thinking about writing

At the age of six, as my fingers first found how to shape the alphabet, I decided to become a person of letters…I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns.  I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.  I have forgotten the [...]

Like I really needed something else to help me procrastinate..

Last week.  Was.  Horrific.  Oh my gosh.  I don’t even want to think about it.
There were a few good points.  One or two.

1.  My college supervisor observed me teaching, and it went phenomenally well.  Like, super amazing.  (My mom acts completely non-surprised: ‘I’ve always said you could do anything you put your mean little head [...]

9 for (what’s left of)* ‘09

I was skimming through the archives a minute ago, and I came across my list of resolutions for 2009. I’m not linking back to it here, because I’m a little embarrassed at how little I’ve accomplished.  I have learned to bake pretty good bread, so that’s one thing checked off, at least.
Maybe it’s time for some [...]

Daring Girls Reading List

Just found a link to that reading list I wrote about the other day; thought some of you might be interested to see what’s on it.  Scroll down to pages three-five. 
 
Speaking of mother-daughter book clubs (the first two pages of the link, for those of you non-link-clickers), I always push books into my mom’s hands.  [...]

Happy Halloween

I made a Halloween costume for one of my best friends this year.
It was my first sewn garment.
 
I will not be appearing on Project Runway anytime soon.
 
What was it?
I’ll give you a clue.
She wasn’t Dorothy.
Actually, that’s two clues, because now you know it was for a girl, too.

Can I just read for a living?

One of my favorite things is to walk through my house and see every single member of my family reading a book.  It makes me think twice about having a t.v. in my future home (although I am rather attached to Glee, and Project Runway, and The Hills/The City<-don’t mock) (and speaking of, there’s this [...]

Fall is here and I love it!

A little while back I was wearing this outfit:

And I got the following comment from a random guy I passed: “That’s a serious look.  I like it.”
I chose to believe he was referring to my outfit, which was a serious look for a rainy Wednesday on a college campus, and not the look on my face [...]

If my life was a Nora Ephron movie, it would have a really great soundtrack.

If you know me at all, you probably know that my very most favorite movie is “You’ve Got Mail”.  I love Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, her hair, the music, her BOOKSHOP, HER APARTMENT!!  Ackk!!   
So I made a quilt inspired by the quilt on her bed in that movie.

It’s a smallish, lap quilt sized throw based on [...]

Meet the Author

Beverly Lewis, aka one of my top three favorite authors of Christian fiction ever, was in a town 45 minutes from my house last Tuesday afternoon.  So you better believe I loaded myself up in my car and headed up there!  I’ve been reading Beverly Lewis books for the past 6 years or so.  I [...]

UFOs

For those of you not in the craft-y world, I’m talking about unfinished objects.  And I have lots of them.

1.  Belinda–So yeah, I’ve been working on this wrap for almost a year.  And I’m about 1/4 of the way done..soo..3 years to go??  (Here it is back in November) 

2.  Pleated Wrap–from the Spring/Summer 09 issue [...]