Chaos To Art

[photo by cinefil_ ] "Tales from the Sale" -- do you like that? I just made it up. It may or may not be a series. But you see a ...

[The sale on Saturday morning. That's the second day. Plenty left!] As you know, last week I was organizing and running a garage sale t...

On Sunday, I finished reading a book called Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio. I loved it. As so...

Remember that garage sale I told you I was going to have? Well, it kinda morphed into this crazy-ginormous church -wide building fundraiser...

Today is Lucy's first birthday. I can't believe it. A year?? It's been a year since I had my giant tummy? A year since I sta...

Whew! The 1st Birthday Party is officially over and done with. It was such great fun! We had grand schemes of an outdoor party. We were g...

In addition to the new Maynard Family Happy Birthday Banner , I also made a Maynard Family Happy Birthday Garland. It is meant to replace c...

(photo by gwenwasley ) Yesterday we went to the grocery store to buy food for Lucy's 1st birthday party (and for my mom to eat while she...

The 13th was my husband Norman 's birthday. We keep birthdays fairly low-key around here, but I always like to make them at least a lit...

It's not anyone's birthday today. Well, not it my family anyway. Last week I finished the brand new Maynard Family Happy Birthday Ba...