Catching up, and falling behind…

Coming home from our recent trip, my mojo was on fire. With 1740 photos to sift through, I decided to leave the Europe mini-book project to one side for the moment and scrap some of the photos I had sitting in my to-do pile. I’m still finding my scrapping groove, but three pages later, I’m starting to “feel the love” […]

he wears short shorts…

I have long had a goal to make some shorts for my little boy. From scratch. Including the pattern. With each passing season, my disillusionment with mass-produced children’s clothes has been growing. Buttons that fall off after two wears. Zips not zipping easily. General don’t-really-care-ness. And we’re not talking cheap stuff from kmart either. Coming home from Europe, I felt […]

Postcards from Paris…

The children are playign happily in the warmth of the German summer afternoon. A map covers the table in front of us, brochures and guidebooks piled to one side. My husband glances at me. “If it’s raining in the Alps, maybe we could go somewhere else…” I look up at him, and pull a guide book from the pile, while […]