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		<title>Art that connects with The Creator</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Rountree]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2019 15:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kristi Nash Harrison says she&#8217;s an attention deficit artist. &#8220;I jump from one thing to the next,&#8221; she told me when I caught up with her this week as she was preparing for what&#8217;s become known as &#8220;the most anticipated little craft show in Mechanicsville.&#8221; That would be The Three Whine Oh’s and Friends Holiday [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Remembering a wise &#038; creative grandmother</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Rountree]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[My Grandma Ruby would have been 112 today. Born in 1907, she passed away just weeks before our first child was born in 2004. I&#8217;ve shared a little about her here, where I discussed the handmade furniture she created from scraps of wood for my mother to use with her dolls. In honor of Ruby [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The old black walnut tree</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patti Jones]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2019 20:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I recently traveled back home to visit my mom for a few days on the family farm in Wythe County, Virginia. I love that farm, which has been in my family for so many generations. The living monument that has stood guard over the farm all these years is a huge black walnut tree. In [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>First piece in a new series celebrates life</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patti Jones]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2019 20:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Take Time to Stop &#38; Smell the Roses: Appreciating&#160;the&#160;little&#160;things I am a breast cancer survivor. As I work on this Wire People collection, &#8220;Childhood Memories,&#8221; I am reminded that as terrible as breast cancer is, it can never take away your precious memories. This collection is dedicated to my mom and grandmother. My grandmother was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Rountree]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2016 03:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My Grandma Ruby didn&#8217;t have a lot of money as she raised my mother and her two sisters and step-children in Pearisburg, a small town nestled in the mountains of Southwest Virginia. If her family was to have most anything, Grandma had to make it. From dolls’ clothes and furniture, to tablecloths to my mother&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Paw Umberger gave space for inspiration</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patti Jones]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2016 03:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My grandfather, Homer Blanton Umberger, was born and raised on the family farm in Wytheville, Virginia in 1897. The land had been given to his family as part of a land grant from the King of England many years before. My grandfather lived on that farm, the Reed Creek Poultry Farm, all his life. He [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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