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My Friends, If you were a friend and fan of my blog, Mammi's Photoshop Playpen, I thank you!! Your visits have been truly lovely for me. And the playpen shall always continue. But just not online for awhile. After over 9,ooo hits, Mammi's Photoshop Playpen, I am afraid, will have to go the way of Sunshine Supermama. I am consumed by a new burst of creative energy, in this post-new-year and post

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WELL, I am playing around with commerce, as I mentioned in my last post, and I am curious... Do you like the addition of Amazon links to my book and film review sites?! I will tell you my thoughts so far. First of all, I kind of like them. I like the look and feel of them. I like the real-world feel. Like, This is a site for art and commerce... All still, really, in celebration of art! Second

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IT IS a new development, on my book and film review blogs!! So that you can actually use them, I have provided a handy reference to my book reviews, and also to my film reviews, in the tabs. And you will see, I have posted some fun Amazon links too. But note!! These are still indie-writergirl blogs, I do not work for Amazon!! This is called being an Amazon Associate, whereby I would get the

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WELL, it is a loopy some weeks for me. I am on a muscle relaxer for my jaw. (For my poor locked jaw.) And, ja... It does make you relaxed. If you see me weaving down the sidewalk, it is not that I am drunk. Just, well... I am relaxed! (And a bit dizzy too.) They warned me I could not drive with these drugs. But no one said I couldn't walk! The good thing is, I found a dentist who really knows

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I NEVER SET OUT intending to tell his story. I never set out planning to tell his story. I never set out consumed by telling his story. But, there was a story niggling at me... So. I sat down to write. Ten years later, I saw the story was his. Please visit my website and celebrate with me, this month of October, my October Opa Special... Conflicted characters are the best kind. Why? Because they

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THIS MONTH, I am celebrating one full delicious year on my blog, Mammi's Photoshop Playpen, begun one golden autumn day of September last year. This blog has been an infinite bottomless pleasure for me. A place to share not only my photos, but my writings... My thoughts and reflections and wisdoms (one hopes) on life. I find the older I get, both the less, and more, I have to say!! So. You'd best

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Blogs become cozy companions, friends... For reader and writer alike. There is a song I love... (I have it up on the Youtube, called Seasons in the Sun.) Goodbye to you my trusted friend, begins the lyric. She was that, for me.WELL... It is with a gentle regret that I inform you I am closing one of my longest held blogs, Sunshine Supermama!! (We have had a one-year, two-month run, since June 2010

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Mammi dreams of trying something new. Like the farmers and crafters, streetvending her wares! But unlike the produce that grows in the wind and rain, and the crafters who hunker beneath their tents, books and cards are papergoods that get wet... And Mammi has no tent. IN TRUMAN CAPOTE'S book of early childhood memories, in one story, called A Christmas Memory, his best pal of his whole life, an

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A WARM February greeting to you from this albeit often cold month in this rainy Northwest... Though the sun is blazing brightly now, into my workroom window! And how hypocritical of me would it be, to suddenly up and complain then, that I cannot see my computer screen. So, I shan't. Though misspellings, today then, will have to be the fault of the weather. I must go walking soon! Please visit

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