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We celebrated Fiona’s Fifth birthday with a Moana party theme. We’re still doing the parties old school with family and cousins to play with. And the Moana theme was truly a great excuse to reuse my fabulous palm trees over again from the Viva Havana fundraiser. I took a good long time to conceive of…
The fields are full. The corn is tall and as I drive through them, it’s like navigating a labyrinth. Walls where there were none weeks ago, soon to be gone again after you get used to them. Through the open window, it smells different. There’s a sweet rot smell giving over to patches of dirty…
I can admit without shame that I detest our country’s flag colors. Don’t get me wrong, I feel patriotic when I see red, white, and blue bunting up on people’s porches and the flag itself could bring tears to my eyes on occasion. But I really don’t find the color combination attractive otherwise. Wanting to…
So we made it to and through Fiona’s second birthday. And the party was a smashing success despite conceiving of it only a little more than a month beforehand. All of our efforts and plans payed off as 20 something of our closest friends and family came to celebrate with us. For me the party…
After my April post on traumatic stress had diminished, I began to warm up to Spring and the hope it brings. Eventually I was convinced by May’s visual barrage of green and the loud insistent chorus of birds to accept Spring’s arrival of Hope. We’ve taken strolls and played in new sandbox sand. Powerwashed and…
I was really forcing a smile when I wrote my first Spring post. Sometimes you put a smile on and hope to grow into it. I felt no love for the weather at the time. My faith was drained. But the earth, in the process of doing her ‘thing’, eventually she gets to you. April…
A couple of weeks ago, Winter began to expand its boundaries into some mythical time warp, like the last week of a pregnancy.Reality can be cruel. I used to say that by the time any season has officially arrived, we’ve already experienced enough of the upcoming telltale weather to believe it’s truly here. We’ll have…
My love of fresh flowers is deep and true. When I worked for Pama at Moonvine, I was very lucky to not only spend time with flowers but also learn their names and discover what I loved . And a party is just an excuse to order flowers to play with. I’m such a flower…
In 2004, this was the house that I rented to build the business that I named Bally Eden. Before I moved in, it was an insurance agency. The walls were wood-paneled and the floors had carpet glued to them. I completely renovated the space and it went from scary to very very lovely. This was…
I love brown paper stuff. It’s the paper version of burlap I suppose. I’ve discovered that the brown paper flowers can be used in all sorts of applications. Centerpieces and wall decor and Christmas ornaments. Paper bags weren’t in abundance at my house so upcycling went extremist when I grabbed the cat litter bag and…
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