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Generation Now's First Round of Commissions

Motherhood Moments

Through live-drawing, digital projection and a frame-by-frame view of what it’s like to develop comic strip art, the play delves into the ways in which graphic art can help us not only to capture what our lives are like, but who we are meant to be. “Ma-Yi It counters dangerous stereotypes that limit potential and diminish self-esteem.

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30 Free but Thoughtful Christmas Gift Ideas

Family Balance Sheet

This sweet little candy dish was a gift from my grandmother. I realize not everyone has family heirlooms to give away, but my grandmother was downsizing and gifted her grandchildren pieces from her Fostoria Glass collection that were my grandparents’ wedding gifts back in 1945. My great-grandmother made a lot of her gifts.

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Free & Cheap Kindle Books: First Frost & More

For the Mommas

Seventeen-year-old Bianca Frost wants none of it, dreaming instead of a career in art or photography or…well, anything except working in the family’s museum. She knows the items in the glass display cases are fakes because, of course, magic doesn’t really exist. 90+ Tastefully Simple Recipes Volume 1: (Free at time of posting).

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It's All in the Statement

The Bargain Hunter Extraordinaire

They give style and grace to a simple pair of jeans and a tee; they dress up a LBD; they even turn an old sweatshirt into a piece of art. I created this necklace by taking my grandmother's vintage silver chains and my own beaded silver necklaces; and combining them one over the other. It is amazing what a little creativity can do.

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

Splurges: Shoes, books and art supplies. And art supplies: I like to paint and draw, so every now and then I splash out. Hmmm, probably some art supplies to finish a project I’m working on, then any clothes my kids needed, or household things we need, and put the rest in savings. What’s one thing you splurge on?

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Free eBooks: Delectable Desserts, Homemade Christmas, The Simple Joy of Christmas, and More!

Couponing 101

Little did nine year-old Holly know that her Grandmother would tell a story that would sweep her back in time to a special Christmas during the Great Depression when her Grandmother, Eleanor Jo, was a little girl. Inventing combines art, creativity and thinking. Most students hate math and science but love inventing.

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Homespun Alchemy™. In the Kitchen

Frugal Luxuries

Little did I realize that doing so was to shift the paradigm of my long held belief that it was my grandmother who was responsible for all of the usual. Are you practicing the art of fermentation? being the son of a Swedish/American mother and a long ~ time foodie himself.is and unusua l. food preparation during his boyhood.

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