tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708549450327586072024-02-07T05:00:39.715-08:00Chronicles of the Singularly Ordinarysingularly ordinaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08441722656274360223noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370854945032758607.post-54300924735814530032012-08-04T14:07:00.002-07:002012-08-05T19:39:04.154-07:00July<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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And so.... you've probably all decided that we'd never write anything again, but here I am! It's been a busy spring and summer. Really fun and exciting things happening! I guess I'll just pick up from here. I haven't kept up with OLW overly well, so I haven't been doing the blog hop. I hope to work on that soon. The month of July was sort of "adventure month" for me. I went zip-lining, which sounds not that exciting and totally exciting to me, just depending on what kind of mood I'm in. But whether it's really adventurous or not, by the time I actually got there and got up onto the two story structure to jump off, I was a wreck and almost went back down the ladder to wait! But I did it. I jumped off that platform with only a harness hanging from line to hold me. Every time I jumped it was soooo scary, but riding down the rope was sooo fun! Crazy stuff. I'm glad I didn't go back down the ladder. It was worth the scary. <br />
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Then a week later I set off with 16 other people from our church to Kayenta, Arizona to the Navajo Nation to do a Vacation Bible School with the church of Christ there for 4 days. 2 days out and 2 days back, with 5 days there was a long trip for all of us. But it was great! We got to do some sight-seeing (Grand Canyon!!!) and it was really neat to meet the people there and see a little of how they live and what they're like. I've never been to a more friendly place than the Navajo nation and it was beautiful. The missionaries in that town are doing a great work and we had a great turn out for VBS. It was fun to meet all the kids and get to know a few of them a little bit. <br />
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On one night they made Navajo tacos for us. Yum! It's taco toppings on fried bread. I got to help make the fried bread. So much fun! They had a tub of dough and you'd pull out a handful and shape it into a tortilla shape. You squish the edges flat and then start passing it from one hand to the other and it gets bigger and flatter. Until you drop it in the floor. But they were very nice and had me try again.....and again... until I made some good ones. I only dropped two! Of course, that's two more than anyone else, but there you go. I made several good ones after that and had so much fun! The people there were so nice to let me try again. The tacos were really good and I'm hoping to make some here at home. I just need the recipe.... </div>
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The VBS was a success, I think, and it was great to get to know some of the Navajo people and the missionaries there and the people from here that we traveled with. </div>
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And then to top off the whole crazy, wonderful trip, I helped drive the church bus home!!! I've never driven the church bus (or any bus) before and I drove it home, pulling a small trailer! The only disappointing thing of it all is that no one got a picture of it. But I have witnesses! It did happen! <br />
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<br /></div>singularly ordinaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08441722656274360223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370854945032758607.post-28450522370198436292012-04-13T18:53:00.001-07:002012-04-13T18:53:26.888-07:00What to do....So, I'm reading Emma by Jane Austen and getting near the end. Part of me wants to just start reading and not stop until it's over. It's so good! But if I read it all, then it will be over. Sigh. What do I do???singularly ordinaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08441722656274360223noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370854945032758607.post-59603478787534833622012-04-09T18:38:00.000-07:002012-04-09T18:39:09.301-07:00100th Day<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;">My Grandma always said you plant beans on the 100th day of the year, so this morning I got up in the fog and the mud and planted beans. When I say it that way it sounds unpleasant, but really it was nice. I like a good bit of mud. If you don't think of it as dirty it can be quite luxurious. The fog was okay. At least it wasn't hot. And it was quiet and the fog makes the sounds and the sights soft and pretty. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;"> This is obviously not a picture of my beans. I checked this afternoon. They haven't sprouted yet. ;-) Maybe tomorrow.</span></div>singularly ordinaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08441722656274360223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370854945032758607.post-47965319786068660972012-04-01T06:28:00.000-07:002012-04-01T06:28:35.857-07:00April OLW Blog Hop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm7qG0MG3sJeLC9OqWQXOmND3fZGVF6DWJGptxmfEqsNWJoSAHnITIBMf01VKEd4zrxDpmCKYm1ljwv57pNpOIQTZgJ_updEHlS7aRoHBUkFwaLUhqvOyV0gxtwffCIU4YksY-jXKxKlg/s1600/Sdc17235.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm7qG0MG3sJeLC9OqWQXOmND3fZGVF6DWJGptxmfEqsNWJoSAHnITIBMf01VKEd4zrxDpmCKYm1ljwv57pNpOIQTZgJ_updEHlS7aRoHBUkFwaLUhqvOyV0gxtwffCIU4YksY-jXKxKlg/s320/Sdc17235.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Welcome to the hop!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">So this month we were supposed to take Action! I was a tad stumped for a bit. I'd already been doing some things and I didn't want to just write what I'd already started. So I was trying to think what I could do to have more grace, be more graceful, something! At that point I realized I had an idea of what "grace" means, but not a real definite idea. So my one little thing was a word study. It wasn't a huge thing. I just looked it up in a couple of dictionaries and my Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words. Grace means a lot of things! So instead of writing the whole thing out here, I chose a few of my favorites that were kind of what I had in mind for my word when I chose it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">My very favorite, the one I think best fits the idea I had was from Vine's. It's one of the meanings of the Greek word (pronounced charis) that is translated "grace":</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">That which bestows or occasions pleasure, delight, or causes favorable regard; it is applied to beauty or gracefulness of person, act or speech.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> The friendly disposition from which the kindly act proceeds, graciousness, lovingkindness, goodwill generally. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I like those. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">From the dictionary my favorites were: </span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Beauty or harmony of motion, form, manner, or proportion. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Favor or service freely rendered; goodwill.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The act of showing or granting such favor. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I think the study has helped me with my word. It was fun to look it up, write it out and all that lovely stuff. :-) Here's what my pages look like.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Missus Wookie </span><a href="http://www.mrswookieswanderings.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">http://www.mrswookieswanderings.blogspot.co.uk/</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Cindy </span><a href="http://seriousplay.typepad.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">http://seriousplay.typepad.com</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Beth </span><a href="http://www.thesingularlyordinary.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">www.thesingularlyordinary.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> <------------you Are here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Tere </span><a href="http://terecontodomicorazon.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">http://terecontodomicorazon.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> <------------you Go here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Kelly </span><a href="http://mindingmynest.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">http://mindingmynest.com</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Heidi </span><a href="http://mommy.heidimdavis.com/" target="_blank" title="http://mommy.heidimdavis.com"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">http://mommy.heidimdavis.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I spent a couple hours weeding today. My poor herb garden was completely overgrown with weeds of one kind or another. It isn't finished, but you can tell it's a garden again. A winter so warm that it never killed the grass made for a lot of extra weeds in the spring! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">There are so many bugs out in the garden. I remind myself it's a good thing. That means the soil and grass are healthy enough that a bug would want to live there. It wasn't that way when we moved in here oh so many years ago! But now things grow. I watched an inch worm inch his way across a branch of a rose bush, green squishy caterpillars crawling here and there and I wonder what they'll turn out to be. Will they be a beautiful butterfly, flying around our yard someday? Or a moth coming in to eat my clothes? The hope of a butterfly keeps me from getting rid of them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Instead of having one big garden, I have several little gardens. I like it that way. They all seem so small and sweet. I wonder what will go in them this year. Time to start planning pretty soon. Anybody have any tips on growing squash? I'd love to grow squash, but they never turn out right. But I'll probably try again this year. Ever hopeful!</span>singularly ordinaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08441722656274360223noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370854945032758607.post-10437675563329048392012-03-24T15:12:00.000-07:002012-03-24T15:12:56.099-07:00Bird's Nest Necklace<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Aren't these sweet?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> A while back my mom found them on one of the blogs she reads with a link to this </span><a href="http://www.lovestitched.com/guest-tutorial/how-to-make-a-momma-bird-necklace-guest-tutorial/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">tutorial</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">. These are so cute that we had to try it. We've had a lot of fun with them. The site my mom first saw used silver wire for the nest, which was really pretty, but we found this brown wire and aside from the fact that brown is my favorite color, it seemed very appropriate for a birds nest. </span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Courier New;">They were so fun to make it was almost a shame that they came together so quickly! But that was probably part of what made it so fun!</span>singularly ordinaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08441722656274360223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370854945032758607.post-39160074031205645092012-03-15T15:00:00.001-07:002012-03-15T15:00:04.624-07:00Do you know what it is?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjos6J9-8LufosJfeO0-A1J76uksVfjyOfWja3ZwwrX7vNraNkw9UwMFhlU5WngsBgaSwmx88SV4nV7HGmoGnndbubPu0HJtfqAiZH2At-u-RR8WiprLCU3WfcYehT4HXIBaaiFZh3q0Nw/s1600/SDC17069.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjos6J9-8LufosJfeO0-A1J76uksVfjyOfWja3ZwwrX7vNraNkw9UwMFhlU5WngsBgaSwmx88SV4nV7HGmoGnndbubPu0HJtfqAiZH2At-u-RR8WiprLCU3WfcYehT4HXIBaaiFZh3q0Nw/s320/SDC17069.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Something we saw at Goodwill. We tried, but we couldn't make sense of it, but they had lots of them and they were packaged 4 to a set. Any suggestions? singularly ordinaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08441722656274360223noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370854945032758607.post-89884488574818670972012-03-14T20:48:00.000-07:002012-03-14T20:48:42.461-07:00T-Shirt Makeover<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">So this morning I decided I needed to make something. So I decided to re-do a t-shirt. I went to Goodwill to get one that I didn't mind ruining, in case it didn't work out... It often doesn't work out. But I'm pretty happy with the results this time! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I made a ribbon casing on the front with two buttonholes in the middle -- we won't go into how using the buttonholer on the sewing machine worked out. Let's just say I'm pretty happy with my handmade buttonholes. :-) I put some ribbon through the casing, sewed it on and it was all done. I may have to try this again sometime! </span>singularly ordinaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08441722656274360223noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370854945032758607.post-23844115210862413392012-03-12T15:23:00.000-07:002012-03-12T15:23:58.420-07:00I feel like a tiny bird with a Great Big songI just heard this quote a few weeks ago and like it very much. The last couple of weeks I think of it as I hear a mockingbird singing in the morning. My favorite bird. :) It makes me happy every morning to hear his songs. He has quite a repertoire.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I thought at the beginning of the month how easy this prompt was going to be with this word and that I'd get it done in no time, so I ended up not doing it until the end, for the most part. It's a good thing that it was an easy prompt for this word. The pictures are of things that I am thankful for and of things that I am doing or hope/plan to do to get more grace. Starting from the upper left corner the pictures are: 1. Henbit (a weed that grows here in abundance and is really so pretty. It seemed like a grace because we really don't do anything to get it, it just comes up on its own. 2. Music/piano. I love music and I want to start practicing it more so I'll be more graceful with my piano playing. 3. Exercise. To be more graceful in general. 4. A page from my planner. I've started trying to write things down more and keep track of my days better. 5. You can't see it, but there's a picture of my family there, something I am very thankful for. 6. The Grace necklace my friend gave me for this year. It reminds me to have more grace. 7. More flowers coming up. In addition to the flowers being a grace, the fact that they are here in February is amazing and something I'm very thankful for. They're very early this year, but it's been so warm and wet here that they're growing. This summer it was so miserable and dry the plants all died, so this is especially a grace! 8. Doing things for others. I made the baby things laying there. 9. This one is for friends and for traveling, since I'm with a friend somewhere away from home. I'm thankful for both those things. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So that's my prompt. I had fun doing it. Grace is going well this month. I hope you have all had a lovely month and hopefully I'll be on here more in March. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Blog Hop officially starts at 10 PST, so I think this is a tad early, but have fun hopping!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Margie <a href="http://xnomads.typepad.com/">http://xnomads.typepad.com</a><br />
Melissa S <a href="http://blog.mshanhun.com/">http://blog.mshanhun.com</a><br />
Sharyn <a href="http://lavieenchic.com/">http://LaVieEnChic.com</a><br />
Kimberlee <a href="http://scrapsandsass.blogspot.com/">http://scrapsandsass.blogspot.com</a><br />
Jill <a href="http://jillconyers.com/">http://jillconyers.com/</a><br />
Cheri <a href="http://cheriandrews.blogspot.com/">http://cheriandrews.blogspot.com</a><br />
Cindy <a href="http://www.cynthiacrysdale.com/">www.cynthiacrysdale.com</a><br />
Jenn <a href="http://www.studiojenn.blogspot.com/">www.studiojenn.blogspot.com</a><br />
Monica <a href="http://scrapinspired.com/">http://scrapinspired.com/</a><br />
Catherine <a href="http://myview-catherine.blogspot.com/">http://myview-catherine.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Naomi <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://poeticaperture.com/" target="_self" title="http://poeticaperture.com/">http://poeticaperture.com/</a></span><br />
Jamie <a href="http://jmpgirl.blogspot.com/">jmpgirl.blogspot.com</a><br />
Coley <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.coleybelle.blogspot.com" target="_self" title="www.coleybelle.blogspot.com">www.coleybelle.blogspot.com</a></span><br />
Melissa C <a href="http://www.smudgetime.com/">www.smudgetime.com</a><br />
Donna <a href="http://holimess.blogspot.com/">http://holimess.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Monica B <a href="http://questtoperfectimperfection.blogspot.com/">http://questtoperfectimperfection.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Veronica <a href="http://www.veronicanorris.typepad.com/">www.veronicanorris.typepad.com</a><br />
Heidi D <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://mommy.heidimdavis.com/" target="_self" title="http://mommy.heidimdavis.com/">http://mommy.heidimdavis.com/</a></span><br />
Lisa <a href="http://backtoallen.com/category/one-little-word/">http://backtoallen.com/category/one-little-word/</a><br />
Nikki <a href="http://www.inkyart.com.au/">www.inkyart.com.au</a><br />
Devon <a href="http://www.youhadmeatneurotic.com/">http://www.youhadmeatneurotic.com</a><br />
Amanda <a href="http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com/">http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com</a><br />
Brooklyn <a href="http://www.everysnapshot.com/">www.everysnapshot.com</a><br />
Kristina <a href="http://hrinspirationfromthe403.blogspot.com/">http://hrinspirationfromthe403.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Jen R <a href="http://jenritchie.com/" target="_self" title="http://jenritchie.com">http://jenritchie.com</a><br />
Kara <a href="http://iwannabemewhenigrowup.blogspot.com/">http://iwannabemewhenigrowup.blogspot.com</a><br />
Eydie <a href="http://www.whatwecreate.net/">www.whatwecreate.net</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span><br />
Ruth <a href="http://suburbansahm.blogspot.com/">http://suburbansahm.blogspot.com</a><br />
Missus W <a href="http://www.mrswookieswanderings.blogspot.com/">http://www.mrswookieswanderings.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Marilee <a href="http://rose-brier.blogspot.com/">http://rose-brier.blogspot.com</a> <br />
Cindy <a href="http://seriousplay.typepad.com/">http://seriousplay.typepad.com</a><br />
Kaylea <a href="http://www.myscrappylife.com/">http://www.myscrappylife.com</a><br />
Dawn G <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.sunshineandcreativity.com" target="_self" title="www.sunshineandcreativity.com">www.sunshineandcreativity.com</a></span><br />
Rebekah <a href="http://istampscrapcraft.blogspot.com/">http://istampscrapcraft.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Becky <a href="http://www.becky-handforth.blogspot.com/">www.becky-handforth.blogspot.com</a><br />
Orange Gearle <a href="http://orangegearle.blogspot.com/">orangegearle.blogspot.com</a><br />
Katrina <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.katrinasimeck.com" target="_self" title="www.katrinasimeck.com">www.katrinasimeck.com</a></span><br />
Jo <a href="http://www.mrsbeee.blogspot.com/">http://www.mrsbeee.blogspot.com</a> <br />
Nicky <a href="http://www.seejanebake.blogspot.com/">Www.seejanebake.blogspot.com</a><br />
Beth <a href="http://www.thesingularlyordinary.blogspot.com/">www.thesingularlyordinary.blogspot.com</a> <---You are Here<br />
Kelly <a href="http://mindingmynest.com/">http://mindingmynest.com</a> <-----You go Here<br />
Tere <a href="http://terecontodomicorazon.blogspot.com/">http://terecontodomicorazon.blogspot.com/</a><br />
<iframe frameborder="0" height="0" id="stSegmentFrame" name="stSegmentFrame" scrolling="no" src="http://seg.sharethis.com/getSegment.php?purl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogger.com%2Fpost-create.g%3FblogID%3D2370854945032758607&jsref=&rnd=1330545206340" style="display: none;" width="0"></iframe>singularly ordinaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08441722656274360223noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370854945032758607.post-2078025324242178302012-02-29T12:04:00.001-08:002012-02-29T12:04:59.177-08:00Spring???<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnRtvy128gEQmUuLUTK_cCZozPcdjB5yywr-bNYzuLwfeOcrWAit5s5BqhMaomROTaWKT8S_SmQYBr6uYShqoCyQliyfAsaY7jhDq8_LzrSuzmuVWLklwZTjkxvhmI_6hYX76ag52Ssic/s1600/SDC17031.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnRtvy128gEQmUuLUTK_cCZozPcdjB5yywr-bNYzuLwfeOcrWAit5s5BqhMaomROTaWKT8S_SmQYBr6uYShqoCyQliyfAsaY7jhDq8_LzrSuzmuVWLklwZTjkxvhmI_6hYX76ag52Ssic/s320/SDC17031.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It certainly seems like spring here! Hard to believe it's only the end of February! I planted this little flower garden last week. We were at the store to get some humus to prepare a bed for when it's actually time plant things and were so tempted by the annuals! It really is lovely out, so we brought them home and made a little flower bed by our front walk. Most of these flowers have a beautiful scent, in addition to looking pretty, so it's lovely to walk by the bed everyday. I'm sure it will freeze again before Easter, but the beauty of the little bed here, is that it will be so simple to cover them and hopefully they'll live through the freeze and on into the real spring. :-) Right now there's no hint of a freeze at all. I love it!</div>singularly ordinaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08441722656274360223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370854945032758607.post-65299710856180761662012-02-09T19:35:00.000-08:002012-02-09T19:35:53.608-08:00scrapbook<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">So this is my first real scrapbook -- the first one of an event. I'm on my second One Little Word album, but that's a different sort of thing. I love seeing other people's scrapbooks and always think that I'd like to have scrapbooks of my things, but it seemed overwhelming to try. Then I signed up for this class on Big Picture Classes. Finish Line Scrapbooking by Stacy Julian. You just sort of throw it all together, in a good way, and it makes a great album! Here's a couple of my pages:</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">This is out visiting my friend walking <u>on</u> a lake! I live where it never gets cold enough to freeze a lake enough to walk on it. There were actually cars further out on the ice. Crazy stuff! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">There are ways to make the album prettier, but I wanted to get mine done fast. And I did! I got it done in a day. (And I didn't spend all day doing it.) I am quite happy with it and I enjoyed it enough to look forward to doing another one. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>singularly ordinaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08441722656274360223noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370854945032758607.post-10259180825776099802012-02-01T07:09:00.000-08:002012-02-01T07:12:11.022-08:00January OLW Blog Hop<div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is my first blog hop and I've very excited to be participating. I hope everyone is enjoying it!</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So this is what I did for our January project for OLW. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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We were supposed to use an 8x11 page and so everything would be rectangular instead of square. I like rectangles, but I have a strong aversion to 8x11, so this year is 8x8 and square. :-) I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. We were supposed to define our word and write a little of why we chose this word and what we hope to get out of it. <br />
So far I've worked on dressing Gracefully, which included getting rid of my two favorite skirts because they really are too worn out to gracefully wear them in public! Sad, sad day. <br />
Grace has so many different definitions and meanings. I almost chose gratitude for my word this year, but I went with grace, so I thought it was fun on the online dictionary I used that they had a little paragraph about how the word "grace" comes from the same word as "gracias" and "grazie" and all those lovely words that mean "thanks" in other languages, so I'm counting Thanks with the rest of the definitions and trying to be more thankful this year. I've gotten a bit distracted from my word as the month has gone on. It's been a busy month and I'm sure I could have used more grace for it all, but maybe February will be better! <br />
Thank you for stopping by and I'd love a comment! Be sure to visit the next blog on the hop. <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Margie<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://xnomads.typepad.com/">http://xnomads.typepad.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sharyn<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://www.lavieenchic.com/"><span style="color: blue;">www.lavieenchic.com</span></a><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Jill<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://jillconyers.com/">http://jillconyers.com</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Lynn<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://www.crafty-creativity.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">www.crafty-creativity.blogspot.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Jenn<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://www.studiojenn.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">www.studiojenn.blogspot.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Carmen<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u style="text-underline: blue;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.carmenpaulsorthner.com</span></u><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Marilee<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://rose-brier.blogspot.com/">http://rose-brier.blogspot.com</a><u style="text-underline: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Kristina<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://hrinspirationfromthe403.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://hrinspirationfromthe403.blogspot.com/</span></a><u style="text-underline: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Cindy<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>C<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://www.cynthiacrysdale.com/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.cynthiacrysdale.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Kelly<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://mindingmynest.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://mindingmynest.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Cheri<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://cheriandrews.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://cheriandrews.blogspot.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Amanda<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Cindy<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://seriousplay.typepad.com/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://seriousplay.typepad.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Brooke<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u style="text-underline: blue;"><span style="color: blue;">www.everysnapshot.com</span></u><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Naomi<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u style="text-underline: blue;"><span style="color: blue;">www.poeticaperture.com</span></u><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Melissa<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://www.smudgetime.com/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.smudgetime.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Karen<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://breathenowsmile.blogspot.com/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://breathenowsmile.blogspot.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Melissa S<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://blog.mshanhun.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://blog.mshanhun.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Devon<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://www.youhadmeatneurotic.com/">http://www.youhadmeatneurotic.com</a><u style="text-underline: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Donna <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u style="text-underline: blue;"><span style="color: blue;">http://holimess.blogspot.com/</span></u> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Dawn<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u style="text-underline: blue;"><span style="color: blue;">sunshineandcreativity.com<o:p></o:p></span></u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Katrina <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u style="text-underline: blue;"><span style="color: blue;">www.katrinasimeck.com</span></u><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sam<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://learncreatedo.wordpress.com/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://learncreatedo.wordpress.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Monica <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://scrapinspired.com/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://scrapinspired.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Kimberlee<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://scrapsandsass.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://scrapsandsass.blogspot.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Missus W<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://mrswookieswanderings.blogspot.com/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://mrswookieswanderings.blogspot.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Kaylea <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://www.myscrappylife.com/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.myscrappylife.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Nikki<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://www.inkyart.com.au/"><span style="color: blue;">Www.inkyart.com.au</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Erin<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://erinsparkes.typepad.com/optimstic-fascination/"><span style="color: blue;">http://erinsparkes.typepad.com/optimstic-fascination/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Jo<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://www.curlyscrapbooker.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">www.curlyscrapbooker.blogspot.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Coley<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://coleybelle.blogspot.com/2012/01/focus-word-for-2012.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://coleybelle.blogspot.com/2012/01/focus-word-for-2012.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Beth<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u style="text-underline: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.thesingularlyordinary.blogspot.com/">www.thesingularlyordinary.blogspot.com</a></span><a href="http://www.thesingularlyordinary.blogspot.com/"></a></u><a href="http://www.thesingularlyordinary.blogspot.com/"></a></span><a href="http://www.thesingularlyordinary.blogspot.com/"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> <----------You are Here</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Veronica<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="http://www.veronicanorris.typepad.com/"><span style="color: blue;">www.veronicanorris.typepad.com</span></a> <----------You go Here<o:p></o:p></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Jamie<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://jmpgirl.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://jmpgirl.blogspot.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Monica B<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://questtoperfectimperfection.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://questtoperfectimperfection.blogspot.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Lisa <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://backtoallen.com/writers_blog">http://backtoallen.com/writers_blog</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ruth<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://suburbansahm.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0000ee;">http://suburbansahm.blogspot.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Becky<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><a href="wlmailhtml:{4AA3D31E-4294-475C-B978-94AEA145F83E}mid://00000203/!x-usc:http://www.becky-handforth.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">www.becky-handforth.blogspot.com</span></a>singularly ordinaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08441722656274360223noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370854945032758607.post-27010287154782230182012-01-13T09:56:00.000-08:002012-01-13T09:56:00.705-08:00NotebooksI guess we've neglected to say Happy New Year to everyone. So, I hope you're all having a great 2012 so far! I feel like we're a lot further into the year already, so it's always a surprise when I see the date. And I don't feel bad for not having accomplished more already. I don't need to get a month's worth of stuff done in 12 days!<br />
Anyway, on to the project. These are some notebooks I made in December. I thought they turned out very nicely, if I do say so myself, and thought they'd be fun on the blog. :-)<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I've always thought it would be fun to make a notebook, but somehow overwhelming to think about. But my friend sent me a link to a handmade one a few months ago and after a while I finally decided to try it out. I had all these notebooks that I bought for piano lessons, but can't use because after a couple of weeks, the pages start falling out. -- if you buy 5 cent notebooks at Walmart, be sure they're spiral bound. It makes all the difference -- We had planned to donate them, but hadn't gotten to it yet when I decided they'd be perfect. I could just cut them down to the size I wanted. So I got out our trusty paper cutter and went to work. In case you're wondering what great paper cutter I had that would cut all that paper together, I don't. I'm not sure, but it might be older than me and won't do more than a few pieces at a time. But it works. I added decorative scrapbooking paper, which is what really makes these fun. I just cut a bunch to the right size and randomly stuck them into the notebook paper. I'm not good with random, but I worked hard at it. :-) </div><div style="text-align: left;">The covers I made out of cardboard. It was hard to get the holes into the cardboard with the hole punch, but with help, they all got punched. I covered them with scrapbook paper and stickers on some of them. Some of them I thought looked nice just plain. I joined it all together with scrapbook rings and there you have a notebook. :-) </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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I wanted to make a cover for them. The cover is actually how all this got started. I was looking through a magazine and found these cute book covers, but I wanted these for a gift and I didn't know what book to cover and give, so eventually I came up with the notebooks. I ended up using some wide eyelet (my brilliant mother's idea), I folded it over and right sides together, I sewed up the bottom and two sides. I sewed a button to one side and a loop of ribbon to the other and there's a very nice cover. Very simple.singularly ordinaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08441722656274360223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370854945032758607.post-32623510666284779542012-01-11T13:29:00.000-08:002012-01-11T13:29:35.309-08:00in which The Distracted Dame wields a crow-bar to great effect<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Well, friends. After a long haitus from both blogging and working on my camper, afore-mentioned-in-many-words, I was tempted outside by a genuinely beautiful Christmas break Saturday and put in another installment of working on my camper. I thought I would share a few photos from the Day of Demo....</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How things looked in the calm before the storm...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My darling brother tearing out one of the cabinets</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The cabinet used to be over that wheelwell</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "kitchen" cabinet, in process</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nasty insulation under the cabinet</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cabinet, dinette and table GONE!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All of the trim, screws and hardware I could pry off and unscrew in an afternoon...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cute and classy!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>It took part of another afternoon to rip out the couch/bed from the other end of the camper. I am now pretty much down to the nitty-gritty work of pulling apart the walls and skin. I uncovered a lot of holes in the floor during all that demolition.... And I must admit, I am wondering if I'll have to reskin the whole thing as well as replace the wood. Sounds like I'll have to bring under real cover before I do much more!singularly ordinaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08441722656274360223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370854945032758607.post-46076208301740443862012-01-06T14:20:00.000-08:002012-01-06T14:20:45.375-08:00One Little Word<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I just started my second year of One Little Word with Ali Edwards at </span><a href="http://www.bigpictureclasses.com/"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Big Picture Classes.</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> Last year was a lot of fun and I'm really looking forward to another year of it. If you've never heard of One Little Word, it is a sort of online scrapbook class where you choose one word to think about for the year and each month you get a new prompt for your scrapbook. I don't know that I explain it that well. If you are interested, go to </span><a href="http://www.bigpictureclasses.com/"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Big Picture Classes</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> and search for One Little Word. My friend who lives around 1,000 miles away got me started and it's a fun thing that we do together that makes 1,000 miles seem not so far away. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> Here is my PreClass prompt (we got this one before the year started). </span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">As you (I hope) can see, my word is Grace this year. And so I will try to be more Graceful over the year. We can all hope, anyway! </span></div>singularly ordinaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08441722656274360223noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370854945032758607.post-85018005967616838222011-12-16T15:45:00.000-08:002011-12-16T15:45:24.667-08:00Fabric FlowersMy mom and I have been admiring these fabric flowers for quite some time now. So yesterday my mom found out how to make them! What fun! They don't take long at all and in a way they aren't difficult. In a way, they are. But here's what we have so far! <br />
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And, since Miss CQ posted such a lovely photo with her post, I feel compelled to photo-enhance mine. Hence, I give you.... My Brother's Thanksgiving Plate:<br />
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We are blessed beyond measure, and the food we celebrate with on this day is but one small example.singularly ordinaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08441722656274360223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370854945032758607.post-41337171965608047352011-11-24T14:42:00.000-08:002011-11-24T14:43:30.646-08:00Happy Thanksgiving<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope it's a great one!! </span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ingredients</span><br />
<ul><li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 2 tablespoons olive oil</span></li>
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<li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 1 1/2 pounds peeled and seeded butternut squash , cut into 1-inch chunks</span></li>
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<li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 1 large onion, cut into large dice</span></li>
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<li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 1 tablespoon butter</span></li>
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<li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 1 pinch sugar</span></li>
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<li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 3 large garlic cloves, thickly sliced</span></li>
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<li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon</span></li>
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<li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 1 teaspoon ground ginger</span></li>
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<li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves</span></li>
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<li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper</span></li>
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<li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 3 cups chicken broth, homemade or from a carton or can</span></li>
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<li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 1 1/2 cups half-and-half (or whole milk)</span></li>
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<li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste</span></li>
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<li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Garnish: store-bought apple chips</span></li>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></ul><div style="border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; width: 300px;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><h3 class="directions" style="margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Directions</span></h3><div class="directions" style="margin-top: 10px;"><ol><li><span class="plaincharacterwrap break" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Heat oil over medium-high heat in a large, deep saute pan until shimmering. </span></li>
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<li><span class="plaincharacterwrap break" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Add butternut squash, then onion; saute, stirring very little at first, then more frequently, until squash start to turn golden brown, 7 to 8 minutes. </span></li>
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<li><span class="plaincharacterwrap break" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Reduce heat to low and add butter, sugar and garlic; continue cooking until all vegetables are a rich spotty caramel color, about 10 minutes longer. </span></li>
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<li><span class="plaincharacterwrap break" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Add cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and cayenne pepper; continue to saute until fragrant, 30 seconds to 1 minute longer. </span></li>
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<li><span class="plaincharacterwrap break" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Add broth; bring to a simmer over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer, partially covered, until squash is tender, about 10 minutes. </span></li>
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<li><span class="plaincharacterwrap break" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Using an immersion blender or traditional blender, puree until very smooth, 30 seconds to 1 minute. (If using a traditional blender, vent it either by removing the lid's pop-out center or by lifting one edge of the lid. Drape the blender canister with a kitchen towel. To 'clean' the canister, pour in a little half-and-half, blend briefly, then add to the soup.) </span></li>
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<li><span class="plaincharacterwrap break" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Return to pan (or a soup pot); add enough half-and-half so the mixture is souplike, yet thick enough to float garnish. Taste, and add salt and pepper if needed. Heat through, ladle into bowls, garnish and serve. </span></li>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></ol></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span class="plaincharacterwrap break">I used probably twice as much squash as the recipe called for and </span><span class="plaincharacterwrap break">I baked the squash for 45 minutes at 400 degrees so it would be easier to peel. It's really soft at that point and I just scoop it out. It doesn't brown that way like it does in the recipe, but if you'll cook it for the same amount of time it comes out great. :-) Watch out with the liquids, though. I only used two cups of broth and then just enough milk to get the consistency I wanted. </span></span><br />
<span class="plaincharacterwrap break" style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I garnished with a cinnamon stick instead of apple chips. We didn't eat the sticks, but they looked nice. I meant to take a picture, but I forgot once I dished it out, but it's such a pretty soup. A nice dark orange. Serves about 6.</span>singularly ordinaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08441722656274360223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370854945032758607.post-73964055289783081842011-11-18T19:47:00.000-08:002011-11-18T20:31:10.739-08:00lunch with friends<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUYF0gbU0pMELm9AfNH7UZ1lg5fk1rCX1jg9hntfbm0uB8jVSERjuWkaqNforwNXFAdwo1pp5DkzetJ2_g72sORZ-c1udmOkBZJB4_MNJ01IuHbKBc3bhBpkS_u_5zJgLTYjNleya52nM/s1600/blogpic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUYF0gbU0pMELm9AfNH7UZ1lg5fk1rCX1jg9hntfbm0uB8jVSERjuWkaqNforwNXFAdwo1pp5DkzetJ2_g72sORZ-c1udmOkBZJB4_MNJ01IuHbKBc3bhBpkS_u_5zJgLTYjNleya52nM/s320/blogpic.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
Rosy tablecloth, rosy plates, rosy roses, yummy lunch and delightful company. Very nice afternoon!singularly ordinaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08441722656274360223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370854945032758607.post-21294775022892732062011-11-16T14:13:00.000-08:002011-11-16T14:13:01.906-08:00What is it???<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Great day at the thrift store. Found some very good things at very good prices! And then there's this: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcxnhiEMqYGji60BhTxFx46agIgMAgu14mavFbMixcnPpKtIZck5BQOnlIcfKN2QYK4Hj9yq36sYEOWbyO_o0SjTr2l-10buL2nP2np9Xx9ylJm5BMKiUUPvUR0WzA0-dD5SI9-Nyp1a8/s1600/SDC16436.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcxnhiEMqYGji60BhTxFx46agIgMAgu14mavFbMixcnPpKtIZck5BQOnlIcfKN2QYK4Hj9yq36sYEOWbyO_o0SjTr2l-10buL2nP2np9Xx9ylJm5BMKiUUPvUR0WzA0-dD5SI9-Nyp1a8/s320/SDC16436.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>Does anyone know what it is? The little black things are flexible and rubbery. One of my favorite things about thrift stores is the odd things that we just really don't know what they are... It's fun to guess and try to imagine what anyone could do with some of these things. So, any guesses? We couldn't figure this one out at all! --Oh, and I didn't bring it home with me, just in case anyone wondered. Someone let me know if it is a highly useful thing that I can't live without, okay? singularly ordinaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08441722656274360223noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370854945032758607.post-4630329121299437762011-11-08T20:54:00.000-08:002011-11-08T20:54:58.508-08:00the camper story, part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizzF7oGDO_jFxu9L9oHy5e2DFNn8KaWhNyWPcIXSZpi7vHApjLkMtIngn4Qa-WzYmfqXcDxXpGeizwKdKKRVuIKDPyh3PY-fzo4WZn3yWVQGfeepYT9UV4ZCEn6AReOdeR2qLPKNc2nm4/s1600/Blackberry+2+025.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizzF7oGDO_jFxu9L9oHy5e2DFNn8KaWhNyWPcIXSZpi7vHApjLkMtIngn4Qa-WzYmfqXcDxXpGeizwKdKKRVuIKDPyh3PY-fzo4WZn3yWVQGfeepYT9UV4ZCEn6AReOdeR2qLPKNc2nm4/s320/Blackberry+2+025.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>So, my boss, you see, had a tiny, old, beat-up, ugly camper. It used to sit behind the barn. Then it sat out front of the house, with a sign in one of its little window advertising its availability. This sign managed to attract the attention of exactly one interested party, but in the end, no one was interested enough to fork over cash and haul the thing away. So it moved back to the barn, and sat, forlornly baking in the sun and leaking in the rain.<br />
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Then I had a bright idea.<br />
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When one day I tucked into the conversation something about me possibly buying the camper, my boss hemmed and hawed just a little bit, then informed me that I could have it for free if I really wanted it. But it would need work, he assured me, to get it water-tight and livable. In fact, at every subsequent mention of the camper, my boss would try to assure me that I really wouldn't want it once I looked inside. I persisted. And finally, on my way home from the office one day, I stopped by the barn and took a look inside the camper.<br />
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The prevalent water damage, previous make-do fixes, and general age-related degeneration did not deter me. I knew that behind, around, or through all those issues, a delightful little mobile living space is hiding. And the more I surf Pinterest, the National Serro Scotty Organization website, and the web in general for rebuild photos and other inspiration, the more excited I get. Who cares if I've never built anything in my life! Who cares if I don't own one power tool! Who cares if I have no real idea how to upholster, wire, plumb, or panel! I have always been one to enthuse about learning when I have a purpose for it.<br />
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My Serro Scotty Sportsman Gaucho, which I finally measured today at 10 miniscule feet in length, is now sitting in my parents' sideyard. Realistically, the more I investigate, the more convinced I am that this is going to be a complete re-build project. As in, from the frame up. I don't anticipate a religious adherence to the original design, at least not in specifics. But thankfully, should I need to cut new walls and build new fixtures, I should be able to use the current (if rotted) pieces as a guide. I am a long way from picking out paint or even configuring storage space, but those are the fun things to consider. Life in sixty square feet... what an adventure!<br />
Consider this the "before" before post. Here are some photos of the Scotty in its current state. Expect in-process pictures to follow... although it may be several months before I am able to make that happen.<br />
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What has happened to me? In a matter of days I have developed an addiction to web-surfing for camper rebuild stories, which keeps me up into the night. I anticipate scouring online listings for cheap replacement parts, creeping construction sites for free building supplies, and learning to man a table saw. I even decided today that I probably ought to at least buy my own drill.<br />
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I repeat: What has happened to me? If you figure it out, please let me know.singularly ordinaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08441722656274360223noreply@blogger.com0