Our sweet Julia has her first swim lesson today! The doctor gave the ok a few weeks ago after her last check up from her second knee surgery. She was nervous at first but quickly relaxed and became m...
Habit fulfilled your duties, until you found fulfillment somewhere else. I forgave, but was not forgiven. I extended trust, and no trust was returned. I bleed as I shed this skin I made with you.
Lately I have come to realize that I have lost my sense of self. Things had just gradually happened. I started to worry about what others thought of me and how I compared to them. I always wanted to ...
When I was in high school I had a tiny part in the school play. It was my senior year and the play was Fiddler on the Roof. I don't think my character even had an official name, I had one line a...
I have always made having a choice a priority and have achieved it through hard work, good decisions, good friends/family and a little good fortune. But what good is choice if I don't take a cha...
Today Julia turned nine! We celebrated with a pupcake, crowns of flowers and new coordinating collars for her and Abby! The pups LOVED the cake and hated the flowers. No big surprise. Julia's kn...
My forty days of no added sugar are officially over!!!!! Yay!!!! It was one of those stupid deals I made with myself to justify not doing something else. i.e. as long as I don't eat sugar, then ...
Tomorrow Julia goes in for *hopefully* her final follow up for her knee surgery. She seems to be healing much slower this time but besides that there is nothing slow about this pup. She takes the sta...
Leah Duncan's new line of printed fabrics are finally available! The patterns are so bright and cheerful. I especially love the........hmmmmm........ok I can't single out one, even two of t...
I got outside today while it was still daylight and the sun was shining. That is hard to do here in the pacific northwest lately. I decided to take a walk around the arboretum, which is just barely s...
It was nearly a year ago that I decided I wanted to try bead weaving. I saw these amazing bracelets by Julie Rofman in the Anthropologie catalog and I was inspired to try it myself. I bought an inexp...
Thank you all for leaving such thoughtful notes on my last post. I appreciate your feedback. This weekend was full of naps and book reading. Saturday I made this guinness-chocolate ice cream for St P...
I started maggiemakes about two years ago. At the time I felt like there was very little creativity in my life and I saw blogging as a way to increase my accountability as I tried to prioritize these...
Our first house had a rock wall covered with hen and chicks. When we moved I took a few with me and planted them at our new house. Even though I have completely neglected them they have continued to ...
Yes, another frozen treat......sorry, they are just so addicting and delicious I can't resist. This weekend G's sister came for a visit and made us this amazing lemon basil sherbet. It is b...
I have been obsessing about kilim rugs just a tad lately. Specifically the asymmetrical ones that mix earth tones with striking reds. We need some new rugs badly but I haven't been able to justi...
Atelier Volvox designers Samuel Coendet and Lea Gerber create their outsiders plush toys from rescued thrift store stuffed animals. They simply open, reverse and resew them to create "new"...
I haven't been able to stop thinking about Mari Foster'sbeautiful quilted necklaces since I first saw them earlier this week. They are made from vintage quilt tops and she embellishes them ...
It never fails. G goes out of town and something goes wrong. Usually it is related to the car (the car never has a problem otherwise) but once I also locked myself out of the house (which I have NEVE...
G's sister got him the kitchen aid ice cream maker attachment for his birthday. Yep, she is awesome! We have gotten hooked on making sorbet and haven't made it to gelato or ice cream yet, b...
No these are not gift tags. They could be if you used them that way, but I prefer to think of them as sweet nothings. I thought they would be sweet to print and hang all over the house, hide in lunch...
I decided to cross stitch a little heart from the postcard pattern. I attached a tie of braided floss so I could hang it. I think it would be so cute hanging from a door knob, dresser pull or coat ho...
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