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chalkSuddenly it is the middle of July! Before you know it summer will be gone and we will all be getting out our tights and fall skirts and digging our cute fall coats out of the closet.
I came by this link to Mad Maggie’s recipe for making sidewalk chalk via a long breadcrumb blog trail that I have misplaced. So If I got this off of your blog let me now!

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Anyway, regardless of whether or not you are having to deal with kids this summer I recommend you make your own chalk and then during your lunch hour go outside your office building and draw a big chalk catbus. It’ll cheer you up immensely, I promise.

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