You may have noticed that I’ve started putting my website address on all of my photos. This was something I’ve kind of been avoiding, partly because of the amount of work, but also because it felt a bit pretentious to…
Recipe Gift Book
The time seems right to take a pause in the nativity action to share my favorite gift idea I’ve had in ages and ages. A personalized recipe book filled with all my favorite dinner recipes, complete with goofy photos on…
NaBloPoMo – and happy blogiversary to me
Because I didn’t have enough going on in my life, I have gone insane and decided to join up with the NaBloPoMo crowd. NaBloPoMo is National Blog Posting Month, a blogging addict’s answer to NaNoWriMo where people even crazier than…
Body Type Shmody Type
As part of my Project Put Together to reclaim my style and cast off the mom frump, I’ve been learning about my personal style and how I want to dress my figure as it is now, instead of when I…
Bloggy Introspection
In this self-reflective phase I’ve been going through, I’ve been thinking a ton about my blogging niche – my “brand” – and paying attention to some of the advice floating out there. So much of the blogging and social media…
Mantra Wall Hanging
Years ago I did some work for a scrapbook paper manufacturer who made translucent vellum sticker paper. Vellum is beautiful paper, but can be tricky to work with since any adhesive shows through. The sticker paper made that problem go…
2010 Year of Pleasures #34
Just replenishing the office supplies and overcome with affection. Legal pads and sharpies. It’s ridiculous how much satisfaction they bring me.
Productivity in Procrastination
I spent all last week staring down the calendar and wishing I could ignore a deadline. I was very nearly successful, too. Irreantum is a literary journal for a Latter Day Saint audience, and every year they hold a contest…
Maximum Fun Drive
There have many times over these blogging years when I’ve written about Jesse Thorn and his work over on Maximum Fun.org, but I have to give him one more plug today, and give you all a heads up about an…
2010 Year of Pleasures #19
It’s Maria Bamford! As I’ve mentioned, I am a great big comedy nerd. And one of my most favorite comedians is Maria Bamford. Bear and I met her at MaxFunCon and got to eat lunch with her, and it was…