It is Thanksgiving, and I am so excited to begin a new tradition with my growing little family… a gratitude journal. A friend of mine, Jess, who blogs at Brixton Lane, shared the idea about a week ago on her blog, and I absolutely loved it. I didn’t have much time to throw one together (especially since it’s not possible for me […]
1. We took Cora to the beach (well, the harbor) on Monday. Our friends that we spent the holiday with live in Point Loma about five minutes (walking) to the ocean. Matt and I aren’t huge beach people, so we haven’t been to the ocean ALL SUMMER! We walked down to the harbor and let Cora […]
Have I mentioned that I love to paint? Can’t say I’m really all that great at it… I can’t actually paint “stuff” (people, objects, landscapes), but I can cover a canvas with abstract nothingness well enough. My husband and I have very modern tastes in art, so abstract works for us. I have several of my own paintings hung in my home […]
Though I rarely have time to do it, I love scrapbooking! After a long, long scrapbooking draught, my friend, Alison, invited me to a crop night that she frequently attends. We went last Friday night and had a blast! The crop night was held in the garage of a Creative Memories consultant that Alison knows. I’m sure when I said garage, you pictured […]
When I was a little girl, my mom made me a doll… from scratch. She had brown yarn for hair, hand-made clothes… a mauve colored dress with small flowers, embroidered face details, everything so detailed, so intricately made just for me. I loved it to pieces… really. It ended up thrashed by the time I outgrew toys. I loved a lot of things […]
