About Me

Name: Anna Bland

Hometown: Ames, Iowa

Education: B.A. in English, Art, and Religion from Central College 2006

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Married: To Mark Bland, August 18, 2007

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Children: Nora Anne, born February 25, 2009

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Occupation: Homemaker

Favorite color: Used to be red, now green.  I think.

Hobbies and interests:

Gardening (my vegetable garden is my current obsession)

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Being outside

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Reading (both for my own enjoyment and for Nora)

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Writing

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Sewing (my current project is a quiet time book for Nora to use during house church meetings.  This picture is of Nora in a dress I made her last summer)
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Art (drawing and painting - this is my most recent painting, for our living room)

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Parenting (Nora occupies the vast majority of my time and energy, and she's fun, cute, sweet, and funny.  Definitely qualifies her as both an interest and a hobby)

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Traveling

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Horses (this interest has been dormant for a while, but it is still in there!)

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Current favorite songs: 

(I did have the actual songs up here to listen to, but Mark had me take them down because he thought I might be violating copyright.  Sorry.)

The Valley Song by Jars of Clay

Sapphire by Remedy

I'll Never Forget by Dazy Head Mazy

Mercy Reigns by Shane and Shane

Baba Yetu (Lord's Prayer in Swahili) by Christopher Tin and The Soweto Gospel Choir

About

I am a wife, a mom, a writer, an artist, a servant of Christ, a cook, a reader, and so many other things I can't even think of them all.

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