Went to my last MOMS Club meeting as “website coordinator” today, handed the reigns over to someone new, went with Eamonn to our favorite bagel place to grab some lunch, picked up Aidan from his last day of school, wandered a few towns over to check out the first Farmers Market of the season, bought […]
Read More: School’s out!Category: chit chat
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
Or so they say. I got a few new books today. It turns out that three of the books on my Amazon wish list are published by a company that I deal with for my store. So when I re-ordered a few polymer clay titles last week, I also added these pretty little books, and […]
Read More: The apple doesn’t fall far from the treeSaturday sweetness
It’s a beautiful, slightly breezy, 76-degree morning, perfect for a cup of Irish Breakfast tea, shortbread cookies, and the laptop by an open window. After I’ve unwound here a bit, I’ll be ready to really kick off the day – a day that I hope to fill with handmade skirt-wearing, flea market-going, and hand-holding at […]
Read More: Saturday sweetnessBeauty Night
At some point tonight, while I was bustling around the kitchen, putting away the leftover food and wiping my gooey hands on my apron, the thought occurred to me that it’s been a while since I’ve had my eyebrows waxed. That thought was quickly followed by the realization that there is no convenient time to […]
Read More: Beauty NightHeat wave
Hello, friends. You chose a hot day to drop by! Mid-nineties, and all that. Good thing I have a few chilled mugs of Strawberry-Lemonade Smoothie. Take one and have a sip – you won’t be sorry! They’re made with the farmers market strawberries that I froze last week. There’s something about knowing where your ingredients […]
Read More: Heat waveThis, that and the other thing
The verdict on the strawberries? Wash ’em, cut ’em up, freeze ’em and put off deciding what to do with ’em until some other time. Whew. There’s a load off my mind. That was “this,” and now this is “that:” Apparently all of our mothers shopped at JC Penneys for sheets when we were kids, […]
Read More: This, that and the other thingColor Challenge Finalists for May
It’s the last day of May, and that means Color Challenge time again! This time the color was DAFFODIL, and we had 104 entries to the pool. I picked nine of my favorites to be finalists. Allow me to introduce you to the finalists, before I reveal the winner: Small_IMG_0953, by mawshimp Mother’s day rabbit […]
Read More: Color Challenge Finalists for MayLibrary thing
I signed up for Library Thing sometime last year, but never bothered to populate it. I have a lot of books. Enough that it could take me weeks to enter them all. I couldn’t face the prospect, so my account languished. Michele’s new blog gave me the push I needed to look at it more […]
Read More: Library thingWelcome, summer
I know the calendar says to wait until June, but summer officially arrived at my house today. I put away the everyday kitchen linens and replaced them with the Summer linens. How fun to be able to do that! This means it’s been almost a year of cloth napkins around here – I can’t imagine […]
Read More: Welcome, summerThis is what 37 looks like
At least, this is how it looks on me (minus the grainy film that comes from taking pictures in less than optimal natural lighting)! My sunburn is peeling, I’ve got a few more gray hairs and a couple of laugh lines, but none of that bothers me. I admit it. I am a total birthday […]
Read More: This is what 37 looks like
