WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY ? How about a quick little post that has no purpose other than to be bright and happy? I will tell you right now that my sun-filled work space is like Heaven-on-Earth to me. You who love it too, already know that about me. I would …
Why Do We Do What We Do ? I printout out my latest favorite motivational quote and displayed it for the whole world to see. Since the “whole world” will never be in my personal space, I will share it with you here. As I have grown older I have …
I will tell you what happened today. Maya loves my stamps. Every time she comes to visit, she picks out a few. Then she spends quite a bit of time pouring over the stamp pads and coordinating the colors. She easily found the stamp cleaner and the wet-wipes. Next she …
Not everything I find in a thrift store is a treasure. Most things are just interesting things that someone else has grown tired of looking at and I have found to be just the thing for me to look at until I am tired of looking at the thing and …
“I’m sitting on top of the world Just rolling along, just rolling along. I’m quitting the blues of the world, Just singing a song, just singing a song.” This is an old song as old goes. It was written by Al Jolson but many people have recorded their own …
Be a Lamp, a Lifeboat or a Ladder. At the top of the globe are a lamp, lifeboat and a ladder. They are joined by a little-boy-turned-angel so that there is someone to light the lamp, row the boat and steady the ladder. I bought the little fellow over 25 years …
Funky ironing board covers make it fun to iron even if you are bored. (That sounds a bit like a tongue twister to me.) Anyone who sews knows that you can’t sew without a hot iron. Every seam needs to be pressed. Every wrinkle needs to be smoothed out. Every …
A BOOK Emily Dickinson There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul ! ~ My …
” In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.” – Coco Chanel – This little froggy is the size of a large salad plate. He was born to be a planter but his destiny appears to be that of a pin cushion. He …
All I had to do was drive around the corner. That is where I found it. Rather, “them”. Four chairs and a table sitting on the lawn with a little white sign. “$35 or best offer”. I saw the potential immediately, pulled into the driveway and knocked on the …
