Made By Humans
I am usually a planner by nature, but you wouldn’t know it lately. After writing a few weeks ago about how much I love to do lists and calendars, I haven’t been using either much recently. Facing two out-of-town trips, the end of school, the start of swim lessons and goodness knows what else, no […]
Last week I shared my fairy garden that I made for the girl, which she is still loving, by the way. I mentioned that I wanted to make a mini bunting, and I finally did. It’s super simple, irresistibly adorable and messy. You will have glue on every finger when it’s done. It will be […]
It’s been almost six months since I announced my quest to read more women authors. It has not been going well. In my defense, I started with a super-long book, The Tale of Genji, which took me exactly 100 days to read. Then I sailed through — and totally loved, by the way — Portrait […]
We’ve had an indoor fairy garden for a long time, but I always wanted to add an outdoor space where the girl could play in some dirt, have some special plants and a few fairies and fun things to play with. While husband was out of town recently I finally did it. This is a […]
It can be hard to know how to decorate for spring once Easter has come and gone. You don’t want to bust out the red, white and blue right away, but how can you bring a little spring inside without keeping out the Easter eggs for an unseemly amount of time? This little decoration for […]
It’s really good for adults to feel stupid from time to time. Or if not stupid, at least awkward. Painfully out of your depth. So excruciatingly new at something you’re not sure you’ll ever get it or that you even want to now that you’ve tried and it’s so. Hard. The Pain of Trying New […]
We have this sheet on our bed. I call it the cat blanket even though it’s clearly not a blanket. The sole purpose is to keep the cat’s hair, muddy paw prints and whatever else off the sheets we actually sleep on. It’s on the bed all day and off at night. Some months ago, […]