cooking : crafts : organization : gardening : thrifting : going green
Remember these people? Well, last weekend Erin and Jason got their turn to be bride and groom, and it was yet another perfectly personalized celebration of love. Erin was the most organized bride you’ve ever seen. She had instructional packets for just about everyone involved, and she made sure everyone was in the right place [...]
Erin and I have been best friends since we were highly awkward seventh graders (with much embarrassing photo evidence to prove it). And now we are both getting married in the space of a month. This weekend we’re celebrating her shower in our hometown, Lawrence, Kansas. I couldn’t be happier for these two. I feel [...]
photo by Laura Wehde Remember my adorable friend Brianne and her amazing wedding? Today you can read more about the wedding on A Practical Wedding, probably the greatest wedding Web site out there. I can definitely relate to the feeling that you want to please people close to you while staying true to yourself. Even [...]
It makes me sad to hear that someone isn’t close with her mom because I’ve been lucky to always be close with mine. We have the same thick, wavy, and often unruly hair that started to turn gray too soon. We have the same junk in the trunk that makes jeans impossible to fit at [...]
Last week I got to meet one of my crafty idols, Leslie Hall. If you don’t know who she is, the best way I can explain her is to say that whenever we’re having a bad day or feeling down at work, we just look up one of her videos, and it always makes us [...]
If you were going to read any of the stories I wrote for Juice, I would have to suggest these two, part of a series that just ran. And you might want to have a Kleenex handy. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. A Mother Moves On After the War
If I go to any more potluck church dinners I’ll have to go on a diet. Maybe church membership is culprit in the obesity cycle! (Most) of us are incapable of running/working it off! My grandmother is an extraordinary woman and a very regular letter writer. I save them all. Her little nuggets of everyday [...]
Last weekend “Sylvia” arrived from my Netflix queue. Gwyneth Paltrow plays Sylvia Plath and Daniel Craig plays her cheatin’ husband. It wasn’t the greatest movie ever made, but I did like it, and it did get into how she never really got the help she needed for her depression. Anyway, it got me thinking that [...]
Two of my crochet patterns — vintage hanger covers and a colorful granny square pillow — have been published in a new book. You can now order So Pretty! Crochet, by my talented friend Amy Palanjian, at Amazon.com. 
