I have wandered far away from my roots in the scrapbooking world. That’s where I’ve spent the most time employed as a crafter, but for a long complicated list of reasons I wound up largely leaving it behind. I’m so…
Setting Goals
I’ve put up my new goals for 2010. Right over… Yeah, I know, there’s a lot of them. It’s probably mathematically impossible for me to achieve them all, especially given how much knitting is on the list when I am…
Pardcast 2009
Over the weekend we got to go to a taping of my favorite podcast. I’ve linked to them once or twice, but seriously, if you like really really ridiculously funny stuff and aren’t afraid of the stray f-word, it’s the…
The big conference
I suppose after all that talk before hand I should probably talk a little bit about how it went, right? Not to get too grandiose, but I really do think that last week was one of the most productive and…
2009 Year of Pleasures #31
I’m leaving in minutes to spend the rest of the week in Utah for this conference I keep talking about, but I’m most excited for it because I get to catch up with some of my most favorite people from…
Taking my show on the road.
Next month I’m going to be speaking at the Sunstone symposium. Sunstone is a fantastic magazine that focuses on the Mormon experience through academic scholarship, literature, and addressing of social issues within the church and without. It doesn’t seem to…
Garden Bounty
This gardening thing has a real learning curve. I may have failed with sprouting seeds, but my bulbs all went off like gangbusters, and once I bought the seedlings and got them in ground, I managed to keep them alive,…
2009 Year of Pleasures #9
I found myself in Target the other day and they had cute blank books in their dollar section. I snapped one up for this project I had in mind. I took all of the cards and emails and comments I’ve…
I’m the Guys
This house turned out to be way way more of a fixer upper than we had any idea. We thought we’d slap a coat of paint on the place and be done. Then there was two months of wallpaper removal,…
Grammar police
Bear and I were watching TV the other night, and a laundry detergent commercial came on. It was very retro and showed all the generations of women who have been doing laundry, with the dress and the basement décor changing…