Category: blog

  • a thousand sales…

    CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED!!! WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED TUESDAY MORNING. wow! it hardly seems possible! tuesday, i reached my one thousandth etsy sale! where did the time go??? if only i could think of some way to celebrate such a hallmark?????? let’s see……what, oh what could i do????? if only i had something that i […]

  • Friday Feature…

    A sweet girl by the name of Audrey emailed me this morning to let me know that she is featuring a different etsy artist every Friday on her blog and she wanted to let me know that she was featuring me and my shoppe today. What a lovely surprise! Go check it out…. (ah) the […]

  • Quite possibly one of the most entertaining Blogs EVER…

    CakeWrecks.com

  • blog, part deux…

    for a week now, I have been mischievously cheating on my little blog here.when it wasn’t looking, I created a new blog.behind it’s back. I know, it’s risky.and daring and bold. but I wanted a separate space for all of my treasured photographs.a place where I can let my nerdy tendencies flow freely. my camera […]

  • a new blog and a new pair of glasses…

    I started on a project last week that is very dear to my mending, school-mom heart.this was the only way for me to let all of my focus remain on my sweet, baby girl….and not have it classified as “border-line compulsion“. introducing: Zoe is so excited about her new blog.in fact, she’s beginning to show […]

  • what’s in a (middle) name?

    Bari has middle name “tagged” me!so it seems that I’m supposed to name some of my favorite things for each letter in my middle name. an Anagram, of sorts??? here goes. Michiko. Michiko means beautiful, wise child in Japanese.named for one of my great aunts in Japan, whom I have never met.and who is probably […]

  • give away-ing…

    Heather over at apples on a stick is having a giveaway that will definitely perk up your little ears if you have a love affair with ricrac and vintage fabrics. head on over and check it out! and if you have a blog, link to her and get an additional entry into the giveaway! there’s […]

  • a blogger blogged…

    oh my! I am so blown away!I posted one of my Portland Zoo photos in a Flickr group called “World Through My Eyes” just 2 days ago and it has already been blogged!!! here is a link to the group page where I am blogged. (well, my photo, that is)it’s a page of all the […]

  • the kindness of strangers…

    I was just recently directed to one of the most captivating blogs I have ever read. it’s down to earth, gritty and candid memoirs of a housewife and mother of four.Confessions of a Pioneer Woman.the woman has me down on all fours, pounding the floor, with tears rolling down my face. so much of what […]