Positively Charming Things

My husband and I started a diet, four weeks ago this Sunday.  We’re on NutriSystem, which so far, has been one of the better diet’s we’ve tried.  We’ve tried Atkins (lost pretty decently, gained it back and then some), and MediFast (lost ok, also gained back plus).  Atkins just seemed awfully strange, and MediFast was… lacking in palatability.  But so far there are only a small handful of NutriSystem items that I’m not fond of, and what is…

@AuntieMBoutique Aren’t these the cutest matching aprons?? She has several others in her studio, too, and also makes pot holders!

Sorry about that.  My blog seemed to have gone *poof* for a day, I suspect it was when I did an upgrade on my old WordPress blog software, it decided to overwrite my index file.  While I don’t use that program anymore, and no one can see anything in it, I am keeping it updated in case I change my mind and want to switch back to it. Anyway, my page is back to normal again.  Yay! And I think I *may* have solved my quandary over how to get my blog to post to several social…

I have an old painting that I started in my senior year of high school, which my then-teacher effectively ruined by painting upon it with her firm idea of what she thought I should be doing with it. Here is a picture:     I used a photograph from some book for the fuschia flowers in the background; the butterfly in the foreground was something I added to fill in the picture.  My intent was for the butterfly to be sort of transparent.  My teacher was not fond of this idea and…

Hi everyone! I took pictures of the bows I made for the craft fair I went to a couple weeks ago, and have started listing them at my Artfire Studio:

Since there were only two people who commented on my bow giveaway post, I thought it would feel odd picking a number or flipping a coin or whatever to choose one winner, so I have decided to give away a bow (or set of the smaller bows) to both commenters!  Yay, congrats to you both! I will contact the both of you via email to get your choice of bows and your mailing information.

So my last give away had a few takers, so let’s see how many will jump in for this one!  Leave a comment on this post to enter to win your choice of any of the bows in the photos in my last post except the ones with spikes & loops (those would be the 4th of July bows, and the two Easter bows that are in the middle, horizontally, in the first photo of just the bows). We’ll set the end date this Saturday night, March 12, and I’ll draw a winner on Sunday, March 13. …

It was a pretty small operation, but what better place to get my toes wet with the craft fair scene?  The entry fee was only $10, for a 10 foot space.  If I had had more product, that would have been a super investment.  Alas I had only one table, and pretty much took all of what I have in my Artfire shop, and spent one and a half weeks in my off hours trying to make as many bows as I could.  Yes, it was also a spur of the moment decision to jump into it, so I didn’t…

Since the winner of the stitch markers has verified she received them (and likes them ), I’ll go ahead and post a couple of pictures of them. I made some others based on the rest of the suggestions that were given to me in the contest but I haven’t had a chance to photograph them yet.  I might aim to do that this weekend, and post them for sale as well if I can determine what price I should list them for. 

I carpool with my husband, so I’m writing this as we sit in rush hour traffic. Why is it that very few drivers, when merging on an on-ramp from two lanes to one, do their best to try to get around the one by one merge method?  It’s like having to twist their arms to get the point across - no, you may NOT get in front of me, I already let the ONE car in that I was supposed to! And then the jerks that try to stay in a lane that is ending for construction until the last possible…