You all know I make a lot of capes for my kids to dress up in. With the Boy’s Hobbit themed birthday part coming up this Saturday I’m about to enter full costume mode again. Which caused me to remember that I keep saying I will some day post a […]
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Wherein I tell you all my cake making secrets
As promised here, I will now share my recipes for the best cakes ever, maybe. To begin with I should explain something. I have hardly ever fully invented a cake recipe. I usually start with a really delicious cake recipe that someone else made and then alter it beyond all […]
Read MorePHFR – Wedding Cake
There’s a bit of a wedding theme going on over at Like Mother, Like Daughter right now. That may have something to do with the fact that Sukie and Deirdre are both marrying within a few short months of each other. So it seems appropriate to tell you about the […]
Read MoreAnd Finally, Christmas decorating – a short tutorial on not spending anything at all
Last Friday night I unplugged! I decided any work I wasn’t finished with could wait at least one day and shut down the laptop. It has been years since have gone that long without internet while at home. I opened it briefly late Saturday night, but only to forward the […]
Read MoreWedding Pictures
So thanks to Veronica Mitchell’s suggestion I am trying to do NaNoWriMo this month. Yeah, my odds of finishing a book while planning a benefit concert, single parenting while Aaron is on the road and trying to keep school current are low, but I make progress. In between I get […]
Read MoreDIY Lord of the Rings Costumes
The young hobbit inscribes his sword with elvish runes. Our family has never really done much for Halloween, but ever since our church started throwing this great masquerade party every year we’ve started dressing up for it. This year the kids started planning costumes a month ago and I kept […]
Read MoreAt least they’re creative?
The girls have a doll made from corn husks by their auntie, complete with corn silk hair. So when I saw them get out the glue after shucking corn the other night I assumed they were going to try and make their own corn husk doll. I was wrong. Little […]
Read More5 Years Ago
We were getting ready to move into our first apartment in California. All our furniture had been left behind in Canada, we had only what 2 minivans could carry on the drive down. I was trying not to be bitter about how unrealistic it had been to believe what we […]
Read MoreKitchen flow
dried hydrangeas and a miniature teacup a sprig of oak from a nature walk So I’m taking a short break from telling you all about the kids in Thailand that need your help. Even though they do still really need you help. We’ve had 3 new supporters sign up in […]
Read MoreA quick way to a meaningful advent calendar
My kids are always asking me to buy them an advent calendar. I never want to because I detest the pictures on them. They are garish one, and two, they have nothing to do with advent! If you aren’t spending the days before Christmas looking forward to the coming of […]
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