The year is at its end, and it’s a time for a toast for all that happened this year. The good things and the bad ones, the ones I will never...
Birthday Cards
A week or so ago, Operation Write Home's Stars & Stamps blog asked for birthday cards. Before LSS Pizazz It! closed its brick and mo...
Snowflakes of Gratitude
There are two colleagues at work whom I wish to thank for their kindnesses when I return back to work. And, I couldn't find any nicer wa...
Speak of the Devil and ..
How strange that I write this today, when all I see is darkness and I am tired, so tired of searching for the light and hope. I am doomed, I...
My Most Treasured Gift...
Mom loved Christmas. She lovingly created memories that have lasted a lifetime -- starting with coming home from school to freshly-baked coo...
2 Challenges = 1 Tutorial
Challenge #1: The initial idea for this first card came from a post by Yolanda on this weekend's OWH blog hop/skip promoting the new OW...
My First Poem
Guys! As you might have guessed it already, I am going to tell you the story of how I wrote my first poem. Technically it was not my first p...
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images from a Lab final
OWH Sketch 99
The card below was made for this week's OWH Sketch 99 . I had a couple of thank you/gratitude stamps I hadn't used yet and thought t...
The Many Dreams of You and Me
Every single night its in your dreams that I cherish, in the long voyages that we take through uncharted waters, in the beautiful strolls th...
Scattering Joy
A friend and I went to a fabulous holiday concert at Capital University last Friday night with the message to scatter joy. So, I was looking...
Craft Show -- Take Two
For the sixth year, the McGraw-Hill Polaris office held a lunchtime Craft Show for employees, family, and friends. So, inbetween making Chri...