Are you listening… for your calling?

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Whenever I see a camera around someones neck, my gut instinct is to grab it and start clicking. source Photographer types understand. It isn’t enough to capture something with your eyes. There’s this incessant need to see what it looks like through a camera lens. But it goes beyond a simple photo for me. I […]

SNS 99 – ultimate repurposes

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Welcome to Saturday Nite Special #99, the multi themed link party!  * Home Decor  * Crafts, / Sewing / Recipes * Theme of the week Every Fri 7pm  to Sunday 11 pm Pacific. ~ the ultimate repurposes ~ I LOVE to repurpose! And most of my projects (main link HERE) are all about that. But […]

The day we pulled the plug… on my outdoor reading room

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My pool’s days are numbered. FJI Facebookers will know a little of this story already. I was nattering about not having the nerve to unplug my pool for the season. I moaned and fussed and whined because the weather was still hot and sunny and I had come to use this little decadent part of […]

How to make your blog comment friendly

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This is not a new post.  But it’s a good one, especially for blog newbies. When I first ran this post, commenting on other’s blogs changed DRAMATICALLY. Gone were the word verifications and emails were finally linked up to comments. It was like magic. To date, the original post, shown Nov 2010  has received 167 […]

The ‘change my mind’ bistro table (with pallet sofa)

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I had a rough Friday. My last firetruck of the day didn’t go quite as planned (a post on my line of work is HERE) , so after filling up an entire garbage can of destroyed striping, I was ready for an easy weekend. You’d think 20 years in the business would have me a […]