In which a pillow is born…

Well, I held my breath, jumped and took the plunge!  I think the last thing I put together on a sewing machine was my sixth grade home-ec project (which was a guinea pig with a mohawk!). I was even able to thread it all correctly the first time, which I distinctly remember being a nightmare on my mom’s [...]

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Beautiful babies!

Matthew and I have always been wide open to adopting a child/children in our future in addition to having biological children. While we’re not at the point right now where we can do that, it is something that we feel called to. This morning, God continued to convict me of this plan for our lives [...]

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Busy, busy bee…

It dawned on me that we have had/will have had 3 different groups of house guests in three consecutive weekends. No wonder I’m so busy spending my evenings cleaning and cooking! I love having people stay with us, but boy, is it work! Or maybe it is just because I’m a perfectionist about making sure our [...]

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Renewal

I ended up having less time than I thought I would this weekend due to some crafting, but that’s alright. Matthew and I spent a good deal of time at the Greg Laurie Harvest ‘07 event and man, was it good- all three nights (The picture above is a stock photo from the event. We actually sat very [...]

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Brief hiatus

Our dear friends Lindsay and Jeff are coming to stay with us tomorrow night for the Greg Laurie event at the RBC Center. That means that tonight will be spent cleaning house and mowing the lawn- not much time for blogging or anything else “blogworthy.” 

I will check back in on Saturday, perhaps with a sneak peek at [...]

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What I’m researching right now…

 
1.      British Colonialism, particularly in the 20th century leading up to WWII
2.      Birth order profiles
3.      German immigrants to Michigan 1900-1950
4.      British upper class 1900-1950
5.      America 1900-1950
I’ve got a little story up my sleeve that’s decided (finally!) that it may like to come out and the above items may help (they are very broad, I [...]

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Familiar Faces

Even though we’ve been in Raleigh for nearly a year now (!) and it’s become home to us, we are still making friends, so it’s so nice to see familiar faces. It’s like being in a foreign culture and trying desperately to understand the language and then running into someone who speaks your own. We [...]

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Oh Vernors, How I Love Thee

We’re from Michigan, so living in North Carolina means that we don’t have access to a lot of the things we love, like Fay-go Pop (that’s soda to the rest of you) or Hungry Howie’s pizza and their scrumptious butter garlic crust. It also meant that we only had Vernor’s ginger-ale when we went home [...]

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Pretty, Shiny Baubles and Such

I’ve had an obsession with making these lately:

Maybe it’s because they are so easy and quick to make, so they satisfy my craving to create instantly. But, now I have a huge pile of these things just sitting there, waiting to be used. I’ve mounted a few on magnets and put one in a shadowbox, [...]

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13 June

Not much to write about today. Got up, went to work, came home. I did spend the evening reading up on my favorite auther, Diana Gabaldon, and her writing craft.  Her Outlander series is the most wonderful work I have ever laid my hands on (really, ever) and I have been reading and rereading them (multiple, [...]

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