Becoming a Stay-at-Home Mom, the Hard Way I updated a post from 2016, in the hopes that everyone would know my "story" a little bit better. These days (in 2024) I blog about curating a career as an artist. The journey to becoming a stay-at-home mom is still an important part of who I am. Being home Continue Reading
Becoming a Holiday Meal Matriarch
For the past eight years or so, we have been cooking Thanksgiving dinner at our house, as opposed to going to other people's houses to eat their food. Once I turned forty I figured I needed to at least know how to cook turkey and all of the trimmings for the traditional holiday meal. When I was Continue Reading
Machine Embroidery-The Agony and the Ecstacy
It’s that time again! Time to put the Brother PE 500 to work. Armed with 3 "blank" soon-to-be embroidered sweatshirts, I am ready to go in my little sewing nook and make the machine embroidery happen! I know in advance that my machine will eat at least one of the sweatshirts. It does not Continue Reading
The Merging of Thanksgiving and Christmas
Thanksgiving 2012 In the past, the day after Thanksgiving was the official starting point of the Christmas season. Christmas has been arriving earlier of late. November 1st is now the "First Day of Christmas." The Countdown to Christmas at Walmart is posted right after Halloween, at any rate. I Continue Reading
My Cruise Experience
My Cruise Experience The Atlantis Resort We just returned from a 5 day cruise to the Bahamas. Although I have been on several cruises, I still felt afraid before sailing. The ocean is just so vast. We had to board our ship in Charleston, SC. First of all, it was windy and damp. Secondly, it Continue Reading
Dork Diaries Cake
Today I am attempting to make a Dork Diaries cake for my daughter's 12th birthday (The Dork Diaries are popular books for adolescent and pre-teen girls). I wish that I could be one of those fondant-flipping devas that whip out smooth, picture-perfect cakes. But, I'm not. I prefer to make my Continue Reading
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