Discovering the Creative World Around Us
In my family, we have ALWAYS had a garden. When I was a little girl, we would plant and tend all kinds of vegetables. My favorite memories include potato pickin'. When it was time to dig the potatoes in the fall, our neighbor would bring a small tractor from his farm to help turn over the rows. All of us, four households of neighbors, would follow behind him and Continue reading
We are back! Many happenings have occurred in our hiatus. Susan prepped and sold a house within two weeks. YAY for Susan selling her house so quickly. Boo for me because I am losing my next door neighbor. What was I doing, I was studying for my exams. Yes I am in a graduate Master of Taxation program and couldn’t think of anything else except my exams. I Continue reading
I have a hard time finding cute magnets. For Christmas I made (actually my husband made, because you are talking to the NOT ME person) a magnet board for my mom. Of course I wanted to get her some cute magnets for her board, but I couldn’t find any I really liked. While I was talking to Susan about it, she said she could make some! Afterwards, she made some Continue reading
We all buy things at random not really knowing what we will do with them at the time of purchase. Come on---'fess up. You know you have done that at least once or twice. For me, this time, it was ribbon. I'm a real sucker where ribbon is concerned. The colors were so pretty and delicate. I could picture myself using it. Well, it turned out that I really Continue reading
Do you ever get nostalgic for the toys you had as a kid? Many toys today are noisy and provide passive entertainment instead of using active imagination. You don’t see many children today playing with Silly Putty, Slinky, a deck of cards or just good old fashion paper dolls. This concern about the toy market being flooded with electronic toys, video games, and Continue reading
