We are planning a red/green only version at Christmas time! MIne turned out vaguely pornographic, since I put two cups right where my boobs are. They look like tie dyed boobs with nipples. Very classy.

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Sarah Bouchard I tried this before too... The colours start to fade with washing, though!

to build a tent like this

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Lynette Ledbetter these were the good ole' days.

The truth about Santa, as written by Martha Brockenbrough (who is a great writer, BTW) - this letter is inspiring. Don't want to forget this when the time comes!

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Stacey Smith I so wish I'd been this smart a few years ago.

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Amanda J. Grant {The Martha Initiative} And now I'm crying at work. Damn you, @Jennifer Lawson! ;)

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Susan & Janice (5 Minutes For Mom) Amazing. I hope I can find this when I need it... I've re-pinned it. Thank you. ~susan

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Jenifer Purdy Beautiful. Wish I had seen this when my first daughter asked that dreaded question. I will certainly use it when the other does, hopefully a long time from now. :)

It's a long exposure shot with sparklers :) All they had to do was stand there very still and someone else ran around them with a sparkler. it's like a fairy tale!

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Trina WalkingwithScissors Plus you can see the ghosty faces of the people who had the sparklers. It's like a wedding AND an episode of the ghost whisperer all in one! Either that or these

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Trina WalkingwithScissors people are haunted...

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Erica Olivier I remember seeing that in Disney's Cinderella when her dress changed from all tore-up to magically delicious!

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Melody Stewart It looks like they're wrapped in an angel...

Chocolate Oatmeal No Bake Cookies

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Sarah Thompson They're awesome, actually--and so easy, my 8yo was able to help me make them. I had regular oats (not quick-cooking), so they were a little on the chewy side, but still wonderful. Just like mom used to make!

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Becky Matthews We call them doo-doo cookies...because, well, they look like doo-doo....but they taste so good!

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Rixie Dotson My favorite name that I have heard for these is "goat drop cookies" The new "no bake" title just sounds so unadventurous.

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Colleen Walsh this was my favorite christmas cookie. I suggest eating these while they are warm. They look like poo but taste like heaven!

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Jenifer Purdy OMG, my grandmother used to make these! I haven't had them in decades!!! Thanks for pinning!

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What a sweet idea...take pictures of daughters in your wedding dress for them to use on their wedding day.

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la_florecita This kind of creeps me out.

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Jessica Martin Now, if she were wearing your wedding day lingerie, THAT would be creepy.

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Dawn Knudtson My wedding day was a celebration of shared dreams, hope, strength, and goals for a happy life, NOT a transfer or giving up of power, or sexual ownership. I think it's a cute way to reflect the important things in your life.

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Patricia Stilwell Wow ... who knew such a sweet photo op would set us all back 60 years. And @David, great use of the word "fucktards". I'm a fan of unique compound words myself :D Now off to grab my 4 yr old and my wedding dress and scar her emotionally :P

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LA K I ♥ pinterest controversy! Thanks guys!

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leaf crown

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Forget Hailey. I want this for my room.

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Q-tip & Popsicle stick bow and arrow tutorial. AWESOME!!

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Oh yes, I'll be now on the hunt for old trays and painting them with chalkboard paint

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Maggie McGary Or you could buy this at Target like I did today! http://www.target.com/...

Poke light into a canvas. Great sensory wall

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Erica Olivier Back in MY day (and yours, too), we called that "Lite Brite".

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Christina Betterley something I always wanted to do to my room in my teens, take a black sheet & punch holes through like this then cover my ceiling.. My grandmother would never let me do so, she was afraid of the hot bulb setting the sheet on fire..Obviously it wouldn't be pulled tight to where it was touching the bulb, but she didn't quite get the concept lol

halloween costume!

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L Carstens Ha! Awesome!

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Sarah Holcombe Love this!!!

What a great and inexpensive way to make a theater "stand"

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I PinStuff a tension curtain rod would be good too...then you could mount it anywhere w/ no marks.

Vintage Coloring Pages. New one added every weekend.

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jet pack!

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Suzanne Yancey Oh my lanta!!!! My kids would LOVE this!

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Reneesance awesomely smart. :)

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Tanya Morrison This is really cool!

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Kath Youell Heck with the kids, I want to make this for my husband.

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