Seeing Magic in our Lives
We can see magic wherever we choose to, be it the fairies that skimmed by unseen or magic that flowed from the earth to brighten our lives. The magic of a spider web sprinkled with dew or the magic...
View ArticleHalloween!
Costume: Bad Case of the Stripes This week is Halloween! During the weekend many groups already had harvest and haunting fun. We participated in a Halloween chili cook off, trick-or-treat and...
View ArticleOur Favorite Halloween books
We have two books that we have loved since my kids were little. It’s exciting having a little one again after half a decade. My older children and I have been reading the first of the two to my...
View ArticleSteampunk
Putting out three posts a week has been difficult. With sick family, parent/teacher conferences, cars needing repairs and life in general, days go by and I realize there hasn’t been a post. I am trying...
View ArticleEscape!
My favorite thing about books and movies and even some electronic games is the escape. It doesn’t have to be from problems or hardship. Being fully absorbed in another world, another life, another...
View ArticleGeek Girl
Well. Here it is. The straight up truth. I am a geek girl. I love Farscape, Star Trek, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and of course I always can use some Doctor Who(especially David Tennant style!)....
View Article“I wanna be JUST like you!”
Father and Son Nigerian Dwarf Bucks. Blue eyes, Identical markings and their tails even curl the same direction. Many children have turned to a parent at some point or another and said, “I wanna be...
View ArticleBe a Dragon
I love these sayings going around about being yourself. My favorite, naturally, is about being a dragon. Maybe it’s a good idea to just be a dragon rather than yourself. Honestly I don’t advocate...
View ArticleFake Fandom Or The-Green-Thing is more interesting than a football
The Green Thing I live in the Northwest so you can imagine that there is a lot of green, blue and silver/white everywhere I go. We never watched sports on TV while growing up. In my home as an adult we...
View ArticlePuppets. A Profession and a Passion!
I’m a puppet artist. They are a life long passion of mine and an adulthood profession. I’ve been making these fun friends since I was three. I remember taking scraps from my mother’s sewing room...
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