Now that we’re going to be landlords, we have to make sure that everything actually works in the house. I’ve been far more preoccupied with how pretty everything is, but renters don’t care so much about the stuff I made to hang on the walls, they just want things to work when they need them. […]
[Continue reading...]2010 Year of Pleasures #13
March 30, 2010
Don’t you wish *anything* made you this happy as an adult? Oh wait. I can think of one thing, and he loves bubbles.
[Continue reading...]I can talk freely now
March 29, 2010
For the past few weeks it’s been killing me to be prudent. I’m so used to using this space as the place I pour my heart out, that when something came along I really couldn’t talk about publicly, I almost didn’t know how to process it. It was like trying to talk with my hands […]
[Continue reading...]Textured Canvas
March 26, 2010
In all my home improvement and decor projects, the one area I’ve been seriously neglecting is all my naked walls. I have some ideas for them, but they have been pushed down to the bottom of the priority list over and over again. It’s time I pay my poor walls some attention. The biggest empty […]
[Continue reading...]Spring in San Diego
March 25, 2010
I finally got outside to do the garden maintenance I had been putting off, and once I pulled out all of the poppies that had sprouted from last year’s seeds, I found these little lettuce buds hiding underneath. These will be a nice little treat to eat while I’m waiting for the rest of my […]
[Continue reading...]Our Visions, Our Voices
March 24, 2010
Monday night I spent nearly four hours in the car to attend a reading by Mormon women writers. Some of these women were new to me, some of them were my heroes, and I got to sit and listen to the words that belied the most tender feelings of their hearts. Joanna Brooks, that smoking […]
[Continue reading...]2010 Year of Pleasures #12
March 23, 2010
I totally poached this little sculpture from my inlaw’s house. Well, I couldn’t bring myself to outright swipe it, so I really just wandered around their house for a day saying, “Wow, I sure do like this sculpture! It was just sitting in a drawer in the guest room. It sure would look nice at […]
[Continue reading...]Glimpse of the future
March 22, 2010
A few weeks ago PBS showed a recording of the Broadway play “Passing Strange.” Bear and I both really love musical theater, but we don’t get to go much anymore, and we certainly don’t get to see something new and groundbreaking like “Passing Strange.” We’re happy and grateful when we get to see the occasional […]
[Continue reading...]Happy Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day!
March 20, 2010
Cerebral Palsy is a brain injury that occurs either during pregnancy or shortly after birth. There are many causes: problems during pregnancy, infection, brain bleeds, traumatic birth, and as in Atti’s case, oxygen deprivation. Whatever the cause, the damage inflicted to the brain is in the area that governs motor skills. The brain works like […]
[Continue reading...]Decorated Door
March 19, 2010
Before: After: AHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhh. It feels SO good to get that project done. I don’t know why this one bothered me so dang much. I guess because it was so in my face all the time, but that dang door just made me NUTS! Now this inadvertent focal point is actually something worth looking at. Interestingly […]
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