Category: Around the House

Hi there.  I sure do time my vacations well.  You wouldn't believe the hoops I had to jump through to get four days off work so I could stay home and sew.  Didn't happen.  The sewing that is.  Oh, I stayed home all right.  In my bed!  This was the cold virus of all cold […]

We had quite enough drama for our Christmas, thank you very much.  On Christmas Eve, our personal Santa (my DH) fell down and hit his head on a table and had to go to the hospital for stitches.  He is OK now, but it was very chaotic for awhile there.  You see, my daughter and […]

In the name of all of us who left things until the last minute, I would like to say "Thank God for Amazon.com".  Don't know exactly how it happened, but Christmas kind of snuck up on me this year.  The shopping part anyway.  I am happy to say however, that the shopping got done in […]

I forgot to show you a picture of The Bowl.  I stopped at Pottery Barn on the way home from work yesterday and picked up some do dads to put in it.  I love the simplicity and shape of this bowl so much.  Seriously, this bowl must weigh over five pounds!  And Mary Ann carried […]

I had a little accident yesterday.  I was drinking my morning coffee while I read my email and somehow managed to knock my cup over and spill coffee all over my laptop keyboard. Ooops.  It started making a terrible crackling noise and then…   No, it didn't burst into flames like the one in the picture above, but […]

My sister Andrea had a great picture on her blog post today.  October Gave A Party was the title of her blog post.  It's the first line in a poem by George Cooper called "October's Party".  It's October people!  How the heck did that happen, I ask you?  Sheesh.  The picture in Andrea's post is […]

Time to get out the end of summer, transition into fall decorations people. I just bought this cool plate at Williams Sonoma and have it displayed on my "Bird Cage".  I bought the Bird Cage about 20 years ago and paid for it all by myself.  It was such an extravagance at the time, mainly […]

My eyes are old.  They started getting old when I was 40.  The first of many things to go.  I first noticed that my vision was changing when I realized I had to hold my book farther and farther away from my face in order to make out the printing.  When it got to the […]

I told you nothing was going on around here.  This is the pizza my husband got at Papa Murphy's.  He likes to doctor them up with fresh veggies we have in the fridge.  We have been having pizza quite a lot lately, and even though I am getting just a tad weary of the same […]