Family oh family. What joy it is to have dear ones surrounding us during the holidays, even stuffing eleven around my table for four (in the 7’x10′ dining room)! We have been so spoiled these last couple weeks. My parents […]
Now that the "give thanks" napkins are finished, it is time to move on to the place card for our family Thanksgiving table. I toyed with several ideas, but this one stuck. I am excited …
The troops have begun to gather. We've had my parent's company over this last weekend (they leave today), Dave's older sister and crew arrived late last night, his younger brother's wife and son landed this …
A few weeks ago, when I was in my funk of project overload, I was singing Milo to sleep one night. Every night I sing the same few songs, and one of them is "I …
First of all, let me welcome all new readers visiting from Four Flights of Fancy. I hope you find a cozy place here and stay awhile:) For those of you regulars, I am guest posting …
If you've been reading this blog for a while, you'll remember that we have used cloth diapers since Milo was a week old. We originally had a whole set of Bum Genius 3.0 diapers, and …
A month ago, my dear friend Cassi asked me to whip up a duvet for her son Bex's room. She had fallen in love with this perfect brown dot from Dwell Studios, which doesn't come in …
Saturday morning I won the Richmond Half Marathon. Just kidding. I did run it though, and finished two-minutes faster than my goal time. So it was sort of like winning my own little race with …
It was a good food week. Because Dave (once again) came up with all of the meal ideas so I didn't have to try to be creative. And because we began the week with absolutely …
How's your Halloween candy consumption going? Do you throw it all away after a week? Let your kids trade it for a toy? Or something different all together?We've just been eating it...slow and steady. Somehow, …
Today I'm going to begin a short series of posts about my trip with the boys to the Bay Area last week. Like I mentioned, it was a renewing trip for all of us. I …
I was excited to get back in the letterpress studio a couple weeks ago. This time, I was working on a calendar page for the annual Pyramid Atlantic Letterpress Calendar fundraiser. I was assigned my …
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