Biting off…

…more than I can chew. It’s a standard operating procedure for me. I was doing better, only taking on tasks that I could easily finish and learning to say “no”. But I’ve had another setback. You see, I was offered another couple of transcribing jobs. Two months ago, I swore [...]

Hi, there!

We’re back. In both the real world and blog world forms. We just returned from a week long trip to Hawaii where we were honored to participate in the wedding of MonkeyMan’s brother to his long-time girlfriend. And as we’re adjusting back to our time zone, I’ve been spending my unusually quiet [...]

Spy Bag

I’m on a spy bag making kick these days. I made my first one as part of a blog swap with a friend of a friend in Japan. Then I made a few for birthday gifts. And I made a super jumbo packed one for MonkeyBoy for our recent plane trip. [...]

Car Play Book

While preparing for our recent trip, I knew I needed some activities to keep MonkeyBoy in his airplane seat. One of the things I wanted to make for him was a small playmat that he could use as a scene scape as well as a storage device for his toy cars. I didn’t [...]

Too Cool for School

We attended a biker rally this evening to watch 1500 motorcycles parade past us. A kindly biker offered his seat to MonkeyBoy, who perfected his “I’m too cool for this” face for pictures.

MonkeyBoy had a wonderful time waving at all the bikers with both hands and yelling “Hi!” and “Bye!” at them at the [...]

Baby Cake

One of my friends asked me to make a cake for a baby girl shower she was hostessing. We swapped some idea pictures and settled on this adorable smiling baby cake. I made the head and body separate flavors so there was a little something for everyone. I was very pleased with [...]