My dear friend Paige sent me this lastnight, and after reading through it all – BOY does it hit the nail on the head about me. Very interesting stuff! If you’d like to do your own, here’s the link: Astrolabe Let me know if you post yours on your blog so I can read it. […]

These ornaments are the best. 🙂 Every year, we make dough ornaments. This is one from the first year we made them, Caitybug and I, obviously Chickeymonkey was too little (she definitely looks like her nickname!). I have heart cookie cutters, a whole set of them that nest into one another, so we rolled the […]

Custom Winter Blog Skin Design (Graphics, Layout & Plugins!) Once Becky saw the design I did for MommaK’s blog, she headed my way to find out if I could winterize her place, too! Unfortunately, in the process, her server went down and she lost (gulp) all of her archives. Can you imagine?? The poor thing!! […]

In the early 90’s, hubby and I lived out in the San Diego area. Between wars (Desert Storm, Desert Shield), we were able to spend a Christmas together there before moving back to this frozen tundra. His mom had a ceramic shop back then, and shipped a box of blank ornaments for us to paint. […]

Another ornament from our tree, this one is a beautiful depiction of Bethlehem. I received this from my hubby’s mom years ago (it’s dated 2000). It’s 18K gold, the gold is paper thin which makes this an extremely delicate piece. It’s about 3 inches tall, 2 1/2 inches wide or so, and about 1/2 inch […]

I had intended on starting my “Ornament a Day” project today, so I will do that. In addition, I received an amazing photograph in e-mail taken by a dear family friend and coworker of my hubby that I have to share. My hubby does travel (from time to time, ahem.) and this last project has […]

If you participate regularly in the Thursday Thirteens and would like to see a blogroll separate from your regular blogroll with only Thursday Thirteen participants, please go here. I just created a blogroll *only* for Thirteeners, those who are regulars or those who intend to be may add their blogs to the blogroll, and put […]

Thirteen Things about Leanne, Thursday, December 1, 2005 My other Thirteens 1. I finally made an image for all/any Thursday Thirteen regulars interested in having it, you can right-click save this image: You can link it back to the Thursday Thirteen code page. At some point, I think I’m going to have to create one […]