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		<title>Saint Rat &#8211; Silly Silk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Asta Art</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saint Rat &#8211; Silly Silk, a photo by Serena Mira Asta (Formerly Elizabeth Anne) on Flickr. SOLD &#8211; Original Saint Rat batik on silk. First piece sold during the Fall 2011 Art Crawl!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forcesofnature.wordpress.com&amp;blog=697111&amp;post=308&amp;subd=forcesofnature&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Asta Art</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m creating a new art blog in time for the Fall 2011 St. Paul Art Crawl: Asta Art. It&#8217;s under construction, but check it out from time to time. I&#8217;d love constructive feedback!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forcesofnature.wordpress.com&amp;blog=697111&amp;post=296&amp;subd=forcesofnature&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carla Sonheim&#8217;s Art Camp</title>
		<link>http://forcesofnature.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/carla-sonheims-art-camp-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Asta Art</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah I&#8217;m toast from overdoing it the past few weeks. But I am so in love with Carla Sonheim&#8217;s childlike art techniques that I found myself signed up for all three of her Summer Art Camps: Imaginary Creatures, Faces 101, and Junk Mail Artist&#8217;s Book. This week is Faces 101 (we are supposed to end [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forcesofnature.wordpress.com&amp;blog=697111&amp;post=285&amp;subd=forcesofnature&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Two Towers &#8211; Freeing the GOP: Fun video</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Asta Art</dc:creator>
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		<title>Easter House</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 23:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Asta Art</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had so much fun in my papermaking class. And got inspired in great directions, many of which connect with the work I used to do with fiber. More to come, for sure! This is my piece for our vessel project. Created from handmade paper, Palm frond stems from Palm Sunday, Palm leaf ash mixed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forcesofnature.wordpress.com&amp;blog=697111&amp;post=268&amp;subd=forcesofnature&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Haute Dish is Out!</title>
		<link>http://forcesofnature.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/spring-haute-dish-is-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Asta Art</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[I'm published!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haute Dish: Spring 2011 is here! This is old news for those in the know &#8211; I&#8217;m behind, what with moving and packing and now unpacking. I have four pieces (!) in this issue &#8212;  I&#8217;m a lucky girl. It&#8217;s a gorgeous issue. Enjoy the entire thing online. Lots of good writing and art. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forcesofnature.wordpress.com&amp;blog=697111&amp;post=259&amp;subd=forcesofnature&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Noah&#8217;s Blog</title>
		<link>http://forcesofnature.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/noahs-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Asta Art</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My nephew has started a blog. He works hard to write each paragraph, which has inspired me to think about what I am doing here in my blog. So, like my nephew said in his most recent post, I will try my best to write here more often. Thank you Noah.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forcesofnature.wordpress.com&amp;blog=697111&amp;post=254&amp;subd=forcesofnature&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m published in Haute Dish!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 03:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Asta Art</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The literary magazine at Metropolitan State, Haute Dish, accepted two of my poems! (Thank you, poetry editors!) Click here to see them! The rest of the journal is also darned wonderful. Click here for the front page. Great art, prose, and poetry. It&#8217;s a fabulous organization, a beautiful publication (the hard copy will be out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forcesofnature.wordpress.com&amp;blog=697111&amp;post=229&amp;subd=forcesofnature&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catching up: The last 1.5 years</title>
		<link>http://forcesofnature.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/210/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Asta Art</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t written much in the past year and a half because, well, they sucked. And one can only whine so much before you bore yourself, not to mention others. Downside: I have found that new or potential friends will run screaming if you are truthful about how bad things really are. Upside: I&#8217;ll have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forcesofnature.wordpress.com&amp;blog=697111&amp;post=210&amp;subd=forcesofnature&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nanowrimo Coincides with Semi-Annual ER Visit!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Asta Art</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has begun! This year, I waited to see what writing needed to come out &#8211; fiction or memoir. And once again it is (drumroll please) creative non-fiction. I have some fiction in here somewhere, but memoir is in the way. So many stories, so few written down&#8230;. from this year and last anyway. Memoir [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forcesofnature.wordpress.com&amp;blog=697111&amp;post=200&amp;subd=forcesofnature&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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