Creativity | Life musings

February review and March goals

By on March 3, 2022

Oh February…you didn’t last long and I didn’t get much done. Mostly due to constantly being gone for out-of-town volleyball tournaments. So far this year, we have been to Chicago, Omaha x 2, Des Moines and Milwaukee. We are coming down to the end of the kids’ high school years and club volleyball, so that […]

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Creativity | Life musings

January review and February goals

By on February 9, 2022

As I am trying to be accountable to my goals for the year, here is how my January goals went: January Pinterest Project was this raglan sweatshirt. I ended up using the arm design for one of my sweatshirt dresses, which is very comfy to wear. I needed to wrap the kids up for pattern starting […]

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Creativity | Journalling | Life musings

2021 Wrap up and looking ahead

By on January 1, 2022

This past year was not a stellar year when it came to getting really anything done. Not on the sewing front, nor personal front. I felt like I was just treading water, trying not to sink, for most of the year. I was also insanely unfocused when I did have time to breathe, so still, […]

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Charity | Life musings | Sewing

Mask making and quarantine sewing

By on April 14, 2020

Like so many others, once we were given the “go ahead” to sew masks due to the shortage of surgical masks…I dug in. I really didn’t have the supplies for prolonged mask making, and, oh yeah, I have a full time job still. There are some glorious ladies that are working their fingers to the […]

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Craziness | Creativity | Focus | Life musings

Focus – Week 1

By on January 8, 2018

I am going to add yet another weekly post (OOTD being at the beginning, so not sure how weekly it will end up being).  Several years back when I was largely into photography there used to be weekly and annual prompts people would follow to give themselves a creative impetus to go out and take […]

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Kids | Life musings | Sewing

The end of Kindergarten

By on June 10, 2010

Hard to believe, but the first year of school is done today, which seems pretty late.  It is due to all those random days off they take during the year.  I KNOW we didn’t have all those days off and we were usually out a few days after Memorial Day. Kailan has really seemed to enjoy […]

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