Darling Daughter’s party was Saturday. We did a “craft camp” kind of party, with three different crafts that the guests rotated from table to table to complete. Oriental Trading was my source for crafty goodness, including sand art magnets, bead bracelets, and decorate-your-own paper watches.

Do you know what a fox sounds like when it’s stressed out? Well, Bob and I found out at 4am yesterday morning. Apparently, there was one very unsettled foxy camped out in our backyard. Initially, I worked the sound into my dream. I don’t remember what I was dreaming in particular, but I remember looking [...]

My sister, a Stampin’ Up demonstrator, hosted a card class last night. Ahhhh. Two and a half hours, uninterrupted, to just sit back with other lovely ladies and make stuff. We made two each of five designs. And of course I did a little catalog shopping afterwards. Here are my two favorite cards:

So I thought I would provide a brief summary of what I did (and what links I found most helpful) to set up my WordPress 2.5 photo gallery. I suspect in future versions of WP this will simplified, but I did quite a bit of searching on the codex and elsewhere in order to find [...]

Here are some photos from my brother-in-law’s graduation from Wharton’s MBA program. The rain held off during the pre-ceremony brunch, but the skies really opened during the announcement of the graduates names. Poor grads! Many were soaked! It was still a great day, and we’re all so proud of Sam!