Lady in a Small Town

I am going to try again to post for a whole month.
I am having the Sunday evening blues.  I have a hard time getting excited about going to school on Mondays.  And even worse, I have a parent meeting tomorrow at 8:00.  This wouldn’t be so bad, except I have been getting to school at [...]

[Read more →]

I love the stuff Amy at Good to be Girl makes for knitting, but I never make it in time to order the thing I want. She makes a lot of stitch markers for knitting. They are so cute, although, I don’t actually make anything that needs them.
So the other day when [...]

[Read more →]

Blue #1: It is getting colder by the minute.
Blue #2: I have too much to do and not enough time to do it.
Blue #3: The handle on my passenger door is broken.
Blue #4: The sky this morning.
This weekend was a long one.  MIL and I had a great time with our teddy bear photo shoot [...]

[Read more →]

My mother-in-law and I are making a scrapbook for her mom. Gramma P will be 99 on Christmas Eve, so for the first day of her 100th year we will give her a book for her life on Christmas.
MIL and I aren’t much alike and I am uncomfortable around her. This project has [...]

[Read more →]

I have spent more time painting over the last 2 weeks than ever in my life. I’ve been helping paint the set for Shakespeare and today I started painting the inside of our new bathroom closet. It was 800 degrees in that room. I also only got it partially done, because I [...]

[Read more →]

My friend Allison submitted a Peep diorama to the Washington Post contest. They didn’t win, but were semi-finalists. You can vote for the best diorama on the website. This is what she had to say:

PICK ME! PICK ME!
Or, rather Heather’s, Anh’s, and my peeps – the Post has a new page where [...]

[Read more →]