A Creative Log & Other Notes on Life
From the monthly archives:
When I spotted this pair of boys pinstripe pirate shorts a while back the first thing I thought was “how cute would those be if they were a girls skirt with embroidered flowers instead of boys shorts” (still adjusting to being a mom of a boy I guess). While the skirt refashioning got finished shortly […]
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A quiet evening on the trail. Riding, sweating, laughing and getting dirty with the girls. Get your head out of the gutter, boys. 🙂
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A fun Pioneer Day craft.
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Calico bonnets just in time for Pioneer Day.
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I loved reading this little blurb on Sugar City Journal’s new store website: As a new bride about eleven years ago I was visiting my in-laws in Virginia (yes, Lynne’s parents!). The women’s organization at church -the Relief Society – was hand-knitting bandages for lepers. Wanting to learn how to knit, I signed up for […]
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I know. I know. I know. We’re getting her speech therapy and then maybe singing lessons. image via flickr
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Baby Brother loves “playing” with his spit-up diapers (ie: holding, grabbing, sucking and staring). So I made him this little taggie blankie in baby viewable colors and pattern. Don’t you love seeing babies go all crossed-eyed in concentration! P.S. I made one but cut two. The other will go up in the shop today.
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Throw in a couple hot dogs roasted over the fire and this campout meal couldn’t get much more satisfying. It’s a perfect meal to make ahead of time and heat up the first night at camp. Want a vegetarian chili? This one is YUMMY! Ingredients: 2 pounds lean ground beef 1 1/2 cups chopped onion […]
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Our year-round school starts today. Last Friday the girl at Office Depot reminded us that it was our last day of summer and told us we should be spending it at the beach. So I called up DH at work and we met him at Ruby’s at the end of the pier for dinner.
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Pumpkin couldn’t stop talking about going down the campground waterslides with her cousins on our last day at camp. When I saw the sign “Riders must be 3 years old”, we decided to hold an impromptu birthday party for her while waiting in line to buy our tickets. As confusion turned to excitement (“I’m three! […]
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