tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18598450273475463342024-03-18T21:00:53.224-07:00Down in the DeltaJudy Pimperlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984279214339905594noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859845027347546334.post-27873600715694629872017-06-25T09:56:00.001-07:002017-06-25T09:56:54.510-07:00Our Little Cabin in the Woods-Part Two<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do you remember last year when we painted our big house? Just in case you missed it, here's a picture of the front entry area. It shows all of the colors we used.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's a picture showing the garden shed behind the house, where we used the matching color scheme, once again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, we absolutely LOVE everything about that Sherwin-Williams paint and those colors, so we decided to use the same exact color scheme on the cabin, and all future cabins. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The exterior walls are Sherwin-Williams Majolica Green. Porch ceiling is Swimming, in keeping with the southern tradition to paint porch ceilings blue...(There's a story there! Read about it <a href="https://www.sherwin-williams.com/home-builders/color/color-education/sw-article-pro-thewhysbehind">here</a>.) We trimmed it in white and finished it off with my favorite part, the bright turquoise (actually, Gulfstream) door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The paint part of this project was the easiest part. Why? Basically, because we have the best Sherwin-Williams in the world, right here close by, in Spanish Fort, Alabama. Did</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> you know that they keep up with all of your paint project details in their computer? When I go in for paint for the next cabin, I can just tell them it's for the cabin exterior, or whatever, and they can easily find it, because they keep notes for every paint mixed! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stacy Burgos helped me the first time I visited, and I was so impressed with the level of service she offered-it was second to none. And, you know what? She even took my paint to the car for me after it was all mixed! What other paint store does that? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then, as we talked and they found out we would be building a "village" of matching cabins, the manager, Tommy Duncan, offered me a nice discount. I really appreciate the help, as those dollars added up on this little cabin, and wherever we can save, it really makes a difference. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a way to show my appreciation for their help, I had a sign made for the front yard of the cabin during our last vintage and antiques market. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now that this one is finished (it took long enough!) we're already thinking about the second one! Hopefully, the next one will go a little more smoothly and faster. (It was not easy retrofitting and trying to work with a building that was already partially built...lots of things didn't work out for our plans for the building, so things needed to be moved around, and that took lots of time) One thing is already figured out-the paint from our local Sherwin-Williams. Stacy and Tommy, I'll be seeing you again soon!! Thank you for your help and great service!</span></div>
Judy Pimperlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984279214339905594noreply@blogger.com248738A US-31, Bay Minette, AL 36507, USA30.933519387863 -87.68111228942871130.919900387863002 -87.7012822894287 30.947138387863 -87.660942289428718tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859845027347546334.post-35969452676612548372017-05-25T11:52:00.001-07:002017-05-25T11:52:32.405-07:00Our Little Cabin in the Woods-Part One<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you haven't been holding your breath waiting for us to finish the cabin! Like most everything we try to tackle these days, it has taken about three times as long as it should have...and we're still not <i>totally </i>finished, but I'm going to share it anyway, because we're just sooo close to being finished, and I can't wait any longer!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we purchased the land next door, this structure was already there. The 16' x 24' building was built on sight. It has a front porch and a gambrel style roof which allows space for two sleeping lofts inside, one in front and the other in the back. It was covered in white vinyl siding on the sides and back, but had cedar on the exterior of the front wall, inside the porch. The inside was unfinished, but had a small wood stove and a window unit air conditioner in the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the exterior, we removed the vinyl siding (I forgot to take a "before" pic with the vinyl siding.) but here's what it looked like after it was taken down. See the door leaning up against the back wall? We added that so that we would have a back entry. We also removed the window unit air conditioner that was in the wall...you can see where the hole was filled in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Front porch area is now trimmed in cedar to match the front cedar wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Color scheme that we chose to use is the same as what we used on our house last spring...more about that in the next blog post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We needed to add new air conditioning, as we had removed the old window unit, so we went with a ductless system by Samsung, and we love it! It works by remote control, and keeps the place at a constant temperature, even automatically switching from a/c to heat, when needed. It's also energy efficient. (Samsung did not give us anything for mentioning this product.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also needed to connect it to the septic tank so that we could add a bathroom. That required ditch-digging. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...then the metal ceiling! I was so excited about using corrulated metal on the <i>inside</i>, and I do love it as much as I thought I would! Oh, and see the black wall up on the end of the loft? That's chalkboard paint! Just imagine camping out and playing tic-tac-toe up there while you're supposed to be sleeping! I plan to add some funky picture frames to the wall so that kids can create their own wall art within the frames...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's all I'll share today...this post is taking me three times as long as it should, too! I only have about a thousand pictures to look through after four months of working on the place! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wow! What a week...there was so much anticipation and excitement leading up to the big Vintage Market Days event. When set-up day finally arrived, vendors flew in like a tornado...and created a wonderland of vintage and antiques treasures. On opening day, the shoppers crowded into The Grounds of Mobile in huge droves and shopped. After three days, just as quickly as it all came together, it was over, and all of us in our sweaty glory tore it all apart and went home... already planning the next one. I now know how it must have felt for the carnies and circus performers who traveled around from city to city in days gone by. (I would have been the Gypsy Fortune Teller!) It was a good kind of tired.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, I've already given you a hint at what my little shop looked like. Did you catch it? If you know me or have followed me much at all, you know I'm fascinated with all things "gypsy" and that's just naturally the theme that I pull together...It started with my banners that would show my logo and business name, but with markets that are away from home, it becomes "The Traveling Show." The large banner that was on the back wall right in the center featured a gypsy lady setting up housekeeping under a tree. She was putting out her washtubs and a bird in a cage. I design my signs to go with what I'm selling, and in this case it was a pair of ninety-year-old chairs with their original berry colored fabric. To pull it all together and tell a story, I bordered the banner with that same berry color. To complete the vignette, I added the bird cage on a stand, wash bucket, basket, and a broom, among some other things...greenery was then draped over the top to give the appearance of the tree under which the vardo was parked. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To continue the gypsy theme, the front table centerpiece was another banner with a dancing gypsy girl, playing a tambourine. I had a tambourine that I had purchased years ago on Beale Street in Memphis, and it had developed a hole and was pretty tattered. I remembered a song about a hole in a tambourine, so I used a line from that on the banner with the girl to tell that story. Although the table of merchandise did get picked apart and purchased, the star of the day was the actual banner. I couldn't believe that people wanted the banner! So, I sold it, along with the tambourine....then I took orders for more. Funny thing though is that everyone wanted me to find them a tambourine with a hole in it to go with their banners! You just never know what's going to sell at these events. Oh, the large one on the back wall sold, too! And that buyer is wanting me to make more....so, maybe that'll be my "thing"...those banners. I think I'll make more (three, or four....or five!) for the next event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I said, the table of "gypsy goodies" was picked over the first day, so I had to pull together another vignette early Saturday morning so that it would be fresh and pretty for the second day shoppers. This next pic is what the same table looked like the next morning. It's still filled with things that gypsies would have had in the vardo, but these items could have just as well been found in any farmhouse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Directly behind this vignette was the youth bed which got lots of attention, but no buyer. It's a great piece with lots of details and folds up to travel or store away when not in use. I filled it with hay (because it was the first day of fall!) and then added an assortment of pumpkins and treasures...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the foot of the little bed, I had a turquoise blue chest with original chippy paint. On top of that, I added two tiny chairs-a white chippy one and a stained wood rocker. Oh, and I had to put some candy down at kid level!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, there was more-ironstone, t-shirts, and some other pretty gypsy style things...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's part one of the two-part VMD recap. Tomorrow I'll share with you the bigger picture, more about the entire experience. Hope you'll check back for that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm happy to report that the pretty entrance to the venue, Pimperl Place, is being built! It looks like a small project, but in reality, it takes a lot of coordination between contractors and time to actually make it happen. Just to refresh your memory...here's a picture of what I wanted the gate to look like. I used a picture of a gate that I found online to get the basic shape and then I overlaid that picture with my Down in the Delta logo, minus the words. This is very similar to what we will actually have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first contractor would be the concrete man, followed by the stone mason. In our case, I luckily found one man who does both, which is unusual! That saved us a little time and headache, plus he turned out to be really good at both. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you live in Baldwin or Mobile County and need concrete or stone work, Kenneth Gaines is the man to call.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What slowed the project start was the rain. We've had so much rain over the last couple of months, that it threw Kenney behind on his jobs that were scheduled before ours. The rain finally let up a week or so ago and he got caught up, so he was ready to work our job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Up above, you can see how we took the palette of stone apart so that we could lay it out to easily see the shapes of each piece. My husband put them out on a long goose-neck trailer. Kenny and his son are hard at work in the next picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This picture was taken from the driver's seat of my car as I came into the driveway. You can see the existing old gate in front of my car, and the two newly finished columns set back from that. We are going to reposition the road a bit, which is why it looks off center with the columns. Also, you are probably wondering why the new gate is so far back from the old one. We own the property all the way up to the existing gate, but the power company has an easement that extends twenty-five feet back, so we just decided to move the location of the entrance back to that line so that they don't have to come and get us every time they want to come down the easement to trim trees. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This weekend, hubby and I will be ditch-digging and running the electrical service needed to operate the gate, lights, etc. Then the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">gate contractor is supposed to come out on Tuesday to get "field measurements" so that the gate is built to fit perfectly. While that's going on, the</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> tree removal experts will show up to take out some trees that are on the new fence line. Hubby normally cuts down our trees, but these are so close to the power lines out on the highway that we decided it would be better to hire someone who has a bucket truck to do it. Once the trees are down, the fence contractor can then come in and put up the fence that will run parallel to the highway. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems like we've been waiting months to get this project started, so you can only imagine how happy I am to see it finally coming together. </span></div>
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The leading news story this morning was about the death of Harper Lee. Even though she wasn't big on the celeb thing and doing interviews, it was special just knowing she was there in Monroeville, right up the road a bit...it's going to be different now. What she did for humanity, the lessons she taught us, in that one little book was---is---so BIG. May she rest in peace.</h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">each </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 1.4;">year, in April, right here in my own back yard...so I wanted to share</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each year, Alabama Southern Community College hosts <b>The Alabama</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 1.4;">book, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 1.4;"><b>To Kill a Mockingbird. </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 1.4;"> It's unlike any event I've ever attended. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...then moves inside to the courtroom where it continues. It is so "real"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that you will get goosebumps, and that's a promise. I encourage anyone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">who can make the trip to go, and plan to stay the entire weekend. It is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">even worth a drive across the country! Just go see...You will be glad</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, let me tell you a little bit about my experience there a few years</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ago. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I once co-owned an art gallery, Best Friends Gallery (Same story</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with the "missing" apostrophe...it was meant to be a gathering place</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for new best friends, and about friendship, not about ownership at all...),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">located in Bay Minette. Anyway, the art director of the college, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Susan Brown, visited our gallery one Saturday, and asked if we would</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">like to be the featured gallery at the art show that was a part of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the Writers Symposium each year. Well, of course we did! It was an</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">experience that I will never forget, and I loved every minute of it. I met</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">some well known writers, such as Winston Groom, Watt Key, Tom Franklin,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mark Childress, and William Cobb (even had breakfast at the table with Mr.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cobb in our motel lobby!), and purchased autographed books...We attended</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">many wonderful events during the weekend, were treated like royalty during</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">our entire stay...and, we gained a new friend in Susan! We absolutely</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">loved showing the work of our artists, and were so proud of the collection</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of work that we were able to bring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I actually purchased the cows above...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">memory lane. I think looking back on it, I'm even more proud of it now than</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was then. We have some extremely talented artists and writers, right</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">here in Alabama! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And, here are more pictures of the inside of the courthouse, which is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">now a museum dedicated to the book, <b>To Kill a Mockingbird</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It hangs in my house as a reminder of "Mockingbird" and Monroeville. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today I'm sharing some very special jewelry, created by a very special lady, Debi. Why is her jewelry so special? Well, besides the fact that it is simply fabulous looking, each piece has a story, and she loves to tell you about each piece of wearable art and how it came to be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Debi, like most people who lived in Coastal Alabama and Mississippi, lost most of her belongings to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina">Hurricane Katrina </a>back in 2005. She had been a collector of vintage costume jewelry, and most of it was ruined. But being a visionary, Debi saw that there was still value in the little jewels...she just needed to give them new life. She began to deconstruct the pieces and started putting new forms together as she saw them in her mind's eye. Beautiful new jewelry began to take shape, and before she knew it, she had made many new special pieces. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I remember admiring Debi's gorgeous one-of-a-kind pieces as she wore them to a popular monthly estate sale that we both attend. I never walked up to her to talk to her about her adornments until a couple of months ago. I'm so glad I finally did. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can not wait for Debi to show her jewelry as a vendor in the market on April 1-2. You will be blown away by their beauty and stories. Here are some pics of several pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you like what you see here, you need to attend the market. She is bringing along quite a show for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More information on the market can be found at the website, <a href="http://downinthedelta.net/">DownInTheDelta.net</a>. Tickets may be purchased by clicking on the tab "Tickets" at the top of the homepage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks for visiting today!</span></div>
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