About Me

I am a “domestic engineer” as they called it in the late ’70s when my mom stayed at home with me. Call me housewife, call me stay-at-home mom, call me tired.

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Chocolate-Mint Grasshopper Pie :: Simple Layered Fiesta Salad :: Soft & Chewy Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies :: Potato Smashers

Archive for 'Creating' Category

Shutterfly Album Embed

Jun 15th, 2008 by CEO | 0

Here is an album I made for my husband’s grandfather for Christmas 2007 using Shutterfly. It was fairly quick even for a perfectionist, and easy to do using their templates. Shutterfly allows users to post projects in personal galleries, which is a fun way to share albums with others as well as creative ideas. As [...]

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Dabbling to No End must End!

Jun 15th, 2008 by CEO | 0

Recently at book club, we were talking about the latest trend of creating photo books online. Before scrapbooking was popular and all the cool tools came out, I would cut out photos, draw creative lettering with colored pencils, and use plain old tape to attach photos. Needless to say, the scrapbooks eventually fell apart. That [...]

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Chocolate Kisses Topiary

Feb 13th, 2008 by CEO | 0

This is a topiary I created for a chocolate-themed event our women’s ministry sponsors every year. I got the idea from Hersheys.com. All I really did differently was in the details. I spray painted the terracotta pot and the rod of the topiary form gold. I used gold wired ribbon for a bow directly underneath [...]

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Why I Can’t Quilt and Other Excuses

Jan 3rd, 2008 by CEO | 0

I can’t quilt and here’s why. It’s the same reason why I never got past basic chords on the guitar. My discipline does not match my desire. Take this example from HGTV. This quilt, in my opinion, is absolutely exquisite. It’s art. And I would want my quilt to be art! I wouldn’t want to [...]

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A Creative Dabbler

Oct 25th, 2007 by CEO | 0

Whether it’s writing a song, making a scrapbook page or participating in any other form of creativity, I have always needed some way to express myself. Unfortunately, I’ve also always been a dabbler. You know I’ll take up knitting, then jump over to scrapbooking, then play the guitar for a little while. That would be [...]

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