“Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”- Benjamin Franklin

I’m definitely living this quote at the moment. I am in New Bern, North Carolina for a work conference. New Bern is on the Atlantic coast and was the first capital of North Carolina. Before the Revolutionary War, it was the capital of a royal colony. This means that there is a ton of history [...]

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Jumped on the wagon…or off the deep end?

I’ve discovered the wonderful world of fun and funky craft blogs and was so inspired that I went out and bought a sewing machine. My grandmother was a seamstress by vocation and my mom used to make my clothes when I was little, so I picked up the basics of how to sew a straight [...]

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