“Sometimes I imagined as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” -Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland- journal entry: When our children were little, Grandpa, then Dad, made a “paper mache”. Little hands could drive little cars and play with little animals and fly little helicopters and airplanes on little …
“They know they’re going to look beautiful, and I don’t think women should look like costumes. They shouldn’t look like fashion victims.” -Ralph Lauren- journal entry: Fancy hats are for anywhere. Fancy hats can be really inexpensive to get your hands on. If you wore this fancy hat, you would …
“Don’t hang your hat higher than you can reach.’ -Author Unknown- journal entry: As a grandma, I wonder about other grandmas. What they do and think and how they get by. Some grandmas have what they need. Some have a little extra. Some have a lot extra. Most have what …
“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. …
“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 …
“Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.” -Pearl S. Buck- journal entry: Well, I’m amused how many fun tags I have but you might be shocked. I must be older than you are. Over time I have come to love one …
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.” -Robert Louis Stevenson- journal entry: Who knows what a child will remember? What do I remember? What do you remember about being a child, asking a question and getting an answer? What is it about …
“Think left and think right, think low and think high, Oh, the things you can think of if only you try.” Dr. Suess journal entry: Well, Dr. Suess. I have searched high and low for unique labels to sew into my projects. I have found nice labels . . . …
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” -Goethe- journal entry: I am a failed journal keeper. I love other people’s journals. Perhaps other people would like my journal . . . if I had one. I love to buy journals. I love to make journals. I love to …
