Flowers

Flowers

Just because they're making me happy.  Hydrangeas come from a friend's beautiful garden.  The rest are gifts from my students, which makes them even more beautiful (sorry, I know it's cheesy, but it's true). In my bedroom By my bed In the...
Flowers

Birthday goodness

It was my birthday on Thursday, but we celebrated it last night.  It was a small thing, a handful of good friends was all we could handle after the last couple of months, with constant trips upstate to check on my husband's parents, my parents' visit and...

Praying for Chile

I lived in Chile for three years, I was planning to stay for one school year and I loved it so much I stayed for three.  I only left because the travel between southern and northern hemispheres was too complicated.I have very good friends there and I can't...
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Snow day

I am a preschool teacher, since my oldest was born I started working part time and I am home at one.  Every day except Wednesday, when I don't make it home till almost five to find tired, cranky and clingy boys.  Every Wednesday except today! ...

And here we go…

Well, here starts my little attempt to give back to the online crafts community from which I have taken so much over the last few years. I started out my homemaking life a few years ago armed with a wealth of knowledge passed down by generations of women but very...