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		<title>Go Dog, Go! Kirkland Canine Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contests, demonstrations and more! Fun in a DOG FRIENDLY environment! This event with be held at the Crestwoods Park in Kirkland, from 10:00am &#8211; 3:00pm. All money raised is to help your fellow-dog community in Kirkland for a much needed dog park. Please some and support your community of dogs and have some fun too! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=renaissancecafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3898690&amp;post=252&amp;subd=renaissancecafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sandpaper Impressionism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>D.R.E.A.M. Dogs for Reading, Education, Assistance and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is your dog good with kids or seniors? Would you and your dog like to make a difference in your community? I recently visited Becky Bishop at Puppy Manners Ranch, a muttropolis resort and canine education camp for Seattle&#8217;s best dogs. Becky also happens to be the Executive Director of Reading with Rover, an exciting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=renaissancecafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3898690&amp;post=160&amp;subd=renaissancecafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Natural Light Photographer Captures the Brilliance of the NW</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend I attended the 33rd annual Choochokam Arts Festival on Whidbey Island. While perusing the arts and crafts offerings, a lovely framed picture at the corner of a booth caught my eye. I thought it was a watercolor and stepped closer to get a better look. I glanced up at the signage above [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=renaissancecafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3898690&amp;post=118&amp;subd=renaissancecafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Family Fun: A Homespun Terrarium</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terrariums, originally invented by Nathaniel Ward, an English physician and botanist, are plants inside glass. Actually, they are beautiful, portable works of art. It just so happens that there is a learning element as well. That&#8217;s right, when you make a miniature greenhouse, you can learn about eco-systems while enjoying a miniature garden at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=renaissancecafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3898690&amp;post=25&amp;subd=renaissancecafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CityDog Cover Dog Model Search</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had to think long and hard about whether I wanted to share this information or not. After all, my mini Aussie is the cutest puppy on the face of the planet and should most certainly win by default alone. However, there is the slimmest chance that perhaps, and I say perhaps, there might be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=renaissancecafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3898690&amp;post=18&amp;subd=renaissancecafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Art and Music &#8211; As Necessary as Oxygen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Art is quite possibly the most honest truth we have. Thankfully, there will always be people willing to explain the world as they see it&#8230; musicians, painters, sculptors, poets and dancers&#8230; These people, these artists, translate their feelings and sounds into beauty, honesty, anger, sadness, brutality and pain . . . My whole life, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=renaissancecafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3898690&amp;post=7&amp;subd=renaissancecafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weaving with Nature</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a story in Greek mythology, there lived a beautiful maiden named Arachne. Arachne was an excellent weaver and challenged the goddess Athena to a weaving contest. When Athena saw that Arachne&#8217;s weaving was more beautiful, she transformed Arachne into a spider. And that&#8217;s why spiders weave such beautiful webs. Although weaving is an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=renaissancecafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3898690&amp;post=6&amp;subd=renaissancecafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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