Summer In The Garden
June 21st is the Summer Solstice…and as Spring winds down, suddenly the garden I babied through the winter and spring is a mess of greens. It has gone crazy. Not that I am complaining! The little apple...
View ArticleCoastal Bliss for the Weekend
Kirk and I took the boys out to Kalaloch Lodge, which is in the Olympic National Park, on the coastal strip. It was my birthday weekend While most people clamber for the cabins (which are nice!), I...
View ArticleLiving A Life
As spring settles in, this reminds me daily that my blogs and writing are not everything. I have children, and yes, a life I need to live. It now sits in a curio box above my desk, a short and quiet...
View ArticleFear and Loathing of Halloween & The Teal Pumpkin Project
Let’s start this off with a tale…..one where a girl never celebrated any holidays growing up, because her parents followed a church that didn’t believe in them. Growing up in a world where people took...
View ArticleCrafting Little Treasure Jars
Crafting Little Treasure Jars – Walker and Alistaire have a habit of breaking piggy banks, but love to have little treasure chests for their coins. With a few mason jar accessories I had in my crafting...
View ArticleLearning To Sew Kits For Children
Anytime I have a child in my life who wants to learn to sew, I am all for it. The story behind the why? When I was a child, we had an old Singer treadle machine and a decrepit Brother machine. Neither...
View ArticleUrban Homesteading: March In The Garden
February left very rainy, and rain came right in as well in March, in the first half. One of our wettest winters on record, which after last year’s drought, I will take. March was also considerably...
View ArticleBook Review: 3 New Paper Craft Books
Paper Craft Books – my boys love these so much! And on rainy PNW afternoons, after school, it keeps them busy. Less TV, more creativity. As far as crafting time goes, I like paper ones. The worst...
View ArticleBook Review: Paper and Tape
Walker (my middle son) really loves Washi tape. I had to start buying it on Amazon just to save $$. He loves to use it on everything. Which I find funny at times, as a few years ago I’d see baskets of...
View ArticleBook Review: Chalk On The Wild Side
Let it be said I buy a lot of sidewalk chalk, so I was happy to review a copy of Chalk on the Wild Side: More than 25 chalk art projects, recipes, and creative activities for adults and children to...
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