Category Archives: Holidays

Post Christmas Report

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I hope that if you do celebrate Christmas you had a wonderful day yesterday! We sure did. It was just the four of us, and I’m afraid that I didn’t get very good pictures this year. But we all had a grand time! Logan, at 10 years old, was able to hold off the pre-Christmas…

Merry Christmas to All!

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I’ve got a mound of wrapping to do, but I wanted to take a moment to say thanks so much for being here with me. The support I get from all you lovely folks is awesome, you are all inspirational for me! And if you don’t celebrate Christmas, I’d like to wish you Peace and…

Molasses Crinkle Cookie Recipe

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I’ve been baking up a whole mess of Christmas cookies, and these molasses crinkles are Santa’s favorite! (Really! A few years ago Logan made him a questionairre with checkboxes and left it with the plate of cookies, and Santa chose the crinkles as his favorite. So although I may swap out other cookies from time…

Candy Claus Checking in on Her List

Don’t forget, entry into my Hand Dyed Scarf Giveaway ends today (Friday) at 5 pm. Wahoo! I gave my last final today. I’ve got one exam to grade, some final grades to calculate and then it’s Christmas Vacation! I need to check in with my Candied Fabrics to-do list, and then make a Candy Claus…

Open Studio This Sunday, 10 AM – 5 PM

Today I’m still sewing, but tomorrow I’ll turn into a baking, decorating fool, and hope that lots of folks turn up on Sunday. I am participating in a Holiday Studio Tour with four other artists from the Redlands area. We will all have our studios open to share our process with interested folk. We will also…

Bird Ornaments for a School Fundraiser

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My son Logan’s 5th grade class at Smiley Elementary School has been raising money all year to help offset the cost of attending science camp this spring. I made several bird ornaments to be sold in their “Holiday Store”, which was stocked with all sorts of homemade goods priced so that kids could come and buy gifts…

Famous Last Words!

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I totally jinxed myself! Earlier this week I wrote that maybe this would be the year that it didn’t take a week for me to recover from vacation! HAH! I’ve got a nasty head cold and I spent Tuesday through Thursday in a POGIL  workshop, desperately trying to pay attention. I’ve got some meetings scheduled for…

Post from the East Coast

Just popping in to say hi! Logan and I have been busy busy with my family here in massachusetts. Logan and uncle Chris: Uncle Jibber has two lobster pots, there was actually a lobster in it but it was a she so we had to throw her back. I had some incredibly delicious fried scallops…

One for the road!

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Holy Moly! I kinda dropped off the map, didn’t I? Well I’ve been busy busy picking up Andrew and Liam from the big airport (LAX – ugh! Usually we’re able to fly in and out of a smaller airport that’s much closer to home) after their big adventure. My Droid broke (thank GOD for my…

Snapshots from our Easter

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How was your Easter? We had a great day yesterday! (Edit: Before I forget, my giveaway ends tonight – head over to enter if you haven’t yet!) For the first time in forever, Andrew did NOT have a Sunday morning Easter gig (even churches feel the economic downturn!). So he got to SEE the kids participate…

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