Coasting Along

Catching up on my journal, here are the December 12 and 13 entries. The 12th is about changes from Christmases past, and the 13th is about m...

I took a picture of my little tree today for the Christmas journal. We usually put up our 6 1/2-foot pre-lit tree, but I needed to rearrange...

It got so COLD here last night! I can't seem to get warm today, either...I'm about ready to search for my electric throw blanket, wh...

Here are pages 6 and 7, and the cover of the book, decorated:

Todd and I had a really fun day together today...first we worked on cleaning up the front of the house, raking leaves, etc., and then we sta...

This Christmas journal has become a holiday tradition all in itself--via Shimelle Laine's annual Journal Your Christmas class. This is ...

I climbed into bed feeling very sleepy, but then realized I was not. I hate it when that happens, it's like a false start in a race. I f...

I sat down just now to write a blog entry, upload a bunch of pictures, pour out all the splendid thoughts in my brain...and I've got nut...

My dad works at a school, and when I was a kid, he often brought home discards from the school library to help meet my insatiable book needs...

If you happen to be buying something at Amazon, and you need one more little thing to push your total over $25 so you can get free shipping....

So all last week, Google had Sesame Street characters on their home page, in honor of the show's 40th anniversary, and it got me to thin...

We went to a couple of estate sales this morning, but the pickins' were slim. I got: Last week, my mother-in-law was crocheting some clo...

While having a post-lunch cup of tea, I was looking out the patio doors and enjoying the beginnings of fall leaves in the backyard...thought...

Look at these cuties I found for 80% off at Ben Franklin today! I love it when you see something cute and you pick it up and it's so che...

...waved good-bye to Todd's parents as they headed back home to Ohio. ...watched "The Big Bang Theory" on DVD while folding la...

A year or two ago, a couple of Youtube videos were making the rounds on all the forums and e-mail lists--a 90-something-year-old woman named...

Todd's parents are visiting us for a few days. We went to the Edgar Allan Poe museum in Richmond today--an appropriate Halloween activit...