One of the biggest adjustments I’ve had to working part-time is the fact that I share office space. There are four “stations,” used by up to seven different part-time employees, and we’re expected to remain flexible and use whichever one is available (rather than claim a favorite). It works well,[Read more]
I am having way too much fun achieving my goal of wrapping Christmas gifts without buying anything new and/or using something disposable. Gifts of jewelry and handmade ornaments that we mailed to out-of-town relatives were wrapped in holiday hand towels I bought years ago (probably at an after-Christmas sale) but[Read more]
Our youngest son has had October 1 circled on his calendar since about mid-August – the first time he asked, “When can we put up our Halloween decorations?” Of course, it wasn’t enough for me to give him a date he could look forward to; I had to come up with[Read more]
One of the few pieces of furniture my husband brought into the joining of our households was a small, pressed-wood bookcase. There is nothing particularly special about it, but because of its size and generic shape, it’s easily tucked into small spaces and closets, so we’ve held onto it throughout[Read more]
After weeks of organizing and purging the clutter in our home, I’ve reached the place where now I have to use or lose some of our ever growing stash of obtainium. I’m beginning with the most obvious projects, some of which have sat on my craft table, amid bills and[Read more]
You know the pictures that you’re told, if you look at them closely, you’ll see more than one image? At first glance it looks like a tree … then, suddenly you see the outline of an old woman (just an example – no old woman was harmed in the making[Read more]