“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.” -Author Unknown- journal entry: Yes. Little girls can eat on paper plates, sitting on a blanket. That is just fine. But what if I want to be a bit more fancy? What if I want to have a party ? It’s easy. …
“The past is not a package one can lay away.” -Emily Dickinson- journal entry: In days gone by, women carried pretty handkerchiefs. They were little squares of white or cream colored cotton. They were trimmed with lace. Sometimes they had tiny flowers on them and sometimes even embroidery. Women carried …
“Sewing mends the soul.” -Author Unknown- journal entry: What is a keepsake? That is a good question. We keep many things. We keep them for different reasons. Sometimes we think we might use things someday, or someone else might want it someday, or it came from somewhere we want to …
“Don’t wait for your ship to come in . . . swim out to it !” -Author Unknown- journal entry: No kidding. This is a 15 minute swimming bag. It is made from a shower curtain. Not an expensive shower curtain but a $5.99 shower curtain on the discount table. …
“Worries go down better with soup.” -Jewish Proverb- journal entry: Just a quick apron for Ivy. Long ties in the back, gathers, ruffles, a pocket and a funky button. She loves to cook much more than she likes to wash her clothes. Seems like a good solution ! Made my …
“One woman’s mess is another woman’s filing system. -Author Unknown- journal entry: I love glass jars. I love big jars and little jars. I love colored lids and silver lids. I like jars tall and square at the bottom and round and fat. I think that if it wasn’t nutty …
“Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines and stone quarries; all people are quotations from all of their ancestors.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson- journal entry: Nothing has been more life-changing and inspiring to me than my wanderings in the forgotten lands …
“You never really know someone until you have walked a mile in her shoes. Or, is that shoe?” -Author Unknown- journal entry: Buy one-get one free. That was the deal. Of course I was thinking entirely in the box again with the lid on tight. Keeley, however, shopping with her …
“I’m a great believer in luck. I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.” -Thomas Jefferson- journal entry: It hadn’t been long since awful flooding had washed houses away and the land on which they stood. The river had been changed and nothing was where …
“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a boy.” -Author Unknown- journal entry: Children love the soft noses of horses. They love the chomp of the big teeth and the big, brown eyes. Whether it is apples, carrots or grass . …
