A Beautiful Mess

Hello, hello crafty friends, house lovers, DIY divas, neat freaks, lurkers and accidental clickers!  I don’t know if you’ve missed me but I’ve missed you!  Ever since getting into this new occasional shop I’ve been on a mission to finish as many items as I can as soon as I can so that I don’t have so [...]

Recipes! { Russian Salad } and { Potato Salad With Roasted Red Pepper & Bacon }

Rarely do I think, “I feel like spending time in the kitchen cooking today,” but yesterday I got a wild hair and these two salads were the result.  (Well, that and custard-covered biscuits better known as The Cream Puffs That Didn’t Puff, but let’s skip that so as to keep up appearances, shall we?) {  RuSsIaN sAlAd  } This is a [...]

My Illinois Tollway Funny

Something reminded me of this slightly embarrassing but funny Sarah story yesterday.  Maybe there’s someone else out there who can um, relate? After I got married and moved to Chicago with my husband, driving got a little more interesting for me.  Well, frustrating, but whatever.  (Have you experienced traffic there?  Jesus!)  There aren’t any toll [...]

A Quick Photo-less Rant About Why I Dislike Technology. Maybe You Can Turn My Day Around?

While reading this ridiculous post, please pretend you can hear the low, mean growl of a bear in the background.  It’s me. I was all hopped up to finalize today’s posts by getting them fitted with photos.  But then I got derailed by the fact that, um, I can’t upload any photos!  Which makes posting pretty worthless, right?  [...]

Hardee-Har-Har…

Been busy working on the March series posts…here’s a li’l funny for today.  I love these! Image (and others!) via http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wise-confucius Have a good one! 

I Like My Sugar With Coffee and Cream

Is it safe to assume that most of you like coffee?  What’s your poison? My old man takes his “light and sweet” with a ton of half & half and 3 packets of raw sugar.  My preference is espresso drowning in chocolate and raspberry flavors.  Which, lately, has presented a big problem. When we gave up our daily Starbucks to [...]

Oh My God, My Kid Doesn’t Care That I Have OCD

Obsessive compulsive disorder can certainly be a very serious condition.  My affliction is minor compared to, say, the awesome title character played by Bill Murray in the movie What About Bob? but nonetheless, it’s bad enough to have been officially diagnosed by a licensed therapist using the DSM-IV.  So even though the title of this post pokes [...]

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