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Watercolor Alphabet Stencil Art
Time to get artsy fartsy. I have persistently pilfered through thrift store bins and hoarded years worth of recycled crafts for a rainy day. In Arizona, we don’t get too many rainy days so stuff piled up. If you are reading this, chances are you too enjoy creating with your hands and have a pile…
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Payson Arizona is Home to Shoofly Village Ruins
Ruins were in the vicinity (as they always are in Arizona) when our camping trip in Payson was rained out. Our wet, defeated selves shuffled into a nearby hotel room with all the comforts of home. The camping gear lay untouched and soaked from the night before at Houston Mesa campground. We packed up and…
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Hayes Photography: A Toddler Gallery
Born 2010 in Scottsdale, Arizona, Hayes Rhinehart is a leading self-taught artist creating works both locally and abroad. Rhinehart’s works can be found hung on the refrigerator at his parents’ house, Maria Montessori in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico and now online. He currently resides in Pinetop, Arizona but will soon take his talents…
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The Navajo Nation’s Capital: Window Rock
Window Rock is located about 27 miles northwest of Gallup, N.M., and about 6 miles southeast of Fort Defiance, Arizona, it is just across the New Mexico-Arizona state line, on the Arizona side, in Apache County. From the parking lot, tiny silhouettes of people can be seen hiking within the window taking in the view.…
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Blameless Balls of Meat
Let’s be honest, Italian food isn’t exactly the healthiest of foods. Mama Mia! It tends to be loaded with carbs that put a damper on squeezing into that slinky dress or tight-as-hell jeans. Omitting breadcrumbs means fewer carbs if you are into that sort of thang. Fresh herbs bump up the flavor on this healthier version…
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Exploring Gorgeous Canyon de Chelly in Northeastern Arizona 3/3
[Story continued from Part 2] Flute music echoed in the chilly morning air. Howard strolled by with coffee in hand saying “good morning” to all of the campers. I served up a bland breakfast of eggs and toast. From the campground, we hiked three miles roundtrip to the canyon ridge where we could appreciate Ledge ruin. Once…
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Exploring Gorgeous Canyon de Chelly in Northeastern Arizona 2/3
[Story continued from Part 1] After lunch we drove over to the north rim and planned to hit all of the overlooks. Like an amateur, I forgot my long lens at home and cursed myself every time I couldn’t get a closer shot of the distant ruins. The quarter-mile hike to view the Antelope House…
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Exploring Gorgeous Canyon de Chelly in Northeastern Arizona 1/3
From White House Overlook the 80-room White House Ruin, inhabited between 1040 A.D. and 1275 A.D., appeared to be swallowed by the massive burnt orange canyon wall. We hiked 600 feet down to the canyon floor passing smooth sandstone buttes along the way that looked something straight out of National Geographic Magazine. Stunning and unearthly.…
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How Vegetable Gardening Benefits Children
My three-year-old son has been gardening since he could walk. I can recall living in the historical district of downtown Phoenix in a 1926 tudor house with blue trim that allowed for oodles of gardening room. My son loved to hand the germinated plants over to me as I stuffed it in the soft, black…
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Upcycle With A DIY Whiteboard
Personalizing your own dry erase board is childsplay when you think about driving down to Walmart or Office Max to pick out an imported cookie-cutter whiteboard wrapped in a heap of misused plastic. Choosing to whiteboard scrap wood means upcycling (environmentally friendly) and also scores you mega points for creativity. I chose a fragmented piece…
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