March is one of my favorite months. It’s right around the time that Spring begins to peek her head out behind the colder temperatures, it’s Women’s History Month, it contains International Women’s Day, it contains my birthday, and given St. Patrick’s Day, it’s typically an Irish “flavored” month! All lucky things, to my way of thinking. So, as you may expect, my Bullet Journal takes … Continue reading Luck Be a Lady
New year, new months, new weeks, new days, and all with the potential of being important, impactful, influential. Magic can happen at any time, right? Even the anticipation of something amazing coming your way can make each day special! I have decided to approach this year with the term “I want…” I want to improve my mental and physical health. I want to improve my kitchen skills. I want … Continue reading The Magic of New Beginnings
If you think about it, December is a month of contradictions – Looking back at the year that has almost passed; Looking forward to the year that’s just around the corner. And over all of that, the festive feeling of a holiday coming our way. I look forward to Christmas! I love to decorate the main rooms of my house, I enjoy lighting the candles … Continue reading It Feels Like Christmas
A number of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to take a girls’ trip about 4 hours or so north, to one of my favorite places – an Island found in Lake Michigan. It’s a truly relaxing place, and I have the benefit of spending time there due to a good friend welcoming us to her family’s home for the weekend. It’s a gorgeous island, … Continue reading Islands and Hobbies
I’m already well behind the goal that I had made for this year, in that I haven’t posted to my site once a week. We’ll just chalk that up to ridiculously busy with my day job, and not a lot of time/energy to spend with crafts or recipes. I’ll see what I can do about changing that soon, okay? In the meantime, to take my … Continue reading Like a Kid Again
I went on a trip with a friend of mine who we’ll call CS and a friend of hers to an island recently, and within a week, she’d put together a scrapbook of the whole experience, and made it available to both of us. She gathered pictures that all three of us had taken of the whole weekend, and put it all together in that … Continue reading Pictures, Pictures Everywhere
My craft room typically gets destroyed by Christmas preparations. First it’s getting the gifts done, and then it’s getting everything off of the table so that I can wrap all the gifts. And I do mean ALL the gifts. Add in the gifts made for the China colleagues, and the proximity of those projects with the crazy stuff going on at work, and my craft … Continue reading Last chance to organize
How many times have you looked at an item online or at a store, and thought, “I can probably make that pretty easily.” Such was the case with this particular craft. A friend sent me a message, with a picture of a Christmas tree made out of wine corks. It was an item that could be purchased, and was cute, but since MM had recently … Continue reading Corky Christmas Trees
One of my goals this year is to reorganize my craft room. Again. It’s not in a horrible state, outside of the after effects of the Christmas season. Well, that, and the crazy mood I got into on January 2nd to make a new lunch bag (pail) for myself. It’s like a whirlwind in there. I’d decided to start with the cabinet that holds all … Continue reading Downsizing?
This is a couple weeks belated, but I completed the last Weekender bag that’s been on my list this year. This one was for T, my mom. It turned out really, really well, and I’m happy with the modifications that were put into this last one. I think I’ve landed on all the final version that I’ll be making in the future, should I make … Continue reading Weekender Bag #4 Complete!
