Honey

Last month at the Alameda flea market I came up with a couple of finds. One of them was an old grocery store sign that I put up on our daughter’s bedroom door.   Now everybody knows which room is hers. Just in case you couldn’t tell from the bright pink bathrobe and curtains. Honey …

Disco Neck

Saturday night we went to an old-school kegger that was actually a fundraiser for HotWheel’s preschool. The idea came from an elementary school here in town that throws one each year as their fall fundraiser. Everyone wears a college sweatshirt and it’s some serious fun, particularly for people like me who went to art school …

Flower Room

I’m sitting at the kitchen table, writing this post with my beautiful neighbor, who is 9. We’re going to tell you about the transformation of my daughter’s bedroom, which is being turned into a garden room this week. The first step was to pick a new color. Ten years ago, when my husband and I …

Lego Love

Despite having a veritable valentine production agency in our house for the past week – we made over 50 of them between our families, schools and teachers – do you think I have a photo to share? Nope. Someone should fire the production line manager. Oh wait – that’s me. Hm. So for want of …

Mardi Gras

We had some young friends over on Tuesday, and we decided that as it was Mardi Gras, it would be very wise of us to make some masks.  Here they are: Looks like that last mask spilled its wine all over the table before the photo shoot, doesn’t it? You’ve got to keep a close …