tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-247277312024-03-07T18:10:41.975-06:00Chaos To ArtUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger323125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-33524683287397702022014-10-16T22:20:00.000-05:002014-10-16T22:20:08.069-05:00A Small Purse (what??)I need a small purse. Just to hold my phone, some cash, some cards. This has never happened before. I love, love, love my giant TARDIS-like purses. It is very important that I carry everything I could possibly need with me at all times. But I will soon be traveling to a theme park, and I just really needed something for just my valuables (everything else will be left in the stroller). And I don'tUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-91075014504428023402014-06-29T16:42:00.000-05:002014-06-29T16:42:04.675-05:00Sherlock Wallpaper SkirtHello, there! I've been tremendously absent, haven't I? Well, I finally made a thing.
I started watching BBC's Sherlock last fall, and we finished up season 2 a couple weeks (I guess?) before the new season premiered on January 1. And uh, then I got on Tumblr, and then I watched season 3, and uh... let's just say almost all my free time in the last 6 months has been taken up by watching, readingUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-78859575629282489442013-10-11T18:28:00.000-05:002013-10-11T22:26:59.672-05:00Book Sale Purchase as a Snapshot of My Life, Part 2
I wrote this other blog post three (three!) years ago after attending the annual library book sale in my other town. In it, I talk about how my pile of books had changed in the 8 years between the first time I attended the sale and the time I attended the sale as the mother of a 1.5 year old.
Well, now I have a 4.5 year old, and the pile has changed yet again. Three of those books Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-15596546942241345082013-08-10T07:48:00.000-05:002013-08-10T07:48:01.410-05:00Eating Real Food During a MoveOver the last 7 or so years, I've gone from eating pretty much whatever/whenever to being a lot more mindful and informed about my food choices. The title of the post refers to "real food", which has kind of a lot of different definitions depending on where you go around the internet. But for my family, eating real food means making most food from scratch, using whole grains, trying Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-20003201700266374492013-07-12T18:00:00.000-05:002013-07-12T18:00:00.926-05:00Moving with a Toddler or PreschoolerAs I mentioned, this summer will be the third summer in a row that our little family has moved across the country. As such, not only do I have a lot of experience packing, but I also have experience mitigating crises of little person moving emotions. Here are the things that have helped us help Lucy as we've shuffled her around as a 2-year-old, a 3-year-old, and this summer as a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-35878247387842683372013-07-11T20:29:00.003-05:002013-07-11T21:17:11.001-05:00Big Post of Packing and Moving TipsI'm about to move cross-country for the third time in three years. So I thought maybe I should actually write a post about how I do it. I've pretty much got it all figured out. ;-)
Let's get this out of the way: We move by packing our own boxes, loading our own boxes onto a semi truck, and then letting the semi truck moving company drive our stuff to its destination. We Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-15310957687009539952013-04-26T15:52:00.000-05:002013-04-26T15:52:57.755-05:00Four.
Lucy is 4 today! What?? I've been waiting a year and a half to be able to do this for Lucy, after seeing it over at SortaCrunchy, so now I'm finally, shamelessly stealing the idea from her.
This is the song.
Here is Lucy's birth story.
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I'm sittin' here
I'm one day old
And I'm sittin'Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-89045443340810396062013-04-14T20:23:00.000-05:002013-04-14T20:23:46.393-05:00Delivery!I spent $85 at an educational supply website the other day. Part of me was like "85 dollars???" and part of me was like "::shrug:: Gotta spend money to be awesome."
What that $85 dollars got me:*10 pounds of tempera paint powder (1 pound each of 10 different colors)
*168 colored wooden dominoes
*500 stick-on googly eyes
*One of these (cork board, hammer, tacks, and wooden shapes with Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-20360439785408339692013-03-26T19:39:00.000-05:002013-03-26T19:39:00.380-05:00Playroom CleanupLest anyone is under the mistaken impression that I am 1.) a meticulous housekeeper, or 2.) a strict disciplinarian, I offer the following for clarification:
[Lucy's playroom]
It's looked this way for the last... two weeks? At least? Probably more because we were on vacation last week and it was like this before that.
Every now and then Norman or I will go in and put some Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-90718121887999381732013-02-27T12:13:00.001-06:002013-02-27T12:15:50.521-06:00DreamsSome of my Facebook friends and I have been thinking and talking about dreams a lot lately. Not the sleeping kind. The bucket list kind. The things you want to do, but you're not sure if it will ever happen. And you're kind of afraid to try.
We've been talking about what they are, why they're scary, and who's doing what to try to accomplish them. It's really Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-45238985032446015712013-01-05T12:07:00.000-06:002013-01-05T12:07:56.842-06:00Christmas 2012It's the Twelfth Day of Christmas, so I'm just fitting this in under the wire! (We go to an Episcopal church now, so it's totally allowed.)
We had Christmas! Lucy is now 3.5, so she was way more into it this year than any time previous. And she has chosen to believe in Santa Claus, even though we do absolutely nothing to encourage (or discourage) that. She's also Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-88432536209363799702012-12-11T06:00:00.000-06:002012-12-11T06:00:04.469-06:00Two Shows Down; One to Go!Home show / open house -- check!
Deluxe -- check!
The home show was a fun event, but a moderate success. My friend Jen did great, because her stuff is adorable! She makes jewelry and accessories from leather scraps, which makes them, in my opinion, perfect because they're feminine without being too girly.
[See?]
Our friends generously hosted again in their House of the Spacious Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-525361961448119782012-11-11T12:08:00.000-06:002012-11-11T12:08:50.722-06:00Busy Building a VillageHello, out there in blogland! I haven't updated the blog in 2.5 months. And I don't feel even a tiny bit guilty about this. I've been busy! I've been busy getting settled back here in Oklahoma. I've been busy shopping and making and listing and selling for my Etsy shops. There was October curb shopping (though somewhat toned down), which has so far resulted in Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-36247100477093957802012-08-24T07:00:00.000-05:002012-08-24T07:00:13.138-05:00School AccomplishmentsThis is about to get really real, y'all. Serious blog post with sprinklings of embarrassing facts about me ahead.
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It's Back to School time. I just moved. I just read this blog post. These events have converged and resulted in my thinking about what I accomplished in school. I spent 17 years in school. I attended public school,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-31160447562978726972012-08-23T19:46:00.000-05:002012-08-23T19:46:14.436-05:00Featured...This very blog was recently featured over at Pocket Change, a cool shopping blog. You can see the post here. I'm pretty excited, because they found me and asked if they could feature me. Fun stuff!
[Bonus! Photo of my daughter sitting in her "Big Bird Nest". Just happens to be both the first and last time she'll have done that. Ahem.]
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-85681544225860384142012-07-27T05:00:00.000-05:002012-07-27T05:00:13.042-05:00Dear ArcataThis week I'm leaving you. It's not you, it's me. Actually it's my husband. No, actually it's God. I knew I couldn't stay here when I showed up. I'm sad, but not disappointed.
Arcata, I'm writing to say thank you. Thank you for one year's vacation. Thank you for giving me the gift of knowing myself better. Thank you for space to breathe. Thank you for Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-19209986363999317592012-07-17T05:00:00.000-05:002012-07-17T05:00:14.164-05:00Vacation 2012: Twin PeaksThis will be a non-chronological account of the highlights of our recent Northwestern road trip.
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We decided that the best possible use of time in the Seattle metro area would be to visit the cafe where they filmed Twin Peaks. (Which is a TV show from the early '90s. And also a weird movie.)
So after we waited two and a half hours in Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-28791270295950435692012-07-13T05:00:00.000-05:002012-07-13T10:58:16.004-05:00Vacation 2012: X-FilesThis will be a non-chronological account of the highlights of our recent Northwestern road trip.
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And by "X-Files", I mean X-Files filming locations in Vancouver, British Columbia. This was the whole point of our trip, actually. Well, not the X-Files part, but the Vancouver part, certainly. I visited about 11 years ago to see a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-43938811444054442152012-07-10T05:00:00.000-05:002012-07-13T10:57:50.194-05:00Vacation 2012: PortlandThis will be a non-chronological account of the highlights of our recent Northwestern road trip.
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Portland! As some sort of hipster, Norman certainly needed to visit. It was lovely, though we didn't spend much time there. We visited two main attractions: IKEA and SCRAP. Yes, both of these places are spelled with all Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-73848341061172312342012-07-01T05:00:00.000-05:002012-07-01T05:00:11.474-05:00Jessie Lyman's Journals, Part 23 (the last)
I previously introduced you to my great-great grandmother, Jessie Lyman Eckert. You can read the first post here, and subsequent post are filed under Jessie Lyman's diary.
Jessie Lyman was born January 2, 1878. She graduated from Westport High
School (Westport, MO, now part of Kansas City) in 1897 at the head of
her class. From what I have read of her diaries so far, it Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-84717075702007916742012-06-29T05:00:00.000-05:002012-06-29T05:00:13.510-05:00Lego Emergency!I promised you one more busy bag-like project. And here it is!
I was cruising Pinterest, looking for any packing/moving/road trip with kids tips I hadn't seen before, and lo and behold, this is the only thing I came up with. Wow.
But it is awesome! I thought I was done making stuff, but I had to jump up and make one of these immediately (instead of washing the dishes Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-6840674510654607122012-06-26T05:00:00.000-05:002012-06-26T05:00:01.321-05:00Busy Bags: MiscellanyThis summer to coincide with our (definitely one, possibly two) epic
road trip(s), I am making busy bags for Lucy. See the others by
clicking here.
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The following are not proper busy bags, and they didn't take that much effort to make (or I didn't actually make them at all), so I thought I'd lump them all into one post. The Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-40558472292583530482012-06-24T05:00:00.000-05:002012-06-24T05:00:02.830-05:00Jessie Lyman's Journals, Part 22I previously introduced you to my great-great grandmother, Jessie Lyman Eckert. You can read the first post here, and subsequent post are filed under Jessie Lyman's diary.
Jessie Lyman was born January 2, 1878. She graduated from Westport High
School (Westport, MO, now part of Kansas City) in 1897 at the head of
her class. From what I have read of her diaries so far, it Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-21775649217743488012012-06-22T05:00:00.000-05:002012-06-22T05:00:03.139-05:00Busy Bag #6: Mailbox!This summer to coincide with our (definitely one, possibly two) epic
road trip(s), I am making busy bags for Lucy. See the others by
clicking here.
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Yes, this busy bag gets an exclamation point! This is the best-looking one in my opinion, if not the most fun. I really turned out perfectly, just as I'd imagined it.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24727731.post-6264071642080982862012-06-19T05:00:00.000-05:002012-06-19T05:00:04.567-05:00Busy Bag #5: HardwareThis summer to coincide with our (definitely one, possibly two) epic
road trip(s), I am making busy bags for Lucy. See the others by
clicking here.
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I don't really know what else to call this one! It's actually more like a busy book page than it is like a busy bag. Well... just look!
Ingredients:
grosgrain ribbon Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1