Category Archives: general crafts

allow me to gush: a review of Action Pack

June 16, 2011 – 7:53 pm

[disclaimer: The review below is for a digital magazine edited by Kathreen Ricketson, the founder of Whipup.net. Many years ago I was a contributor to Whipup.net. Kathreen provided me with a copy of this issue to review free of charge.] Long-time readers of this blog know that I had to wait a long time to [...]

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family potato printing

April 17, 2011 – 5:59 pm

My beloved late mother-in-law set the bar really high for motherhood. Bill, his sister and Bill’s childhood friends all remember a creative ease that seems to have been around the kitchen table on a regular basis. It never sounded as though it was a big production or anything. She just seemed to always have a [...]

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last-minute valentine

February 14, 2011 – 12:59 am

My heart is always there but sometimes the hands of the clock move faster than my own in getting Valentines made. So at some point after the dishes are done and the bedtime hugs have been given I hungrily claim a moment to make a Valentine that’s long on thought but short on time. I [...]

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pimp my sewing box

December 29, 2010 – 7:28 pm

If you don’t watch a lot of MTV’s show “Pimp My Ride,” you might not know the meaning of the verb “pimp.”  “Pimp” means to fix up something in a fancy way to the liking of its owner. So last summer, when our daughter developed an interest in sewing, we decided that we needed to [...]

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giving the gift of hand skills

December 20, 2010 – 2:20 pm

My favorite advice columnist Amy Dickinson, of Ask Amy, is asking families to leave a book — new or used — on the bed of every child in America on Christmas Eve so that each child will have the first present they find be a book. I’m in. All four of the kids who will [...]

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