tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66153254404401669192024-03-19T01:29:10.814-06:00EtcetorizeEtcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.comBlogger998125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615325440440166919.post-83346507950947505982016-05-23T12:53:00.001-06:002016-05-23T12:53:41.615-06:00Etcetorize Reads!Hi Everyone!<br />
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It's been a long time and I've missed Etcetorize so much! I miss the creative and supportive community of blogging, but I just don't find that I have the time anymore for the huge commitment that a sewing a crafting blog requires.<br />
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So....now I'm focusing on something different and something that I love just as much as sewing and crafting...READING!<br />
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<a href="http://etcetorizereads.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Etcetorize Reads</a> will focus on everything to do with books and reading! Etcetorize Reads includes fun things like:<br />
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I know many crafters love the creativity of exploring whole new imaginary worlds, so I hope you'll step into mine, and come check out Etcetorize Reads soon!</div>
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See you there~</div>
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Blogging everyday for over 5 years is a very hard habit to break, but <b>the time has come for me to devote some of my time to other interests</b>. I hope to still post from time to time, when I have something to share but otherwise things will slow down here at Etcetorize.</center>
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I knew that I had lost quite a bit of time earlier in the year when I got sidetracked by watching all 7 seasons of Stark Trek: The Next Generation in a row, so I randomly figured I could read 30 books by the end of the year....and I did! <br />
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There are a few in there that I didn't tell you about on any Tell a Tale Thursday posts. That's because I wanted to keep my reading posts here to just the good ones (that's a nice way of saying that there were a few duds), but if you find me on Goodreads you can read all of my reviews.<br />
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The top reads for me this year were easily <a href="http://etcetorize.blogspot.ca/2014/03/tell-tale-cane-river.html" target="_blank">Cane River</a> and <a href="http://etcetorize.blogspot.ca/2014/03/tell-tale-flower-boy.html" target="_blank">The Flower Boy</a>. They were both beautiful stories that took me outside of my regular Historical Fiction genre.<br />
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I'm so grateful for Goodreads. Without it I'd never remember some of the books I read. And it keeps me honest too! I thought I had read so many more books than 30 but the years are starting to melt into one another now so I'm probably just remembering great books from past years.<br />
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Next year I'll shoot for 40 books. As long as I limit my Netflix time this should be easily reachable. How about you? What did your year in books look like? What was your favourite book of the year? Leave a comment below~<br />
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One of my favourite parts of Christmas when I was a kid was when my Grandma would put out her bubble lights. They were like magic to me.<br />
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I suppose they're meant to be put on a tree, but my Grandma always lined them up in the window behind her Christmas village so that's how I like to display them now too. But that can be challenging when they look like this....<br />
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So, I came up with a wonderful recycle project that makes life with bubble lights much easier!<br />
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That's it! I just set mine up on my window sill and threw some fake greenery on top to cover the tube. You could paint the tube to help camouflage it even more but I found that this step wasn't necessary (plus I was throwing a party in a few hours and didn't have time for paint to dry).<br />
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Turn on your lights and watch the magic happen! Bubbles everywhere!<br />
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<u><b>Summary (from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15793184-calling-me-home" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Goodreads</a>):</b></u> <em style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Calling Me Home </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">by Julie Kibler is a soaring debut interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship</span><br />
<span id="freeText3757036491380445778" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><br /></span><span id="freeText3757036491380445778" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis. It's a big one. Isabelle wants Dorrie, a black single mom in her thirties, to drop everything to drive her from her home in Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati. With no clear explanation why. Tomorrow.</span><br />
<span id="freeText3757036491380445778" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><br /></span><span id="freeText3757036491380445778" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Dorrie, fleeing problems of her own and curious whether she can unlock the secrets of Isabelle's guarded past, scarcely hesitates before agreeing, not knowing it will be a journey that changes both their lives.</span><br />
<span id="freeText3757036491380445778" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><br /></span><span id="freeText3757036491380445778" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Over the years, Dorrie and Isabelle have developed more than just a business relationship. They are friends. But Dorrie, fretting over the new man in her life and her teenage son’s irresponsible choices, still wonders why Isabelle chose her.</span><br />
<span id="freeText3757036491380445778" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><br /></span><span id="freeText3757036491380445778" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Isabelle confesses that, as a willful teen in 1930s Kentucky, she fell deeply in love with Robert Prewitt, a would-be doctor and the black son of her family's housekeeper—in a town where blacks weren’t allowed after dark. The tale of their forbidden relationship and its tragic consequences makes it clear Dorrie and Isabelle are headed for a gathering of the utmost importance and that the history of Isabelle's first and greatest love just might help Dorrie find her own way.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Racism is a hard thing to read about and to write about. Even in writing this inconsequential little review I find myself deleting sentences, wondering if what I've written will be taken the wrong way and someone will be offended. I think it takes a brave author to venture into this arena.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">I liked the relationship between Dorrie and Isabelle and although I could see bits of myself in each character, found myself wanting to be more like Isabelle. I envied her ability to fall head over heels in love like she did. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">This book is heart breaking in so many ways though. All of the missed opportunities for love, understanding, and happiness are frustrating. To make up for it, there were many great lessons to be learned, the most important being that "The truth will set you free." Keeping secrets in an effort to protect someone else is almost never a good idea. Second and third chances are rare, especially when it comes to love.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">For me, the surest sign that I've fallen in love with a book is when I find myself still thinking about the characters even though the book is over, wondering what they're up to and how they're getting on. I like to think that Dorrie and Isabelle are closer than ever and that both have found their way back to a peaceful life filled with family, joy, and most importantly, love.</span><br />
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I made mine with my Silhouette machine but with a little patience you can easily do this without a cutting machine. Here's what you need:<br />
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Materials:<br />
-Special Occasion paper and plain paper<br />
-Glue runner, scissors<br />
-markers or sketch pens<br />
-if you're not using a cutting machine you can use a template or some other small round object to trace<br />
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1) Create a circle shape about 2 3/4" round.<br />
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2) Create another smaller circle just inside and off centre.<br />
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3) Make a copy of this shape, group it, and set it aside.<br />
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4) Now create an overlapping rectangle across one side of the large circle, overlapping edges.<br />
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5) In the modify toolbox, click on the Crop button. The will leave you with only the piece that was overlapping.<br />
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Now these next few steps are going to seem a little repetitive but this is how I usually operate when using my sketch pens and cutting.<br />
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6) Copy enough of your weird little shape from step 5 for the number of tags you want. Using your text tool write the names of your guests inside each one.<br />
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7) Now go back and delete all of the outline shapes.<br />
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8) Load up your favourite Sketch pen and send to Silhouette for printing.<br />
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VERY IMPORTANT: DO NOT MOVE YOUR MAT AFTER MACHINE IS DONE SKETCHING. Leave your mat in place and do not take it off the machine.<br />
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9) Hit undo until your screen looks like it did in step 6. Now delete all of the names. Replace your sketch pen with your cutting blade, and send to Silhouette for cutting.<br />
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10) Don't forget to cut out all of your base circles from some pretty Christmassy paper. Then just glue the pieces together.<br />
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11) I know what you're thinking...how the heck do I get this on a wine glass? Easy, just make a little snip in between the two circles.<br />
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Now you can really go to town and ink the edges or add glitter if you want, or you can just add them to your wine glasses as is. If you have a few beer drinkers at the party, steal some of this colourful little loom elastics from the playroom and attach a tag to a bottle that way~<br />
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You can make some extra blank ones for those surprise guests and just write names on with a marker. Or you can really make it fun and instead of names write some Christmas trivia on the front with the answers on the back. Get creative and have fun with your tags~<br />
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Check out my other fun (and very popular) wine glass project <a href="http://etcetorize.blogspot.ca/2010/12/whose-glass-is-that.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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What will you put on your tags? Leave a comment below.<br />
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I love that this card contains something that's actually of use, cute little tea lights!<br />
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For the top 2, I used some papers from my stash. For the bottom 2, I cut up some Christmas cards from Christmases past. See, this is my problem with cards....how long do you keep them? What do you do with them afterward? At least these 2 got put to use again~<br />
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You can see here that the top part opens up. I haven't put my sentiments in there yet but hopefully I will before Christmas rolls around.<br />
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I found that I had to enlarge the design about 1/4" to fit the tea lights. Maybe tea lights are different sizes in different countires? Who knew? The design also comes with several Christmassy embellishments that I didn't use.<br />
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You could add some acetate to the front window but I didn't want it looking like it was purchased so I left it open. The glitter tea lights are from the dollar store.<br />
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Do you still give Christmas cards every year? What do you do with yours at the end of the season? Leave a comment below~<br />
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Before you link up though, make sure to find out if your project from last week was featured over at Distressed Donna Down Home.<br />
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Here's what you need to make your own stickers:<br />
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-Blank stick on labels and a printer<br />
-Cutting machine or pencil and scissors<br />
-images<br />
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1) First find your images online and print them onto your label sheet. My labels are 3.33" X 4" (shipping labels) and I just did some Google searches using phrases like "Small Christmas Background" or "Small Sequin Background" etc.<br />
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2) Now find a nail template online like this one from <a href="http://www.lifewithfaith.org/photoemzu/nail-websites-template" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LifewithFaith.org</a><br />
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3) If you don't have a cutting machine just cut out the shapes, trace onto your labels, and cut out. If you do have a cutting machine you can use the trace and replicate features to let your machine to all the work for you.<br />
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Import your image and then find the Trace options:<br />
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Click on Select Trace Area and move your pointer to select one section of the nail images.<br />
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Now click on Trace Outer Edge. Once you've done this you can move the original image out of the way and just use your traced image. You will probably have to readjust to fit your finger size.<br />
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Don't forget to Replicate another set by mirroring the image first.<br />
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It took me a few tries to get an ok fit. I was a little disappointed at first when they wouldn't stick but then I took off my nail polish and tried again.<br />
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Much better!<br />
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Try coating with a layer of clear polish to really seal down the edges.<br />
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So much fun! These won't last more than one party, but I find the expensive ones from major nail brands don't do much better either.<br />
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What images would you put on your nail designs? Leave a comment below~<br />
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For those of you who like to live in a land of magic....<br />
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">Summary (from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23292450-wishes-and-sorrows" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Goodreads</a>):</u><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">For every wish there is a sorrow...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"> </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Wishes are born from sorrows, blessings are sometimes curses, and even fairy godmothers cannot always get what they want. In this original collection, Cindy Lynn Speer, the author of “The Chocolatier’s Wife”, brings to life creatures of myths and tales, mixing them into a vibrant tapestry of stories, happy and sad, magical and real, each lovingly crafted and sure to touch the reader’s soul. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Step into the world where magic is real, and every mundane bit of reality is as magical as a true fairy tale. </span><div>
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<b><u>Review</u></b>: <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Disclosure: I recieved a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">This book is quite far outside of my comfort zone of reading. I don't normally venture into fantasy and I rarely ever read short stories. That being said, I really enjoyed this collection and quickly fell in love the author's writing style.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">The first story about the Bell Witch really drew me in. I instantly connected with the characters and the story and could easily envision all of it every step of the way through the vines.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">It might be the romantic in me, but The Tower in the Desert, A Necklace of Rubies, and But Can you Let Him Go? also stood out to me.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">The author has a wonderful way of setting the scene and welcoming you into each story. Most are a retelling of stories we already know but I enjoyed the twists and turns. I'll definitely be on the lookout for more from this talented writer. I would love to see how she does with an entire novel</span><br />
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Around here head gear is not an option. If you don't want to freeze your ears off (OK, they won't actually fall off, they'll just feel like it), then you have to wear either ear muffs or a hat, better known as a toque.<br />
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I found <a href="http://www.heidiandfinn.com/2014/10/slouchy-beanie-hat-free-pattern-for.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">THIS</a> amazing and totally FREE pattern a few weeks ago from <a href="http://www.heidiandfinn.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Heidi and Finn</a>. You can also find it on my <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/Etcetorize/free-sewing-patterns/" target="_blank">FREE Sewing Patterns Pinterest Board</a>. (If you love to sew you really need to follow this board, it is full of awesome Free patterns.)<br />
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It's actually a kids pattern but the largest size fits my head perfectly. I made one for my boss from a T-shirt with our company's logo on it and it fit him too (and he loved it).<br />
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This comes together so fast that I went on a sewing spree and started using up all my scraps to make as many as I could. The 2 at the bottom are for my niece and nephew and the rest will be donated to a local daycare that's used mainly by mom's who need all the help they can get. <br />
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If you follow me on <a href="http://instagram.com/etcetorize" target="_blank">Instagram</a> you might remember that I was gifted an entire box of T-shirts from work. I figured refashioning them into kiddie hats was the best use for them.<br />
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I still have a few more cut out from my scraps left over from my <a href="http://etcetorize.blogspot.ca/2014/10/nordic-leggings.html" target="_blank">Nordic Leggings</a> too.<br />
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These will make great gifts at Christmas. Head over to <a href="http://www.heidiandfinn.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Heidi and Finn</a> and start making your own batch of beanies to keep your ears nice and toasty warm this winter~<br />
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