day 226

understandably appealing only to carnivores

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day 225

loved this one!  i had been thinking of this for a long time and it finally came to be.  it was a happy surprise that my daughter (right) and her friend have hair exactly the same length!  i love the straight vs. curly!

day 224

ok, so the bruise was just a start, but with a little eye shadow  you would swear it really was heart-shaped!

day 223

it was a "what am i going to do?!" night .... and, predictably, the inspiration was there

day 222

one length of ribbon and two beads...

day 221

i don't know why there are random "v"s cut into our curbs, but they do make a nice start to a heart

day 220

     confession:  i do love my occasional     Meal of Happiness.  french fry love.

day 219

     Pizza trying to be a heart.  It's a stretch (but it was tasty).

day 218

after spotting a promising-looking bush outside a local restaurant, I crept over on an early sunday morning with my clippers - my daughter as an accomplice - and (feeling quite the mischief-maker) with a few snips transformed it ....... i hope diners are pleasantly surprised

day 217

playing with positive and negative space

day 216

my maple tree didn't mind being used for heART's sake

day 215

this only took a few minutes but this banana started aging almost instantly.  not one for saving.

day 214

this one quickly threatened to burn out of control...lucky it even resembles a heart!

day 213

the sweet Shelley poem we printed on the program for our wedding ceremony 25 years ago, recreated on this vintage typewriter

day 212

a magnetic mosaic of nails

day 211

tiny antique ivory dice and favorite family board game, Pollyanna

day 210

carved out of a block of clay

day 209

I folded white paper, made very thin cut-outs, and backed it with orange paper

day 208

this tiny cross stitch took 4 hours to make!

day 207

after fiddling with a toilet paper tube i had sitting around, i decided it would look most fun doing its intended job.  i wrenched the tube out of a fresh roll and re-inserted the heart-shaped tube.....t.p. at its funnest!

day 206

I carved a round piece of soapstone, which took a bit of effort!

day 205

playing with paper at Pour La France........... et voilà!

day 204

the sun was shining through a patio chair onto a  post and I thought it was cool so i quick cut out a paper heart and taped it to the chair to make a heart shadow before the sun changed (bonus: a fantastic demonstration of a run-on sentence)

day 203

happiness is a heart-shaped foil thingy with little colored ball thingies in it

day 202

looks like blood but it's food coloring  :)

day 201

I hacked away at our fence post with a saw and chisel to make this permanent heart

day 200!

dear dead fly in my window, if i trim off your wayward legs you become a heart for today!  yes, i will pin you down and make a specimen of you and call you the latin translation for  "heart fly".  happy day 200.

day 199

waking up the grass with a bit of love

day 198

i collected these dandelion puffs blowing around the parking garage at the airport in Denver, thinking future heart thoughts.  somehow they take on a blue tinge against the black paper

day 197

i wrenched these big pine cones off a discarded branch by the side of the road, and they fit together perfectly <3