Posted in Making Crafts!, tagged craft, paper wallets, Richard Scarry on November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
I came across a tutorial for making paper wallets. I don’t need a new wallet, certainly not a paper one; yet, when I saw this “how-to” I found that I had-to. Luckily Tony appreciates the finished product and is going to try using one. I used a musty old Richard Scarry book that we hold onto for craft purposes. We are [...]
Posted in Making Crafts!, tagged craft, fabric, gift, tree on November 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Thanks to Soulemama for alerting me to this quick and fun craft from The Small Object blog. I had to make these right away. I added to the design by putting felted tree toppers on them, a small loop and a message with a holiday greeting. My plan is to hang them on in-town friends’ [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged historic home, Uncategorized on November 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Last night I went to our neighborhood association meeting. A speaker from the Historic Commission was there to talk about the process for putting your home on the historic home registry. She suggested we contact the state archive office for further information. I went home and sent off an email to them right away. This [...]
Posted in One Volunteer Hospice Worker, tagged medicare, One Volunteer Hospice Worker on November 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Here is a link for an article in today’s New York Times about how Medicare’s restrictive guideline that hospice patients have to be diagnosed with 6 months or less to live in order to receive benefits is damaging the hospice movement. Since the majority on hospice are now suffering from Alzheimer’s, dementia and general decline, doctors aren’t able to [...]
Posted in Making Crafts!, tagged burp cloths, embroidery, I Am A Sewing Machine on November 27, 2007 | No Comments »
This is one of the projects I am working on. I’m making a bunch of baby burp cloths to sell. I prepped all the fabric weeks ago, but have procrastinated the embroidery and machine sewing until now. As soon as I started doing the hand-stitching I got really excited and didn’t want to stop–funny how that works. Anyway, [...]
Posted in Gardening, Making Crafts!, My Art Projects, tagged art process, felt, Gardening on November 27, 2007 | No Comments »
The sun is out and Mogs and I had to play in it. I love to garden and have an unwieldy yard to fiddle around in. We went out to trim stems off our grape arbor and red-twig dogwood for wreaths, and ended up separating and replanting our Lily bulbs. I think both gardening and art making [...]
Posted in Motherhood, tagged Christmas, family, Santa, tradition, Uncategorized on November 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Tony and I are trying to figure out what traditions we would like to pass down to Mogs. Will it be Christmas=Santa or Christmas=Baby Jesus? Tony does a great job describing his thoughts on his blog, endlessly rocking. I am partial to celebrating the Solstice and connecting it to Christmas. Jesus was born and birth is a [...]
Posted in My Art Projects, That Lady Can Paint, Sew, Sculpt..., tagged Ann Wolff, art process, glass art on November 26, 2007 | No Comments »
All the magazines I read are from the library, so they are always from a few months back. I came across an American Craft magazine with an interesting article about Ann Wolff from the June/July 2007 edition. She is primarily a glass artist but doesn’t limit herself to one medium. In working with glass she [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged corsets, mothering, Uncategorized on November 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Posted in One Volunteer Hospice Worker, Postpartum Info, tagged depression, One Volunteer Hospice Worker, resources, suicide on November 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Tonight I volunteered at our hospice’s rememberance service for the people who have passed away in the past year. It was moving to see so many people there, all sharing the experience of losing someone they love. I’ve lost many people in my life, including all of my grandparents and several siblings. The one loss that I [...]
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