Posted in Looking Back, tagged 1940s schoolboys, Cincinnati Ohio, Oakley, snow, snow day, snowball fight, St. Cecilia Church, St. Cecilia School on February 28, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s supposed to snow again tonight. Drat! A “little” snow — I’m sick of a little snow. I’ve had to brush a little snow off my car every morning this week (or at least it seems that way). We’re at the end of February and it still seems as dark and dreary as January. February [...]
Posted in Just Rattling On, tagged Academy Awards, craft blog, MyCraftivity.com, needlework blog, not more snow, Oscars, too busy to blog, wish winter was over on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ll admit it, I haven’t been blogging much lately. I’ve been crazy-busy with work, bringing stuff home in the evenings and on weekends. It’s got me worn out, and I usually don’t have energy left for blogging. Today I got a welcome extension on a tense deadline, and it was like someone pulled the plug [...]
Posted in Holidays & Celebrations, Looking Back, My (Mis)Adventures as a Writer, The Hooligan Chronicles, Valentine's Day, tagged acid flashback, card-making, Cars, Disney, greeting card writer, greeting card writing, homemade cards, kids' Valentines, movie Valentines, Star Wars, Valentine bag, Valentine's Day, writing greeting cards on February 16, 2008 | No Comments »
On Valentine’s Day, I was at the Hooligan household celebrating with my sister’s family and my mom. At one point we were sitting around, listening and watching as J.Hooligan went through his Valentine bag from school, extracting greetings from his classmates and reading them aloud.
I have to admit this Valentine bag ritual is new to [...]
Posted in The Hooligan Chronicles, tagged Civil War memorial, Hamilton Ohio, ice sculptures, Icefest, rotten kids, Soldier's Memorial, stained glass windows on February 13, 2008 | No Comments »
All I asked was to take a couple of photos of the two Hooligan children in front of some beautiful stained glass windows. We were in Hamilton, Ohio, attending the ice sculpture festival a couple of weeks ago. I’d never gone inside the Soldier’s Memorial, and I saw no reason not to include that in our [...]
Posted in Just Rattling On, tagged F+W Publications, kidney stone, KP Craft, needlework books, quilting books, time flies on February 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s already been a month since I wrote this post about the January doldrums and waiting for things to happen. I guess time passes faster when you’re not waiting, just kicking hard to keep your head above water.
Regarding the job development: I got the position I wanted! Because my previous editorial position was eliminated, I [...]
Posted in Just Rattling On, tagged acrylic stamps, cleaning up, organizing techniques, rubber stamps, storage techniques, Super Bowl on February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
I don’t get particulary jazzed about the Super Bowl, and I usually don’t watch a whole lot of it, unless Cincinnati has a presence with the Bengals — which translates to “almost never.” I usually pop in at some point, if only to watch the commercials. Even they haven’t been all that interesting in recent [...]
Posted in Needlework, rug hooking, tagged hooked wall hanging, log cabin, log cabin needlework, rug hooking on February 1, 2008 | No Comments »
A few years ago I did a lot more rug hooking than I do now. I never made anything larger than a small throw rug; instead, I’d turn out little wall hangings (maybe 14 inches by 9 inches or so) like the one in the picture above. These weren’t planned at all; often I wanted [...]
