Category Archives: living

Great Idea, or Crazy? You decide!

Hello again! I was reading Emily’s guest blog post about business cards (well, that wasn’t exactly the theme, but it’s what I focused on) because I am geekily in love with cool business cards. My son will even pick them up for me in a shop, restaurant, wherever. It’s cute, especially when we’re somewhere like, […]

Back from Boston

Well, once again, my worries about flying were for naught. We had a fabulous quick weekend getaway to Boston. Left Chicago at 7am Saturday – arrived on time, checked in to the hotel (early) and started on our day of shopping. Oh, did my son love that. (We were out from 10:30 til 7pm or […]

Things I’m Wanting ….. maybe you are, too?

Today, Starbucks officially launches its holiday lineup, complete with the re-launch of itsredagain.com. (Update: check out the Starbucks website today for Create your own Starbucks cards. I like “the Original” …. great for gifting, if you know your recipient’s favorite drink.) So far, I’ve had two samples of the eggnog latte (at my local Target/Starbucks). […]

Ribbon Embroidery: A Good Thing

photo scanned from Martha Stewart Living magazine – March 2007? Thanks to Martha Stewart (and her talented staff, of course) I am continually tempted to learn a craft that I really have no need for. It just looks cool, so I rip out the article, and think “some day”. Take for example ribbon embroidery. It […]

‘Tis the Season?

I know, I know. Today is Halloween. It’s still October for a few more hours. And really, I tried to wait. But when I was at Target a couple of days ago, I saw my favorite egg nog in the cooler. And because I know they run out at times (and also because the expiration […]