Getting Ready for Little Visitors

The porch is ready, Olivia’s bee costume is ready, (but she isn’t too keen on wearing it) I bought several hundred pieces of bubble gum to pass out, apple cider is ready to be warmed on the stove. I think we are all ready for the trick or treaters tonight.  In our small town we [...]

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Sweet Autumn Cards

Autumn cards are just so much fun.  I found this cute stamp called “Winter Tree” from Amuse Art Stamps.  You can buy from them online, or if you are in the Seattle area, they have a store here. What is so cute about this stamp is you can use it for Halloween by leaving it [...]

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Fall Cards and Apple Pie

I received a card from Pam over at Stamping with Serendipity.  She is an incredible card designer and I am always inspired by her creations.  We did a card exchange this week with a fall theme. Pam says the tree stamp is from Hero Arts and the little sentiment she found at Michaels for a [...]

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Sacred Life Sunday: Planting for Spring

“Of all the wonderful things in the universe of God, nothing seems more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the results thereof.”
Julie Moir Messerly

Even though autumn is my favorite season, I have found myself looking towards spring, and thinking of planting bulbs so I will have spring  [...]

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The Gift of a Handmade Card

One of my dearest friends that I have known since our children were little is a Baha’i.  One of the things I appreciate about our friendship is we respect that we view life differently spirituality and yet have a strong spiritual friendship.  Gosh…that sounds kind of like a dichotomy, but it’s true!  And perhaps if [...]

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Sacred Life Sunday: Marriage

This is my beloved, this is my friend-Song of Songs 5:16
Tomorrow my beloved, and I will celebrate 30 years together.  In one way I just can’t believe it’s been so long.  Then I look at who I was then, and who I am now and all the changes we have had, and I can believe [...]

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Old Homes

Old homes have a soul and spirit.  You don’t choose them, they choose you and invite you to become a part of them, to reveal the beauty in them, and to give a part of your soul to them.-Gayle Roberts
I was chatting with my girlfriend today on the phone about the blog pictures of [...]

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New Old Home

We have spent an entire summer working hard on our old home.  It is a craftsman built in the 30’s with tons of work needing to be done.  This summer we tore out the broken sidewalk and put pavers in, we hired major structural work to be done under the house replacing rotted beams, (and [...]

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Sacred Life Sunday: Experiencing Healing Through Creativity

A big welcome to all my Clearbrook readers! Keeping up with two blogs has been a bit much, so I am merging Clearbrook with Mountain Moma.  Watch for monthly articles on experiencing healing.  This article was written several weeks ago for Clearbrook.
As fall approaches the pacific northwest, cloudy rainy days are here again.  They always [...]

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Autumn in Washington State

I know I am partial, but there is just nothing prettier than autumn in the mountains.  This week we had company from out of town, and took a trip through the mountains to Leavenworth and over to the apple orchards. (You simply must click the pictures for a close up of the autumn pics!)  All [...]

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