I read a post recently by Emily at Remodeling This Life about Tips for Making Thrift Shopping Thrifty. In that article she gives some hints for thrift shopping and says that it’s a running joke that she is the thrift shopping queen. While reading that it brought to mind my garage sale baby. No, I didn’t […]
The official review and first chapter of this book will be Thursday, May 15, but I’m excited about this book and couldn’t wait to tell you how great I think it is. It’s the book I wish I had as a teen. It’s the book I wish I had when I was a mother of […]
In days to come the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills: all the nations shall stream to it. Many peoples shall come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of […]
Last Saturday I told you about Women’s Clothing Month at Sew, Mama, Sew! Monday they started with the vintage smock sew along and the remainder of this week has been focused on patterns. They helped us take the mystery out of patterns and given us tips for working with patterns. Today I’m going to share some links […]
In my post about meeting my financial goals for 2008, I told you I was going to think RED to reduce the expense and hassle of Christmas this year. I’ve already started conditioning my family to think red by starting with birthdays. What red am I talking about? Chinese red. Beautiful, ornate Chinese red. It […]
While writing about the contest at Scribbit in which I entered my z-coil post, an embryo of another article was conceived. I began looking back at how shoes tell the story of my life. Like most other people, I was born barefoot. I know that at some point shortly after that those cute little feet were forced […]
The Carnival of Financial Goals is up over at Debt Free Revolution. I’ve entered my post 2008 Financial Goals Nearly Met. Check out the carnival for some good posts, and feel free to make nice comments about my post as well as the others. Thanks to all my readers. I appreciate you taking time out […]
We try to hide our skeletons in the closet, but every now and again we bump up against them and the bones rattle. I’m not going to ask you if you have a skeleton in your closet. We all do. Sometimes there’s just a bone or two and sometimes there’s an entire closet full of bones. carp(e) […]
I’ve been looking over a very tempting read. It’s a special issue of Electronic House featuring the best homes of the year. This is not a magazine I normally read. In fact, this is the first time ever that I’ve seen it. I only managed to read it about halfway before my mind went on […]
Scribbit is having a shoe contest! Bet you can’t guess what the shoes have to do to win. Bet you can guess what the prize will be. In order to win the shoes have to inspire a marvelous post about (all together now) SHOES. And when the winner is announced, the prize will be (all […]