It might not have made the top of the news hour for all of you, but the Silver Bandits played their final games of the year on Saturday. They did really well, making it all the way to the championship game before coming in second in their most injury-prone game of the season. I know …
Category Archives: Making
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 …
More Paper Flowers
A couple of paper posies for some great friends. One was a little more arty and recycled, the other was pink crepe. As I was making the crepe paper roses I first thought Boy! These are fun and easy to make! Who knew? Then I thought – I know who knew… every person who’s …
Paper Bouquet
There are certain catalogs that I just can’t bear to throw away because of the imagery and paper quality. We have a whole collection of stock photo company catalogs that I mine for images when I make cards and luggage tags, and I keep stacks of magazines that use nice heavy paper and great photography. …
Make it Snappy
We made gingersnaps yesterday, and frankly they were a little melodramatic. You should have seen the list of demands – the organic sugar, the extra dark molasses, the stark lighting – and they pitched a fit when we didn’t have the right stylist for them. (It was just me, and they were so totally …
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 …
The Flower Room Grows
Well it’s been a busy week. We finished up the painting in the garden room, and all the furniture was replanted with a few edits. Here’s her new desk area – I found an old bulletin board in the garage and painted it with her room paints. Ditto with the little drawers from IKEA – …
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 …