I receive a daily email from a website called Hometalk. Hometalk is a site that hosts a collection of home and garden DIY projects. Their daily emails have a collection of a dozen or so DIY projects that they have collected from crafty folks from around the world that have repurposed everything from coffee stirrers to pennies. [...]
I love Pinterest and I hate Pinterest. As I have said before, Pinterest is like crack for crafters - once you are sucked in you can't get out without an intervention. I do not know how many ideas are posted on Pinterest, but I sense it is in the hundreds of millions. I believe a [...]
Ever since the folks a couple of streets over added on a sunroom (about five years ago) I have been thinking about how much I would like a sunroom. I think about how much joy I would derive from a sunroom. I imagine I will relax and read books while basking in the sunlight in [...]
I was on the Costco site the other day and I discovered that they have a Funeral tab. I was initially unsettled by the notion that superstores such as Costco had entered the funeral planning space. Something about the obvious consumerism aspect of death right there on the Costco page just struck me as a [...]
Let me just get this out of the way - I watched the television show The A-Team in the 80s. I loved that show. I particularly loved the characters B.A. Baracus (played by Mr. T) and John "Hannibal" Smith (played by George Peppard). And note, I pity the fool who thinks they are going to [...]
When it comes to being crafty - skilled, I am not. But I must confess, I so want to be gifted in that way. I go through phases periodically where I invest in some crafty effort, but then I ultimately abandon those efforts when I remember that, try as I may, I remain woefully unskilled. Lately, [...]
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