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		<title>Long Time No See&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, here I am! In my new house and beautiful new garden with a wonderful new Suffolk beach to explore almost at my doorstep, hence the lack of blogs &#8211; for which I apologise. A lot has happened in the world of Laura by The Sea in the past few weeks&#8230; My new studio space [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clutter City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am going to have a stall at Clutter City, Norwich Arts Centre&#8230; I do hope you can all cone along and see what unique vintage upcycled jewelry I have for you! Live music and BBQ all day&#8230; Be there or be square! See advert for more details&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lauraball.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/06/clutter-city/</link>
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		<title>My First Craft Fair!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have some great news!&#8230; I have been invited to sell my ceramic jewelry pieces at my very first craft fair! Called Clutter City Markey at the Norwich Arts Centre, UK, it is &#8220;a platform for creative independent crafters / artists / collectives to sell their work&#8221; and they &#8220;focus on original, quirky and unique [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lauraball.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/06/my-first-craft-fair/</link>
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		<title>Contemplating Writing A Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have recently started writing a regular blog for Beside The Seaside (See http://www.besidetheseaholidays.com/blog/) and taking research from my BA Hons degree dissertation on The British Seaside I am writing a regular article to drum up support for a revival in all things from the sea. From Punch and Judy shows on the sands to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lauraball.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/06/contemplating-writing-a-book/</link>
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		<title>Leave the World Behind, Go to the Seaside!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do so many men fish from the beach near Lowestoft when they catch so little? &#8220;They just want to be in a place where they have the world behind them, and before them nothing but emptiness&#8221; wrote W G Sebald in his book The Rings of Saturn. In my opinion, when it comes to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lauraball.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/05/leavr-the-world-behind-go-to-the-seaside/</link>
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		<title>Living Life in the Present</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspiration for my work, both painting and jewelry making, comes rather sporadically sometimes and is often in stops and starts. After a few troubles in my life recently this certainly has been the case. So after reading an article in the recent UK Coast Magazine I have been inspired to write about it and to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lauraball.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/05/living-life-in-the-present/</link>
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		<title>Donkey Rides Banned From Beach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This new blog post has come about sooner than I imagined. I was planning on blogging every Sunday during my long cliff top walk with the dog. However, in the light of recent news I just had to write about it&#8230; &#8220;Donkeys Banned from Cromer Beach&#8221;. A mother of three living in the traditional seaside [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lauraball.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/05/donkey-rides-banned-from-beach/</link>
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		<title>Starting from the Start</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When asked to write a blog for Beside The Seaside Holidays because of our love of the British seaside I thought what better place to start than at the beginning. We all have fond memories of childhood holidays beside the sea however, the great British seaside used to be a remarkably different place to how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lauraball.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/05/starting-from-the-start/</link>
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		<title>My Pledge to Handmade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As many of you readers have probably noticed from my many Artfire posts, I am in the process of moving house. My studio is half packed, half unbelieveably messy and stacked full of boxes. I do however, have a small space on my desk with the essential tools for my jewelry making so all is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lauraball.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/05/my-pledge-to-handmade/</link>
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		<title>Not Mass Produced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am proud to bring you the news that I have been invited to sell my work on Not Mass Produced! They are a UK based website dedicated to promoting hand made products from local artisans in the UK and Europe and strongly believe in environmentally friendly products, reducing our carbon footprint and keeping traditional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lauraball.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/05/not-mass-produced/</link>
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