Prepping and pouting

We are readying the house for the last scheduled holiday gathering. In a couple of hours eight girls and eight moms will find there way here for what is becoming an annual gathering. I’m cool with that. The youngest is making brownies. I did my duty by dragging out 16 plates and 16 glasses and [...]

Checking in a week before Christmas

I’m still here! Hopefully I’ll have a photo of some tags I’ve made later today. But, to be honest, it doesn’t seem very clever to post about everything I’ve been up to lately since some of the recipients might stumble across those items. I’ll be sure to get you full details after the gifts are [...]

An overdue update

I almost put this off until tomorrow. That’s kind of the world I’m living in these days. My only real deadlines are bill payments, and I’m working hard to make all of those automatic! To begin, we had another book club gathering last night. The book was Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay. Read this [...]

53 pounds to NYC

And someone is getting better at this!

Alterations

Help where you can find it!

Well, there’s both a lot and not much going on around here. Of course, the focus keeps pointing to a certain wedding. I will spend the next few days attempting to alter a bodice on a dress to match my mismatched body. There are challenges, but today I realized the lining isn’t closed and makes [...]