Tag: Local Love
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Love Living Local
So my to-do list threw up all over my organized dry erase board, a Jackson Pollock of color-coded tasks. And I haven’t gotten much done. Staying focused at home is tough. Season 7 of The Vampire Diaries beckons. I need to write this blog post among others and work on my side hustle. My dog,…
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Favorite Handmade Item – Amanda Biggs
So, that beautiful young lady over there on the left might look familiar to some of you. Perhaps she’s taught your daughter or son how to belt out Hallelujah, or maybe you saw her in Cardinal Stage’s Les Mis last year. Maybe you see her walking around town with her beautiful family in town, Maxwell…
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Maker Monday – Beast USA
Welcome again to Maker Monday!!! This Monday I’m introducing Patrick from Beast USA! I found Patrick while perusing the list of vendors at Renegade Craft Fair Chicago before we first opened, and fell in Love with his designs! Once a primarily t-shirt maker, we now carry Beast USA cards – and they’re some of our…
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Tales from a Shopkeep
Oh what a week!! Students are gone and we can start to breathe townie-life back into our beings . . . or can we? The older I get, the longer I live in this town, the less the students become a part of it. . . Interesting that. So, this week we spent getting ready…
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Tales from a Shopkeep
This past week absolutely flew by – I can’t believe seven days has actually passed since the last time (the first time) I wrote one of these. But, it has. And the week we’re coming into will be lazy and filled with family, and so I’m excited to share with you what the week before…
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