Paris Card

I’ve missed being at my art table making cards.  Today I had a birthday card to make and decided to use my Paris stamp set by Cavallini Papers & Co.  I wanted something a bit youthful and trendy so I thought of this stamp set.  I used blue and brown polka dot paper and ribbon [...]

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Real Baby Doll

This baby doll seems to frighten everyone who comes to our house. I can’t imagine why…she is real you know!

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A Day of Hope

Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise up against an empire; what led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation; what led young women and young men to sit at lunch counters and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom’s cause. Hope is [...]

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Winter Soup

Soup is a lot like a family.  Each ingredient enhances the others;
each batch has its own characteristics;
and it needs time to simmer to reach full flavor.-Marge Kennedy
On winter weekends, I love to make a pot of soup.  I turn on some lovely music, chop all the ingredients together and put it in [...]

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Sacred Life Sunday: Grandparent’s

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance.  They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life.  And, most importantly, cookies.  ~Rudolph Giuliani

It must be  a sweet thing to be a child in your grandparent’s home.  Adoration, love, spoiling and yes…cookies. I  never knew my grandparent’s very well.  One [...]

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Roses in Winter

God gave us memory so that we may have roses in December

The pacific northwest woke this morning to another gray and cold foggy morning.  Even though it is cold and miserable, we still are more comfortable than many parts of the states this week.  I’ve been enjoying June garden walks at lilacs and rosesso [...]

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A Good Read: The Shack

Yesterday I was just in the mood for a good book.  I stopped by our public library and they had a whole stack of the novel The Shack by William P. Young out on display.  At first I wasn’t sure if I could bear to read it, although I had heard it was good.  It [...]

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The Little Things

Sometimes it’s the little things that fill you with thanks…the dog stretched out asleep on the sofa, a pot of  soup simmering on the stove, a warm bed with clean flannel sheets at the end of the day.  We have had torrential rain this week in the pacific northwest.  I have watched with sadness as [...]

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Need Help With Your Website?

I am pleased to announce that my son Tyler is launching a new business,
Pike Street Media It is a web site design and hosting company.  He has his degree in web site design and development and has spent the last several years managing one of the largest Internet research websites in the industry.  His business [...]

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Decorating the Porch

The word for Creative Everyday this month is play.  I had more fun playing on my porch by decorating it for winter! I took down all the Christmas decorations this weekend and went shopping with the Christmas money my mother always gives me for a new wreath for the porch. I found one on clearance, [...]

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