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• Save Handmade!

  January 5, 2009 in Uncategorized

  Way to go Government! This is Olivia’s explanation of the situation:
  “The government wants to tell Mom that she’s not allowed to sew. They made a mistake in their law and Mom needs to write them a letter so that they will let her sew again.”

  The new law, H.R.4040, to go into effect on February 10th [...]

• Discipline, Olivia style

  January 4, 2009 in Uncategorized

  Olivia was trying to play an imaginary game with Elise. It involved a bunch of random figurines of which Elise was assigned a painted dinosaur. Obviously she wanted one of the cooler ones, like the T-rex or maybe the horse and fairy. Some argument ensued and then Olivia came and said to Rob:
  “Dad, I gave [...]

• Being organized is OK

  January 3, 2009 in Uncategorized

  I think we’d been married 2 years when Rob read Getting Things Done by David Allen. He was moved and inspired and insisted that I read it as well. I couldn’t even understand what the guy was talking about. Write stuff down to get it out of your head? If it takes less than 2 [...]

• A year in pictures

  January 3, 2009 in Uncategorized

  I’ve been looking at a bunch of wonderful photo collections from the previous year. I thought I should do my own. So without furthur ado:
  January- I began with resolve to clean every room of my house to tip-top shape. I failed in this resolution, but my kitchen did look wonderful for this photo!

  February- I repented.

  March- [...]

• New Beginnings

  January 1, 2009 in Uncategorized

  Last year was a big year for me. I realized some of my lifelong dreams. Some of them in a big way, some of them in a small way. I spent the year learning about my style and where I want to take my crafts. That was exciting. I learned that the biggest barrier to [...]