So Leo found this wonderful organization that allows us to share our money with others who need it. I’m pretty excited about it. The name of the organization is Kiva and it allows you to provide loans to individuals in other countries to help them get businesses going. Leo and I are lending money to [...]
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Kiva
Posted in Uncategorized on September 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Chickens!
Posted in Mountain View, chickens, farming on May 4, 2009 | 5 Comments »
So Leo and I have jumped in and purchased eight baby chicks. They were hatched two weeks ago today. Right now they are living in a plastic tub with a heat lamp out in Leo’s shop. We kept putting off buying them until we read up more on what kinds to get and how to [...]
Arkansas Ice Storm
Posted in Mountain View, Winter on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the end of January, we had an intense ice storm hit Mountain View and other parts of Arkansas and the south. The weight of the ice took down power lines, power poles, and lots and lots of trees. All of Mountain View was powerless for several days. We lost power on a Tuesday afternoon. [...]
Valentine Chairs!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
For Valentine’s Day, I bought myself some new chairs I found at an antique mall. I LOVE them! They were super cheap, and they are a little worn, but I don’t care. I love them…and Olive does too. She did a little model shoot for me in them, which I will now share with you!
Art Time for the Womyn
Posted in Mountain View, art, handmade, painting, watercolor on January 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Last Sunday, I attended my first “Art time for the womyn” gathering. A friend of mine from work hosted this event. A small group of us are getting together once a month to create whatever we feel like creating. I worked on a watercolor painting. For not touching watercolors since college, it wasn’t too bad.
I [...]
Learning to crochet…
Posted in crochet, handmade on January 18, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I’m learning to crochet. One Saturday at work, a lady sat down at my desk with me for an hour or so and showed me how to make a granny square and since then I’ve been hooked. The first thing I made was this very simple chain necklace. It uses a funky ribbon thread, but [...]
Leo & Olive…my little family
Posted in Mountain View, kitten on January 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I started this post a couple weeks ago. It’s kind of sad now, because it may be a “In Memory of Olive” post. We haven’t seen her since Friday afternoon. Who thought that I would ever mourn the loss of a cat? But I’m pretty darn depressed. Our best scenario: She was pregnant and she [...]
A wonderful Christmas…
Posted in Christmas, Gifts, Holidays, Winter, kitten, mandolin, volkswagen on January 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
People gave me some really great things…
Janette magically found the perfect vintage swimsuit for me!
Leo is restoring Samson for me! (That’s my 1972 Volkswagen Beetle that I paid cash for with my Sonic Carhop money when I was 16). I destroyed Sam’s engine back in college, and he’s been collecting dust ever since. Now Leo [...]
Ho-ho-made Christmas Part II
Posted in Christmas, Holidays, Winter, handmade, sewing on December 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, Christmas is over. We returned from Washington, Missouri to Mountain View yesterday. It was a wonderful holiday with my family and with Leo’s family. As usual, my family went over-the-top with piles and piles of presents! Too many to fit under or even around my parent’s tree. But it’s always fun to see what [...]
Ho-ho-made Christmas
Posted in Uncategorized on December 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I decided that this Christmas I have more free time than I ever have before and I’m not exactly bringing in the big money right now either, so it would be a great year for homemade Christmas gifts. But, of course, being me, I decide to do all handmade gifts about a month before the [...]
