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		<title>well, because i needed just one more&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Sketchbook Project&#8217;s sketchbook has arrived! Best part is that it came in time to inspire me at the Los Angeles County Fair where I&#8217;m spending the month among elephants, Fortune Tellers and all things fairgood. I chose the theme revenge. Oh, because it&#8217;s so against my nature. Or is it? Click on the Sketchbook [...]]]></description>
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		<title>books and a surprise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The one on top is my restored Illustrated History circa 1930, bought at an estate sale and a test run for what I&#8217;ll do to revamp the leviathan on the bottom. That gorgeous dictionary has been in my family since the 20s and it&#8217;s one of the reasons I feel almost obligated to use words [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lisamertins.com/?p=1713</link>
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		<title>Tiger panache</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the name of this Tim Burton style fig. You have to see it in all it&#8217;s glory because this photo doesn&#8217;t do it justice! Those insides are positively magenta. And the green and yellow stripes &#8212; YOWZA! Best part is they are as delicious as they are gorgeous. Growing right down the street at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lisamertins.com/?p=1706</link>
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		<title>moon train</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can there be any place on earth with a lovelier full moon? Happy weekend from the hot, far west.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lisamertins.com/?p=1701</link>
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		<title>bookee!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s what I did to scrape the tech off of me&#8230;learned Saturday to make three books in one day with Wendy Poma at UCR. I know I&#8217;m not the only one out there that gets calm when their hands are making. More, with diagrams, when I perfect my technique without a supervisor. Because when I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lisamertins.com/?p=1697</link>
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		<title>lie to me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because after a week of sitting in front of this computer &#8212; sometimes for over 12 hours (for reasons I&#8217;ll spare you from) &#8212; anything other than sweet talk and I swear, I snap&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>pretty bugs and composting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read a great post on my friend Cindy&#8217;s awesome garden blog about the fig beetles missing her fig crop in OC this year due to the unusually cool summer there. So I hunted around for this old illo and, can you guess? I started working on another watercolor since Cindy mentioned I should long, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lisamertins.com/?p=1686</link>
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		<title>another about how the sausage gets made</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Getting ready to print more images, and I was thinking about how Marcy from the other day was happy with the art I donated for the upcoming OC Bloggers Ball. It&#8217;s this one:So, I got to thinking about a series of music related images from my childhood. What you see in the first image is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lisamertins.com/?p=1682</link>
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		<title>this one&#8217;s for marcy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At lunch yesterday, Marcy, a blogger and FIRL, her boys, two 15-year-old&#8217;s and I had a laugh. We talked about this blog and my new Etsy shop among other things. And here&#8217;s where I&#8217;ll pause and say BIG THANKS to all the kind words of encouragement and feedback I&#8217;ve gotten here, on Facebook and in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lisamertins.com/?p=1672</link>
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		<title>without further lollygag&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SHOP! Finally. Look to the right. See the hastily scrawled &#8220;shop?&#8221; I meant to do that&#8230; Now I&#8217;ll get bossy and say click it! More later but now I&#8217;m pooped.]]></description>
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