Yesterday afternoon was fabulous.  I completed all my grocery shopping for the week, had accomplished my trip to The Scrap Exchange (having found exactly what I was looking for and then some), and came home to a quiet house in which to finish two projects.

Here is what I brought home from The Scrap Exchange.  It’s like opening […]

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Ah yes, the fun place I had the opportunity to visit today.  The Scrap Exchange.  It’s a place where scraps come together!  Industrial discards and donations of all kinds keep this place full of “stuff” to make art with.
 
How to shop:  You can buy a bag to fill up with bin items or just browse […]

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Yes, I’m childless today in the sense that my mother has taken my three youngest children to spend a few days with her.  In case you have not read about Grandma’s and Grandpa’s, it’s a wonderful place.  My mother says that the pictures I took last time were so early-spring, they don’t really show you […]

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As much as I wanted these luxurious soaps.

I wanted the boxes they came in.

I knew that glued together and covered in pretty paper, they’d make a lovely set of storage drawers for little bits of crafty things.

So I glued on pretty paper.

And filled each drawer with little bits of whimsy.

Exquisite old photos, preserved on pretty paper […]

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This old, dusty, ugly, very ugly thing had to go.  I’ve only had it for about 18 years.  It was good for hanging delicate laundry on, but really.  I suppose I just cracked this morning and I can’t look at it anymore.

So today while in Goodwill…  Oh, okay.  Yes, I left home today, but I had to.  […]

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Awhile back I posted about the arts and crafts area we set up in our living room.  A bit of history:  way back when, when we very first set up an art center, it was set up in the bedroom of Princess of the Universe.  It was a huge success.  She spent many hours creating and crafting.
Then we […]

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I’ve nothing profound to say. I can wonder, where did the day go? And so quickly! The days fly by!

Summer is here.  The phlox is in bloom.  So pretty.  It’s hard to be melancholy about the days passing so quickly when there are such beautiful things as flowers to keep one preoccupied. 

Yes, it’s fully summer.  The echinacea […]

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We have this old printer’s drawer mounted on the wall as you go up the stairs.  It is full of all sorts of little miniatures and transient pieces of nature.  Sometimes items will disappear for use in play elsewhere and then make their way back to the shadow box. 

I know decor-wise it’s dated perhaps to have […]

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I think I mentioned about a week ago, a lovely old frame that I found at the thrift store.  I paid around $2.49 for it.  I knew it would be wonderful painted.  And paint it I did.

Then I put some special things in it that I’ve been wanting to display for a long time. 

My grandmother - […]

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It does not really take long to do something special.  My daugther and I had a short lesson on Japanese ink painting this morning.

I think it’s one of the most relaxing forms of art I’ve ever seen.  I tend to get overwhelmed if something’s too complicated.  This is taking something very simple and becoming better […]

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