The Persistence of Memory

On memories, the people we miss and writing their stories.

I’m not going to get all “Glory Days” on you, but the more I think about it, 1996 was the year when everything happened. My senior year in high school was also the year I started dating my husband. My grandmother and one of my favorite teachers died. There was the pain of not being […]

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Make a Creativity Station

Make a creativity station to keep tools handy where you use them.

I’ve been trying to keep my desk cleared off more often than not (daily just does not work for me), but part of the problem is that my craft supplies live in my closet, which is across the room from my desk. It’s literally seven steps away, but it feels like too much of a […]

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Bottle Cap Bead Magnets

Easy craft bottle cap magnets

We regularly have people over on Sunday nights, and this past Sunday I noticed a bottle cap on the counter and decided I wanted to use it in some kind of craft. It also happens that not too long ago (when I taught sewing at the girl’s school) I had cleaned out some of my […]

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Make a Place for Ideas

how to make a place for ideas

I was going through a basket of stuff over the weekend, that was supposed to be a place to keep important things and ended up being a place where everything I didn’t want on my desk ended up. Amid six months of knitting magazines, bank statements and random stuff from school, there were notes.  Ideas. […]

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Rock Painting

rock painting

Yesterday I told you while you were out gathering leaves to paint that you should pick up a rock, too. We’re going to use it today in a simple rock painting activity. All you need for this one is a rock, some paint and a paintbrush or two.  I decided mine kind of looked like […]

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Make Art with a Leaf

Making art with leaves is fun and simple.

The girl likes to pick things up outside, like most kids do, and I sometimes have trouble just throwing them back outside even though she doesn’t ever notice if I do. Which explains why this giant magnolia leaf has been in our house for a few months now. I decided I wanted to do something […]

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