Checkmate

My husband Richie is a pretty great chess player.  He first played when he was a kid but took it over again when someone gave him a box of chess boards to use in his GT classroom.  Richie started playing himself and has really done well the past few years.  Right now he is playing [...]

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You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone!

Hello! It has been a while since my last post. My computer harddrive crashed last Saturday! Although we will be able to pay someone to retrieve most of the data we have temporarily lost all of our documents, pictures and all of my business stuff! So…..my advise to you it to back-up anything important right [...]

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What Will They Think Of Next

I have been doing some research about gardening and such. My husband and I have talked about making our house and land more sustainable.  We are planning on adding a LARGE garden next spring and some small livestock the following year.  We have also looked into the possibility of adding Solar Panels to our house.  [...]

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dreaming of a new studio

While I really appreciate the tiny little table I have as a workspace in our guest room, I have come to realize that it is not ideal!  When HGTV came earlier this summer we temporarily removed the guest bed and I had the whole room for my crafting! I LOVED IT! I was able to [...]

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A website, a contest, a book

I love crafting and I am always hunting the web for crafty goodness.  Recently I came across a site called Cut Out + Keep.

Cut Out + Keep, a Scotland based site, is full of great craft projects, recipes and all kinds of great stuff.  Their online magazine has some interesting articles about indie business and [...]

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