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You can learn to make your own Sock Monkey at Mary Sweeney’s Felted Heart Studio
March 15th
Monday 3:30pm – 5:30pm
Instructor: Mary Sweeney
Cost: $50
All supplies included.
Contact Mary Sweeney at mary@feltedheart.com or call 678.559.4977.

But be very careful. Things can get out of hand…..

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I realized at 50 that not only am I an entrepreneur but I am and have always been an Artist. My website graphic design business is the fourth successful business I have had in my life: PH.D. Clinical Psychologist, CEO of medical records software company, Loft Real Estate Designer and Developer and now, New Tricks [...]

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My daughter’s best friend, Jessica Murphy is now working for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and has arranged a fundraiser this Monday September 14th at Wahoo. Enjoy farm to table dining while supporting blood cancer research and patient services. Tell your server you wish to donate 10% of your bill to LLS. Reservations are available for parties of 5 or more. Come on and join us there.

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Grant finally went and took the plunge. Over at New Tricks we have been helping Grant with a blog website design for his Grant Henry AKa Sister Louisa website the past several months. The problem is that we have been doing it in drips and drabs, which I don’t recommend. Much easier to get it all done in a week or so so you don’t forget where you were in the process. Anyway, I am very happy that this artist, philosopher, bartender and friend finally started posting. I know he hasn’t even gotten warmed up yet. He called his debut a “flabby” opening, so when he really rolls it out it will be something to behold. Grant’s post that he originally posted in Hollis Gillespie’s Creative Loafing column about why he is the happiest man alive is very moving. You have to read it since it shows the other side of the “Out There” Grant.

When I was blogging here a lot, before New Tricks started sapping all my blogging energy, Grant’s comments on my blog were the best thing going. I really looked forward to his whacked out view of things being that he is one of the funniest people I know and respect. Once I wrote a post about a lifesize artists model that my sister’s husband John named Eileen – because she did. Within an hour Grant sent me a full portfolio of photos of a male life size artist model, Lucious Lamar, in lewd poses. It was and is hilarious.

One of Grant’s many and main claims to fame is his Sister Louisa art. He collects religious paint by numbers and then paints his wisdom and creative insanity on them. As a former Catholic school girl, I really get this. Check it out and check out his blog. Yea, Grant, you have “Catapulted yourself into Greatness” !

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I know it is bad when there are two weekly Twitter post updates and no actual posts for the past two weeks. There have been a lot of things going on this month at 130 Krog Street. The Urban Oasis has been busy with guests from The living Foods Institute’s two week raw foods program, [...]

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This falls in the category of a very cool new trick. Sometimes something comes along that truly makes one’s life easier. I know there are always new technologies coming down the pike but how many times do you get something and you can barely understand how to use a tenth of it? So now I am here to share with you what might be one of your most used devices of the year. Introducing Eye-Fi. This is a little orange 4 gig memory card that goes into your camera to replace your old one and then it is magic. You go stand within ten feet of your computer and depending on which level you get it will 1) upload all of the photos on it to your computer, or 2) your computer and a website (like Flickr) or 3) your photos and movies to your computer and a website. Now how is that for a dream answered?

I have been telling our City Councilman, Kwanza Hall that he needs to stop taking pictures with his Blackberry because they are all blurry. Kwanza is active on Facebook and Twitter and is all over Atlanta. He posts lots of fuzzy photos that cause you to squint and wonder if you are going blind. I asked him about it and he said that he can’t use his little camera because the memory card is always full. He explained that being on the run he forgets to go through the tedious process to unload his photos. Now I have just solved his problem. All of Atlanta will be thanking me for getting him squared away with this little piece of new technology. Chalk this one up to a New Trick that is going to make us all really happy.

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You know how it is when you get to a certain age in life and have changed social circles a couple of time? You use to be involved with your kids and their friends and their friend’s parents, or you moved away or you’ve changed jobs or you have gone freelance…most likely you have lost touch with people that you enjoyed in your life. I know I have. But recently I found one great way to connect with all of my old buddies from

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I was going to write about this last year. But I decided that I would be a grown up and let it be. But then damn if we didn’t have the same problems come up all over again this year. Every thanksgiving and Christmas I think we have got the blended family holiday thing handled [...]

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What I want to know is why is my dog shedding like crazy the week before Christmas? Is this a side effect of global warming? There are huge puff balls of hair floating around the house two hours after vacuuming. At least only one of the three Bassets is such a fur burger.

This afternoon in preparation for the holidays, I decided to get out the Furminator. I was wearing black fleece pants and a fleece vest and I have to say that was not the best furminating outfit. Like the picture portrays, I filled up an entire garbage bag with dog hair but I had been sitting on the ground so when I got up I was covered in hair. Not just a little hair but more like a heavy layer of fur all over my clothes. Duane had to vacuum me off before I could put my clothes in the washer. I have vacuumed the dog before but I have yet to put him in the washer.

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