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		<title>Small is Beautiful: March Link Love</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20100306/small-is-beautiful-march-link-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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We believe stories are valuable, no matter how many people read them.
We believe following your passion is more important that watching your site meter.
We believe in the handmade, the first try, the small start, and the good effort.
We believe that small is beautiful.
The first Saturday of the Month I click through the over 700 blogs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small is Beautiful: February Link Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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We believe stories are valuable, no matter how many people read them.
We believe following your passion is more important that watching your site meter.
We believe in the handmade, the first try, the small start, and the good effort.
We believe that small is beautiful.
This month in our February round up of Small, Beautiful, and Passionate bloggers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Is Beautiful: January Link Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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We believe stories are valuable, no matter how many people read them.
We believe following your passion is more important that watching your site meter.
We believe in the handmade, the first try, the small start, and the good effort.
We believe that small is beautiful.
This month in our January round up of Small, Beautiful, and Passionate bloggers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>40 Things I&#8217;ve Done In Bed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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My friend Claudia Mair Burney and I have a couple things in common. We are both religious misfits. We are both writers. We are both mothers. And we are both chronic pain survivors.
Awhile back, when I was in a period of struggling with pain and the way it limited my work, Claudia sent me a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small is Beautiful: One Year Later</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20080628/small-is-beautiful-one-year-later/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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A year has passed since Jen and I set up the Small is Beautiful revolution in the hopes of supporting small, passionate bloggers while they find their writing voice. Like the proverbial snowball rolling downhill, the list of people taking the pledge and adding the button swiftly grew to first dozens, then, to a hundred, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raising Money for Hope&#8230;and a Cow</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 01:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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Buy a Farm Animal: Change a Life
Donate a buck or a billion at ChipIn 
< Original art by Jen Lemen
for Let’s Help Ourselves and Others
It’s a rare day that I find a project so solid and so personal that I’m ready to champion it from the rooftop – but this is one of them! My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small is Beautiful Saturdays: New Blogs to Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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Small is Beautiful is still maturing in it&#8217;s own small ways.
This weekend, Paul helped me upload a bunch of the blogs in waiting. You can wander through them now by category! The orginal set of passionate bloggers will be categorized in time as well, but right now they appear on the orginal SIB page, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small is Beautiful</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20080223/small-is-beautiful/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20080223/small-is-beautiful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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Hello my passtionate neighbors! Have you been wondering what happened to the Small is Beautiful Saturday posts? Since our overseas move has thrown me off a bit, my partner in crime Jen Lemen has taken over for a few weeks. Pop over there to see last week&#8217;s Top 7 of 07 and she might even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small is Beautiful Saturday: Top 7&#8217;s from &#8216;07</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20080119/small-is-beautiful-saturday-top-7s-from-07/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20080119/small-is-beautiful-saturday-top-7s-from-07/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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Here&#8217;s the first batch of fun reading from our Small is Beautiful bloggers. Why not click around and find out what&#8217;s happeining in the SIB neighborhood. (If you&#8217;re not on here, don&#8217;t worry, there will be a new batch next saturday. Want to join in the fun? here&#8217;s how.)
Happy reading!
Vanessa has her faves up at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small is Beautiful Saturday: Top 7 of &#8216;07</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20080112/small-is-beautiful-saturday-top-7-of-07/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20080112/small-is-beautiful-saturday-top-7-of-07/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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Greetings bloggers! It&#8217;s the second weekend in January and high past time to highlight your favorite bits of writing from the past year. 
There are over 200 folks on (or waiting to get on) the Small is Beautiful blogroll these days. Who knew Jen and I would light such a fire when gathered a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Sides of a Coin</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20071120/two-sides-of-a-coin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Magpie Girl]]></category>
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I&#8217;m back at my studio after two weeks of travel, early school dismissals, and sinus infections. Inspite of the goodness that is family mangement/motherhood. it never ceases to amaze me how that gig can consume every last drop of time for creative pursuits.
It&#8217;s bittersweet to be here these days, knowing that I&#8217;ll have to pack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have a Small is Beautiful Holiday</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20071110/small-is-beautiful-saturday-tips/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20071110/small-is-beautiful-saturday-tips/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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An UPDATE: Yikes! Jen just called and said they&#8217;ve had major problems with their zine files and have to abort the project of this season. (So sad!) So the prize for the Tip Rally is now two beautiful hardcover holiday cook books: Christmas: A Cook&#8217;s Tour with reciepes and tradtions from around the world, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small is Beautiful Saturday: Inspiration from the BlogRoll</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20071103/small-is-beautiful-saturday-inspiration-from-the-blogroll/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20071103/small-is-beautiful-saturday-inspiration-from-the-blogroll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Magpie Girl]]></category>
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Hello Small and Passionate Bloggers! 
It&#8217;s been thrilling to see how many people have joined our tiny revolution! If some of you have added our button, but not been added to the blog roll, please be patient! I&#8217;m trying to get everyone up, but I&#8217;m a little flooded by the enthusastic response! Hang in there, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Is Beautiful: Tiny gifts from small makers.</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20071027/small-is-beautiful-tiny-gifts-from-small-makers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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I know, it&#8217;s a little early to be talking about the holidays. (When spoken this early in the season I feel like I should whisper that word &#8212; like the grandmother in Sixteen Candles who would only whisper &#8216;cancer.&#8217; I&#8217;m probably really dating myself right now, huh?) At any rate, the reason I bring up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special Request</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20071025/special-request/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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This Saturday for Small is Beautiful, we&#8217;ll be featuring blogroll members who offer handmade items for sale. Got an etsy shop? Selling your prints on line? Did you make your art work downloadable? Have you been knitting up a storm? Let me know! I&#8217;d like to feature Small is Beautiful blog arts this week &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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