Time to wrap up the 2014 Documented Life Project art challenges. Melinda and I have enjoyed each week’s challenges as a way to stretch our creative thinking and try a few new things along the way. Our last couple of … Continue reading →
Merry Christmas from Melinda and Jan and our families!
Continue reading →Christmas is 2 days away! Do you have any last-minute things you need to get done? I did! I wanted to make some cards for some family members for Christmas. If you have any magazines laying around, you can make … Continue reading →
I pulled out a book for my kids that we got a long time ago but hadn’t looked at much. The books is The Usborne Book of Famous Artists. I thought we could read about an artist then do some … Continue reading →
When I was a child, Christmas took forever to arrive. Now as an adult the time flies by so quickly I am once again thinking it can’t be almost the end of another year already. Christmas is 11 weeks away. Now … Continue reading →
Christmas of 2013 is over. The kids have all gone back to their homes. Lots of fun memories… There was lots of laughter, lots of good healthy food, and lots of dirty dishes (thankful for a dishwasher!) We did not … Continue reading →
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to register. … Continue reading →
Pretty soon Christmas will be over, the presents will all be unwrapped and put away, and then it’s time for the thank you cards. I know it can be difficult to get those thank you’s written, and because of how … Continue reading →
At some point our kids decided that having the same kind of dinner for Christmas that we had at Thanksgiving was not very exciting. When the kids still lived at home, we started a Christmas dinner tradition that has continued … Continue reading →
For the last several years, I have made corn casserole for Thanksgiving and/or Christmas dinner. It has always been a huge hit. This year, because of family diet needs and our desire to avoid GMO corn, I decided I wanted … Continue reading →