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Since I had two weeks off, and my boyfriend, Danny, also is off from school, we wanted to go somewhere fun, but also somewhere that didn’t cost a lot of money. California’s got a lot of great options, and I’m sure we’ll explore those more as we go, but we had our eyes set on:…
The View from Sunday, January 4,2015: Wrote down this song so Danny could learn to sing it. We sang it all the time as kids, and when it’s a birthday for one of the kids in our family, we all call that one and sing it. Thought it was about time Danny got used to…
Ok, so I love New Year’s. Or maybe I just love the tradition I started a few years back of writing myself a letter to open the next year. I thought, for my first FREE ART project of 2015, I should share this with others. So eight of these got sprinkled around downtown Santa Cruz.…
Hi everyone! Kidlit Tea Party time! Not sure what it is? Click here to find out. Last month, my goal was: to write or revise for 30 minutes a day, or #WriteDaily30 if you’re on twitter. It’s a challenge Linda Urban came up with. Her post about it is here, mine is here. And how…
I have a Little Free Library. It’s not official, and you sort of can’t get into it right now. My library’s in a filing cabinet that’s being supported by a cheap ikea table that got wet and is failing. So the fence in front of my house is not a bit taller than the drawer,…
Ok, I’ve done some knitting before. Mostly scarves and the occasional gnome. (I was training to be a Waldorf teacher. Gnomes are important!) Once I knit a few things, I actually hopped over to crochet, and started making hats, bags, blankets, and the occasional finger puppet. For some reason, I decided I wanted to knit…
I can’t remember where I saw the idea to make a photo advent calendar, but I knew I wanted to right away. A way to look back over the year? So fun. Even more fun now that Danny and I are in the same place. For 8 months out of the year we were on…
Hey guys! You know me, can’t resist a contest. So when I saw this one on Facebook (Thanks, Emily!) I couldn’t resist. It’s put on by the Scottish Book Trust. Each month, there’s a prompt or a picture to get you going. Find out more about the idea here. This month, it was this photo:…
This week, Around here we’re: Celebrating. Danny’s done school until the end of January. I’m really proud of him for doing such a good job even though this is his first time in college, and he’s been out of school since high school. He got all his work done and expects to get great grades.…
First, thanks everyone who reads this blog for being flexible. If you’ve been here a while, you know I’m all about trying new things. If you’re new here, well, I just told you 🙂 I’m also not a fan of continuing to do things that I don’t like doing. Of course I still have to…