Archive for 2008 February
More stripey goodness
I lulled myself to sleep last night, thinking about how best to get the stripey look I started to experiment with yesterday. I decided the best way to get narrow stripes would be to start with narrow stripes. Almost. I got the soft stripes I wanted, but I decided to go back on what I [...]
continue reading "More stripey goodness"They might be stripey or polka dot…
…but we can all pajammy in whatever we’ve got! Sorry. Sandra Boynton took over my keyboard there for a minute. Stripes. I wanted to talk about stripes. Dan Cormier got some really nifty-looking stripes with his take on the Skinner Blend, and I’ve been itching to try my own version for a week now. Since [...]
continue reading "They might be stripey or polka dot…"Eight years, one day, and counting
Yesterday we celebrated the anniversary of the day I had two large nurses jumping forcefully on my abdomen in an effort to eject a certain stubborn little person who had decided to be born two weeks early and then changed his mind at the last minute. The little stinker is now eight years old and [...]
continue reading "Eight years, one day, and counting"The smell of brownies
Aidan turns eight tomorrow and his celebratory food of choice is brownies. The house smells wonderful right now. If I had my way, I’d spend this evening responding to all of your thought-provoking comments on my post about art, reading some of the other Synergy commentary popping up in blogs today, and slurping brownie batter [...]
continue reading "The smell of brownies"The camera adds ten pounds
I am aware of the idea that the camera adds ten pounds. I just never realized that it added all ten of them to the face – ack! It is so neat to be on the cover of the little magazine (and the front of the newspaper, and on the magazine’s index page, and on [...]
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