Public Safety Announcement

This post is officially brought to you by the letter “P”.   Peaches, Produce and a Public Safety Announcement regarding Poison Ivy.  The peaches are in high season right now, and I mean the good ones that come off the pit cleanly.   What a snoot I am – I also have to have mine peeled or [...]

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Boys of Summer

I can not speak for girls, but these are the things the boys of summer do:

catch tadpoles

play baseball

camp out
read, read, read
tape the spray nozzle at the kitchen sink into the on position so that when their mama turns on the kitchen tap she gets sprayed – bwahahaha
eat, and eat, and eat, and eat some more 
hang [...]

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papercut

When the studio is completed I hope to spend lots of time making papercuts.  Jan calls her studio Snippyville – I love it!   Previously I have used patterns, but I have wanted to branch out more into my own designs and so far this is the process I’ve come up with.  I’ve been wanting them [...]

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how to eat an elephant

I have been away from the computer except for dribs and drabs here and there because I’m in the process of eating an elephant.  If you are often overwhelmed, as I am, by all the projects that go along with owning a home you know of what I speak.  Usually I see them all before [...]

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Dutch Oven

For Father’s Day Brian got a Dutch oven.  The real deal, cast iron, heavy duty, 6 quart Dutch oven.  I’m certain we are going to be spoiled rotten with some campsite gourmet cooking now!  The best part – I’m not the cook!  The other night he decided to give it a trial run on the [...]

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pARTy pics

The second day of pARTy we all went to Aimee’s house, where about a dozen of us made soaps and lip balms,with instructions and supplies from Super Jen.  Amanda, tribal leader of Gourmet Nomads, brought these gorgeous cookies.  I also got to meet in person Heather, whose artwork and photographs I had been admiring on flickr [...]

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