10:34 p.m. 65 Degrees

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Oh dear. A trip to Scrapbook Oasis in Irvine. A few more things got added to the travel book. Like larger rings. A few green chandeliers courtesy of Hambly screenprint overlays. The variety of scrapbook paper is staggering. Many bad......

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Perfume Factories

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If you lived in Los Angeles you would want to go walking under the moonlight and breathe in the heady night air. The fragrance at night and early morning in the northern part of the city is sweet and strong.......

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Ideas Blossomed in My Brain Stem

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Ideas blossomed in my brain stem and spread upward. Swirling through dense jungly undergrowth. Walking through Tyn's house on Saturday really got the creative engine roaring. I wanted to scatter black inky writing on top of the photos I took.......

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Our House Had A Heart And A Soul

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Our house had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals, and solicitudes, and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace......

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Something Slid Beneath Me

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Moment of Inertia It's what makes the pancake hold still while you slip the spatula under it so fast it doesn't move, my father said standing by the stove. All motion stopped when he died. With his last breath the......

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The Radiant Center

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The garden tending continues. Bit by bit I'm making headway through the tangled den of plants. The winter's rain was very good to the purple crest aeonium. It's hard to look away from that radiant center. The pride of madeira......

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Colin Farrell is a howler

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Not only has actor Colin Farrell waved goodbye to ­alcohol, it turns out he’s also given up some slightly werewolf-like tendencies as well. The Irish star, who used to be best known for his drunken antics, has now been stone-cold......

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The fur flies as Sarah has rant in store

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Girls Aloud’s Sarah ­Harding gave staff at a West End store a good talking to after spotting a fur jacket for sale in the shop. Sarah, 26, revealed her anti-fur stance while out at the Arrogant Cat store in Soho,......

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Latest single

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Australian singer Natalie Imbruglia is certainly making the most of her new life as a singleton. The petite star was seen cosying up to none other than Sam Branson, the 22-year-old model son of multi-­millionaire Richard Branson. The pair joined......

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Book worm...

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Who stopped off after a night of partying to brush up on history and get help filling in the blanks?...

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