Aarick says, “Huh? That title doesn’t make any sense. Oh. Is Shaunda on the chalkboard bandwagon? I thought so.” Well–Aarick’s mother is okay with that. Never be the first person on the bandwagon or the last to leave, eh? Confession: This is decorating according to Shari. Chalkboard from a garage sale. Chalk, 39¢ from a […]
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Confession: I am really, really good at providing problems. Solutions, not so much. I’m always falling in love with doors–some of them in literature, some on other people’s houses. I am scheming ways of quietly removing two chipped pale blue ones from a neighbor’s domicile as we speak. Did I say that out loud? Anyway,
Confession: The day before Kelly’s birthday, I suddenly realized I had no present for her. Uh–Large problem. Very nice, mommy. But it brought to my mind an idea from months ago–to restore the handmade dolly bunk bed my parents gave me when I was two; to recreate it for my daughter’s second birthday. Here’s how
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Confession: My favorite projects are experiments that happen to turn out well. Today I tried two. I found that you can turn a worn out little girl’s dress into a clothespin keeper. I remember my mom having one similar to this, made when I was a girl. For this one, I cut off the hood
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Confession: I love to lose myself in projects. And my happiest ones make me feel like a child patting mud pies, not going anywhere in particular, dreaming of an idea that keeps morphing, savoring the delightful sense of having all the time in the world to do this, just for fun. (…introducing holy escape #2…) My
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