Here is a skirt I made this week for Trinity with one yard of fabric & no pattern. I really like how it turned out. I would only change a small thing that doesn’t show but would conceal the elastic a little better on the inside. We added two similar buttons in two different sizes for decoration. I also had enough scraps to make a head band for her.Tghe colors of this skirt are a lot like the colors you can find in her eyes! Read Full Story

We journeyed to the Missouri Botanical Gardens again last night for a free picnic style concert put on by The Whitaker Foundation featuring Anita Rosamond. It was packed. We had a GREAT time. The kids were awesome. It’s so fun seeing them experience something for the first time.  There was a good deal of wine, cheese and people who really know how to relax and have a good time. They had wine bottle/glass caddies, plenty of food… salads, chicken, strawberries & chocolate fo... Read Full Story

I have been learning how to color correct my images this morning, after coffee. No big adventures planned today, but are they ever planned? We wanted to go camping, but we need to do a little more research on the place. It’s not like in the Northwest where you just go up to the mountains and pick a spot and camp. Well, there are campgrounds there as well, but sometimes it is nice(aside from the lack of toilets) to not camp next to John and Jane Doe in their RV with their yelping chihuah... Read Full Story

Josh took this. More at his flickr. Add him, he wants more “friends” there! Here is one I took. I love it cause it is more interesting than the average flower. Here is a frog looking up thinking he has at least three resources. LOL. For the record, the frog is real. Dale Chihuly had some nice art there. Josh took a few others of a yellow piece. This one was on the lobby. I have been a fan of him ever since that PBS special about 3 years ago. I liked the detail on these ... Read Full Story

Do you want to see what I have been up to in school this summer? Here is an essay I wrote for Film Appreciation class taught by Stacy Barton. “A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.” —Jean Genet. To describe City Of Lost Children as dark, sinister or “sick-and-twisted” (Hicks, Deseret News 1996) in the most rudimentary convention is to fly instead of taking a ship, camp in a trailer instead of under the stars or watch a movie when (in ... Read Full Story

Josh asked me last night if I wanted to go camping. Between the bugs and the poison oak, no… not really. Actually, I think I would love to. We might this weekend. He also wants to drive somewhere. I said the beach, but The Great Lakes are closer and cooooooooooooler. I don’t know if we’ll really go, but it would be nice to do something like this before summer is over. Last night was my last film appreciation class for the summer semester. It was my only class. I got an A on... Read Full Story

So of course I had to share. By Laura PelickI also saw a store here called "Lactation" the other day with slings in the windows. The world is so much better when people put their art in it.   Read Full Story

We got our shopping “bags” tonight!! We ended up getting them at Target anyway because we checked out the ones at Dollar Tree and they are TINY!! These where like six dollars each, but we figure with all the grocery shopping we do they will get major major usage. Not to mention most of the vendors at the farmer market automatically bag in plastic t-shirt bags for each individual vegetable. Luckily today we were able to cut down on bags by bringing along our little cooler. I had S... Read Full Story

On Friday, because the weather has been too good to not enjoy, we took a drive out to Carlyle Reservoir to check it out. The state park itself was pretty boring. We tried to go all around the lake and check out the wildlife reserve at the top, but as we took some access roads from Centralia, it became more and more country. When we finally reached the Kaskaskia River, we ran into a road block of flooding. The river was big and brown and going fast. There was a cool old bridge that had a sign ... Read Full Story

Hey! Do you know why I haven’t had any weather related complaints lately? Cause the weather hasn’t sucked. It’s been at most 80° and there is a cool breeze. I hate to brag, but it is outright lovely. I have heard the NW has been brutal. :/ I am betting that with the next storm (Thursday) we are going to be getting more and more humidity. I got a singer sewing machine. The cheap walmart one. At first I was really bummed out about it because that is the way I am.. haha. I ... Read Full Story