My daughter looked at me the other day, right in my eyes so that she knew she had my full attention and said, “Mom, I think Jane is a feminist”. (Jane is one of her friends. Except I changed her name; anonymity and all that). She said it with a sort of reverence, as if …
Here is what I would like to wear to work, unless they start to let us wear sweatpants and then I will wear sweatpants. Maybe yoga pants.
I finished one corner of my bedroom makeover. Don’t worry, I’ve given myself the whole year to get it completed, so I’m right on track. I don’t really have a before picture of this area. Just picture it empty. Cause that’s what it was. There was nothing there. Now I have a nice place to …
I’ve decided that for the Bedroom Year I’m going to tackle the bedroom starting in one corner and then work my way around. I’m going to start with the corner where I want to add a plant. Mostly because that feels like the easiest place to start and I am so not motivated when it comes to …
You may have heard that we’ve had a touch of weather in Massachusetts. I will say this. My front yard looks like a landscape from another planet. We are surrounded by 6, 8, 12 foot mountains of snow. Everywhere. It’s excellent weather for sitting in the house and doing NOTHING. Until you get so bored …
I wasn’t going to post this because it was so crazy easy, but then I took some pictures and I just adore how it came out, so I decided to do a quickie tutorial. Materials: Embroidery Floss – I used three different colors and 1-2 skeins (? is that what that’s called? the …
A wise man once said, “You want to go into forty the way you want to come out of it”. Ok, it was Bill Rancic. And he may have been quoting someone else, but for some reason it has stuck with me for years. I’ve documented occasionally my desire to be thinner, healthier, stronger, more …
January was an interesting month. I’ve read that it is a slow month for bloggers, but this blog definitely saw a boom! I’ll get into that in a second. Let’s talk goals first. January’s Goals Goal #1 Increase social media presence/followers Pinterest – 525 Followers – Did not achieve – 521 Twitter – 60 Followers – Achieved! …
We have a winner! Last week I announced a contest in this post called Choose My Next Craft Adventure. The votes are in and have been tabulated. (No hanging chads were identified. Google hanging chad for a recent American History lesson if you don’t what that means). And the winner is: That’s the inspiration photo …
I had to google what the singular of fries was for this post. Just thought I should disclose that. These are inspired by a recipe I found on the Better Homes & Garden website. They are really easy to make. I used the spicy waffle fries and baked them til they were as crispy as …