Flaming Pits of H-E-Double Hockey Sticks

We temporarily interrupt the last installment of the Lawrence trip to issue a heat advisory!   Heat indexes in the 100’s!  And I just got a call from my blueberry farmer friend who said the picking season will end next week, rather than around 4-5 weeks from now because of the heat wave.  If I [...]

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Journal Making

I wish that I could show you photos of the delightful people that were a part of this weekend.  It seems everyone has a bit of shyness when it comes to showing themselves publicly.  This blogging crowd likes to stay behind the scenes so to speak.  So, you get to see the things we worked on and made [...]

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Spider Silk

I’m still basking in the light of this weekend, sorting through my pictures and thoughts.  I took the bench with me to Lawrence and since it’s Bench Monday it seemed a fitting snippet from this weekend.  Right now the thought picture I have is of connections made that are as fine and strong and luminous [...]

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pARTy!!!!

This post would contain a bazillion exclamation points, if I didn’t have exlamation point overuse phobias.  I’m heading to Lawrence, Kansas in two hours!  Jen is taking her pARTy on the road to my neck of the woods.  Melinda  and I are driving up and meeting her for crafting, food and wine, picture taking, and who [...]

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Lake Weekend

I can only say that I hope you are spending as little time in front of this computer screen as I am.  Summer is here, and it is full, and frenzied and wonderful.  Go out and play!

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Summer Tips

This post is really dedicated to those of you have younger children.  Some of them could be translated or tweaked to work with older children or even yourselves.  A lot of these tips I got from a friend of a friend.
Set up a pad of paper and markers, pens and pencils right by the door.  [...]

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