I love summer break and the freedom to go and do as we please, but there are times when that loose scheduling really hampers my own big ideas. I’ve been tossing around a design in my head for little lunch money wallets (and bigger versions for bigger folks) for weeks now. I actually thought about […]
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A friend and former co-worker gifted me with a load of silk fabric samples. I love the feel and weight of the fabric and designed a couple of new wallet styles to suit them. Manipulating silk and the vast array of colors makes me just giddy–a nice return from a two-week vacation. Funny how a
Is it just me or is Women’s Health using teenagers to promote an article on bringing the ‘sexy’ back into a relationship? Really, how old are these two? 14? Maybe 16? Seeing these two young’uns just makes me think of my kids, and while I know that’s where they came from, I don’t like thinking
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Summer again–the perfect time to do a bit of reading. That’s what I think every year and yet, every summer comes and goes without me doing nearly the amount of reading I’d like to do. Usually I set a lofty goal of a book every two weeks, but that hasn’t happened since I could justify
I’d had brilliant plans to return to Vietnam this year–go with a group of girlfriends, show off my favorite cities, visit with my beloved orphan friends (oh, how I still miss Lan and Tu!)–but one job loss after another thwarted those plans. It was too much money, too much time away from my kids. I
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My son graduated from high school one week ago and I am remain awestruck by the passage of time, the morphing of our family dynamics, the possibilities that lie ahead of him. We all say it: Where did the time go? It doesn’t seem like twelve years since I snapped this photo of him, standing
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Our little trio is growing up. Four years since the picture in our banner was taken, the kids have grown taller and wiser and this past weekend we celebrated the culmination of a dozen years of public school for Stuart at his graduation. Yes, indeed, my son–the one and only Stuart–has graduated from high school.
I don’t know why I find it so appealing, but I do. This particular tag was on nearly every car. Also…I really, really wanted to hop this train instead of waiting patiently to cross.
I finished twelve wallets, taking pics along the way to show how they are constructed. Nice pictures, taken outside in the two days of sun we had here in Portland. And then when Monday afternoon came around, it was time to upload those pictures and list the wallets on Etsy, write a post about the
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If you know me at all, you know that I’ve been sharing housing for years now. Literally. Our trio had our own place until 2006 when I decided that having exchange students staying with us would be a nice introduction to both Asian culture and house-sharing. That summer we shared our place with five students,
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