Disclosure: I’m a member of Petit Jean’s Blue Diamond Club, which means they send me meat and other goodies and I write about it. I told everyone last week that I’ve finally hit the blogging big time because I got paid in meat. All opinions are my own, of course. May is a pretty darn crazy time in my family. ... Read More »
Disclosure: Heather sent me a digital review copy of her book so I could write about it. I’m not much of a fiction writer, but I’ve always enjoyed concocting stories about strangers. I love imagining how that single running shoe ended up in the middle of the street, where that woman on the airplane is going, what life is like ... Read More »
(Disclaimer: I was given this book by my friend, Rachel, who wrote it, in the hope that I would review it. She didn’t ask me to say nice things. I am not now nor do I ever plan on being pregnant again, but I may hand this book off to the next first-time mom I see.) When I was pregnant ... Read More »
I came home from BlissDom with a lot of books, and the one I read first was the one I got last, Jon Acuff’s Start. (The title made me do it.) It hasn’t been released yet but they did a special printing for BlissDom, which made us all feel special. This isn’t really a review of the book, though I ... Read More »
It’s cold and rainy today, the first day in what I hope is the last stretch of cold, rainy weather before the warm spring weather really sticks around. We’ve had flashes, and the clover is out so at least our yard is green, but we’re definitely in that transition period. It’s a time when it’s kind of hard to believe ... Read More »
I have always wanted to be a person who does scrapbooking. Even before I had a kid, every couple of years I would decided I was going to be the kind of person who scrapbooks. I’d go to Hobby Lobby (when it was the only choice in town) and load up on paper, stickers, whatever I thought would make me ... Read More »
In this house, we read a lot of books. Some of them you might not have heard of. Your kids might like them, too. Or not. In this occasional series I’ll share our current favorites, and maybe occasionally ones that we didn’t love so much. I accidentally opened a box that had some Christmas presents in it near the Bit ... Read More »
This year I’m taking part in a secret Santa ornament swap (well, I guess it’s only secret until Monday, when we all blog about what we got). I has a lot of trouble coming up with exactly what I wanted to create for my recipient. Knitting something probably would have made sense, but I didn’t have any particular inspiration. I ... Read More »
I’m not a particularly good housekeeper, but I am trying to do better. Lately I’ve been trying to stick to a schedule of working in different rooms on different days of the week, as well as staying on top of the handwash dishes (mostly pots, pans and good knives) that seem to get out of control almost instantly. Monday is ... Read More »
The other day I went to Target, as I often do, and I cruised down the craft aisles, as I almost always do, just to see if anything great is on sale (they have really good clearance prices on stickers from time to time, for instance) and I came across the Kid Made Modern line of craft supplies they’re carrying. ... Read More »
At the Craft Gossip Fork & Talk I attended recently, one of the activities we did was to start working on one of the embroidery kits that was included in our goodie bags. This is a Dimensions Crafts Java Coaster/Cozy, which the company’s website tells me retails for $14.29 but I think I saw the leaf ones (which I think ... Read More »
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