“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 . …
“If you don’t like something, change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” -Mary Engelbreit- journal entry: When I first spread out everything I had to put into scrapbooks it was as if the universe had crashed on my table. I had five piles …
“Time in minutes slips away. First the hour and then the day. Small the daily loss appears, ’till it soon amounts to years.” -Inscription Indianapolis Public Library- journal entry: A 12×12 calendar format is a VERY easy way to keep a journal without a lot of fuss. This is what …
“One kind word can warm three winter months.” -Japanese Proverb- journal entry: GREAT! WOW! AWESOME! I said one kind word each of three ways. Does that mean that I can warm nine months? Add this to my list of favorite photographs. It was a perfect day for winter things. I …
