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  • It was like wrestling a crepe-paper cutout in a cartoon.

    Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010

  • This is the Dutch language version of the Shitakiri suzume, one of the so-called chirimen bon crepe-paper books that were created for foreigners during the Meiji period.

    Shitakiri suzume tellurian 2010

  • The yoga studio was filled with pastel-colored helium balloons clinging to the ceiling and pink crepe-paper swirls dripping from the walls; a purple and yellow sparkly banner that read HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOLLY covered most of the giant om symbol dominating the back of the room.

    Substitute Me Lori L. Tharps 2010

  • Many may say I didn't give Mother's Day its proper due, but the individuals who really got lost in the shuffle of crepe-paper flowers and restaurant brunches this past weekend are babysitters.

    Molly Baker: All Hail National Babysitter's Day Molly Baker 2010

  • This is the Dutch language version of the Shitakiri suzume, one of the so-called chirimen bon crepe-paper books that were created for foreigners during the Meiji period.

    Archive 2010-02-01 tellurian 2010

  • Many may say I didn't give Mother's Day its proper due, but the individuals who really got lost in the shuffle of crepe-paper flowers and restaurant brunches this past weekend are babysitters.

    Molly Baker: All Hail National Babysitter's Day 2010

  • Centuries of practice enable them to produce amate paper of any thickness, from the equivalent of crepe-paper to poster-board.

    Did You Know? Most "bark paper" comes from wild fig trees 2008

  • Centuries of practice enable them to produce amate paper of any thickness, from the equivalent of crepe-paper to poster-board.

    Did You Know? Most "bark paper" comes from wild fig trees 2008

  • The pots of gold and crepe-paper rainbows were not yet sullied by a sea of Guinness cans and vegetable-soup vomit.

    Curse of the Spellmans Lisa Lutz 2008

  • The pots of gold and crepe-paper rainbows were not yet sullied by a sea of Guinness cans and vegetable-soup vomit.

    Curse of the Spellmans Lisa Lutz 2008

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