Brain Drain....Sunday EditionI hope I am not too late to the Friday Fragment party! I am not trying to be fashionably late, I promise.I spent Thursday driving around in heavy traffic in St. Louis. My sister had a doctor's appointment and I was her chauffeur. We had a nice day which included a little shopping-hello, cute lamp for our bedroom!-and my new favorite lunch at California Pizza Kitchen, roasted vegetable salad.When we got home, I grabbed the laptop and headed to a board meeting. … [Read more...]
Friday Fragments-The Saturday EditionThis has been another fun but busy week, and I'm happy to share some of it with you!Rewarding Activity:Last Saturday morning, around 160 of us gathered at our local community center to pack 50,000 meals for Haiti. Two of my former students took this on as a project through Change This World; they raised $12,000, organized the packing day, and will visit Haiti this summer to meet some of the people impacted. It was fun and I am so proud of Kristen … [Read more...]
Vintage Glider LoveWelcome to our home!Last summer, I wanted a vintage glider in the worst way. Two of them sold at an auction for big $, and our family bought one of them for my sister for a you-received-your-new-lungs-15-years-ago-and-we-are-so-happy-you-got-your-life-back gift. My cousin bought the other one. I would not bid against her. So hard to keep my hand down!I found this funky fabric at our local junk store for $1.50 a yard-love it!I would see gliders in random places too far away … [Read more...]
Friday Fragments..I'm Wordy III enjoy participating in Half-Past Kissin' Time's Friday Fragments Brain Dump, so I'm dumping the answers to these questions as my contribution this week!1. Name one thing you would like to learn to do and why.I have two cans of Anne Sloan chalk paint, wax, and a brush in the garage calling my name. Anne's paints are all over the DIY blogs that I read and I have been wanting to give them a try for a while now. When we were in Florida, I bought some but haven't … [Read more...]
I'm WordyHolly at Full Circle Creations kindly tagged me to participate in this Eleven question thingy that is going round the blog world. I have never done anything like this before, so I am happy to give it a try!My answers are a bit rambly so I'm going to do this in two posts.Please enjoy the pics I took of my friends real life Daffodil Hill!What was the last book that you read?I just finished reading When Irish Guys are Smiling by Suzanne Supplee. It is a cute little book for … [Read more...]
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