Yes, it’s a pipe cleaner.  She has tons of the kids’ colored discards around the house.  She has batted them under chairs and couches, where they are surely collecting dust bunnies.  Our little wierdo gets hours of enjoyment in batting them […]

This is a recipe that the kids loved.  It also tastes good to adults and is halfway healthy.  Sure winner!!  I got the recipe from recipezaar.com, but haven’t been able to find it so I can link it to give […]

As you know, I like to design my little princess’ dresses.  I usually look around to get inspiration and then go to town by drafting a pattern that will hopefully fit. Lately, I have had a really hard time finding […]

I made these for the annual wine tasting at our friend’s abode.  They have a contest, and I won for the last two years.  Last year was my goat cheese stuffed figs and the year before was an artichoke dip.  Rich foods.  […]

Well, both Alissa and I are behind the ball, so we didn’t see the request for the theme to be self portrait this week until the last minute.  That’s okay!  We pulled it off!   I came home on Wednesday […]

Marriage is all about compromise. When we were looking at furnishing our basement, Brian really wanted a poker table. That meant no other furniture down there since we just didn’t have the room.   Me notsolikey.  Brian found our nice counterheight […]

Just a lazy Sunday morning.  Lazy because I am sick and didn’t particularly want to get up for 9 am Mass.  Instead we were watching the Discovery Channel, with Bear Grills and then a bunch of shows about the Pharoahs.  […]

We have had doin’s, goin’-on’s and fun stuff over here… Last weekend we traversed to my folks for their annual fish fry extravaganza.  I gained 1.5 pounds during the night and proceeded to eat salads the rest of the week […]

As you know…I tend to shy away from patterns.  However, you generally need the basic shape to sew things, so I do have patterns.  I take the patterns and modify them for what I want to sew.  These are few […]

This week Alissa and I are joining the fun of Team up Thursdays.  We chose cold as the theme, and ended up with snow pictures.  So…the theme could be snow, too! The pictures should be obvious which is which, but […]

The stereotypes are alive and well here