I’m not sure I can recall the last time I saw a large body of water, the kind with a beach at one edge and no land visible on the other side. But, for some reason, beachfront images are all that I’m painting these days. My sketchbook and little pieces[Read more]
Colorful wool felt balls have captured my imagination and dominated my Pinterest feed for several months. Those fuzzy shapes with muted hues just look happy! And the idea of felting wool, poking and poking at it ’til you get the desired shape, seems like it would be satisfying. On more[Read more]
Today’s pondering: is there anything more satisfying than a good “before and after?” My oldest and I spent last Saturday pressure washing our back deck and I can’t stop staring at it. Not just the results, but the results as compared with the photos I took before we tackled this[Read more]
In August, my parents will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary and my sisters and I will host an anniversary party to help them celebrate. While I’m biding my time this summer, I thought I might start gathering supplies for the centerpieces and make a list of what we need to[Read more]
I know myself very well. Although I didn’t know exactly what recovering from surgery would be like, I knew I’d need options for passing the time – activities that felt productive at a time when I would be discouraged from doing much of anything. I settled on a cottage-of-the-month cross-stitch[Read more]
Over the last decade I’ve proven there’s little I won’t write about and publish for anyone with internet access to see. In my early days of blogging, some of this oversharing happened as the result of multiple lifequakes. I simply lost my filter while digging out of relationship rubble. Then,[Read more]