Snow Day too

Kids are great. It was a snow day, and despite the monster headache that has plagued me for a week and having to go to work (I do love my job but I want a snow day too!) I actually enjoyed the snow. Tuesday night the snow started to fall. That was all anyone talked about: How much snow do…

Soundtrack for a Sucky Monday

So. In the bar of life there are days that I am like top shelf liquor; expensive and fine. There are the days that I am the dusty bottles of vintage wine to be savored and sipped. And then there are days like today when I am the abandoned martini glasses with a cigarette crumpled in it. Today was that…

In my previous life I was called Twinkles

Saturday6:32 ishHome Desperately I scan the contents of the fridge and cabinets trying to pull a Macgyver. What can I put together with the ingredients on hand, that will be edible and that my kid will eat? Why do I even bother? I am convinced that The Bee was a cat in a former life. How else can one explain…

Soundtrack for a week in song

Shout out to Charles Osgood and CBS Sunday Morning for inspiring this list. There was segment that featured songs with Sunday in the title. Since I really didn’t have all that many “Sunday” songs going in my ear I extended it to the whole week. Please to enjoy: Etta James: Sunday Kind of Love Billie Holiday: Gloomy Sunday The Bangle:…

UFO February

UFO may conjure thoughts of little green men (and women) but to crafters alike, UFO means Unfinished Object.And I have lots of ’em.This February I had visions of another month long thread but have decided that I need to get these UFOs done. For various reasons I have unfinished projects that are left to languish in the many give away…