My Shoestring Life

fun email

I got this beautiful and uplifting email from someone who had bought something from an ebay auction and it made me smile on the inside. I love that I get to connect with people far away, whom I’ve never met through my blog…that should keep me bloggin for quite a while.
“After receiving the napkins, I [...]

Is it Thursday, already?

(photo courtesy of Sammer the Hammer)
I’m afraid it is. And I don’t have much to show for it. Where has this week gone? Hmmm.
We walked around the lake behind my friend’s home on Monday. That was good fun followed by an afternoon nap. I love putting in a movie for Owen and laying with him [...]

trying to look

I’m trying to look at things differently.
A few issues ago, Simple Scrapbooks magazine did a review/summary on a book, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, which I have vowed I will read soon. One of the things they said in summary of what was I’m sure a lengthy chapter in [...]

Winter Blues

Today is Thursday and it is the first day since Monday when I haven’t felt just blue about it being so, well, wintery out there. No wonder people leave this state after Christmas and don’t come back until April. Snow is pretty. True. Hot chocolate is yummy. True. Schelping through the snow with toddlers is [...]

Sunroom redo

So, I didn’t get to sketching out a plan this week, but Saturday was the day for putting whatever plan I had into place. This is how we started our morning…

Clearing out the sunroom. It felt very Trading Spaces, except we did it in our pajamas and not those cute (hint: sarcasm) orange and blue [...]

Make time for creativity.

This is what this week has been about for me. I have way too much going on. (Don’t we all?) And, I’ve been feeling a little burned out by the overwhelming task of clearing out the inventory left at the store. I feel like the past two weeks have been full of: go to the [...]

It’s here!

My shipment of Ginger Pomelo arrived from Caldrea. I cannot even tell you how awesome this new fragrance is. It smells so refreshing and fresh I am immediately putting all of my half-used bottles of other fragrances on a shelf and replacing them with Ginger Pomelo. It is that good.
For all of us getting [...]

messy monday

Here is my makeshift command post. It’s a spillover from the kitchen planning desk, where our computer is stationed. I’ve got piles of stuff, loosely organized. Stuff that’s on ebay (auctions ending soon), stuff that’s going to DesignExchange (a home decor consignment store on Capitol Drive) and stuff that I bought for the blog. [...]

jr. photographer in residence

Owen is beginning to think it pretty cool that he can take pictures with our digital camera. Some are not half bad. It might be cool to see what his perspective on our house, his toys, his day would be if he got to carry a camera around for a day.

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