How fabulous would life be, if the most pressing matter on your mind was which Amy Butler Midwest Modern fabric to use in your new holiday skirt? Join me in this happy little fantasy world, won’t you? And solve my most pressing dilemma: Martini… …or Optic Blossom? The plan is to wear the same black […]
Read More: Decisions, decisions…Month: December 2008
Distractable
I woke up with morning with holiday swapping on my mind. I started working on the CD portion of the exchange, but quickly burned-out on All Things Christmas and suddenly wanted nothing to do with the whole thing. [As an aside, maybe the kind of swap I need is an Easily Distracted Swap. The rules […]
Read More: DistractableDo you do this?
And by “this” I mean, get sucked into reading old posts on your own blog? Do you innocently follow a link back to something you said four months ago, and then find yourself spending the next hour reading about berry-picking, swimming, and lemonade smoothies? Or do you maybe look back to the post you wrote […]
Read More: Do you do this?Impressions
Reading about yourself in the third person can be an odd experience. You might find yourself thinking any number of second-guessing kind of thoughts, such as: Did I really say that? (Sorry, Mom – I think something got lost in translation, and I don’t ever remember our crafting together ending in tears. Driving lessons and […]
Read More: ImpressionsSlow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup
Poor Neil. He doesn’t subscribe to the theory that soup can be considered a meal. It never used to be an issue between us, but somewhere in the last year, I went and became a soupie. I’ve been seduced by these steaming bowls of goodness. Where once I was of the mind that the only […]
Read More: Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla SoupFinally. The Christmas Napkins.
Please tell me these will be our “forever napkins.” I don’t think I can spend another Late November / Early December cranking out napkin after napkin after napkin. *yawn* I do so love the results. But the actual making? of 28 napkins? Well, it’s a little boring. And that’s why it took me 2 weeks […]
Read More: Finally. The Christmas Napkins.There are no rules in Christmas decorating
It’s a small thing, really, but it still took entirely too long to hit me: Decorating for Christmas does not have to be a One Day Event. It does not have to be like the one festive Sunday of my childhood, a few weeks before Christmas, when we would put up the tree and decorate […]
Read More: There are no rules in Christmas decoratingAn end to the (almost) silence
Whew. Glad that‘s over. Interesting as it was to try and take reasonably compelling photos of everyday tasks and let them speak for themselves here, I do prefer being able to sit down for a while in the evenings with my thoughts and share a bit. And that includes words. Often many of them. So, […]
Read More: An end to the (almost) silenceWoFW: Friday
For Week of Few Words. I’m sitting on my parents’ couch after midnight, listening to the banging of the pipes. I’d forgotten how noisy the steam heat was in this house. I used to find it a comforting noise. Now, I just hope it doesn’t keep me up tonight. I’m here because I’m participating in […]
Read More: WoFW: FridayWoFW: Thursday
For Week of Few Words. After a slow start involving a Wii that is going under our tree this year but clearly needed to be taken for a test drive – just to make sure it works properly. further testing may be required. you know how it is. – I managed to cross some things […]
Read More: WoFW: Thursday