Violets are blue, I know a book lover, How about you? Do you have a book lover in your life? Do you want to give that person a unique Valentine’s gift this year? Many of you know that my daughter Liz is raising money to go on an AYC (American…
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Experimenting with an Acrylic Paint Pour
Last week I showed you the portraits that I painted for Christmas. This week, I want to share the acrylic pours that I did for my unofficially adopted daughter Tiffany. I confess that I’m not super comfortable with acrylic pours. They are messy, and there’s no way to really control the…
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Christmas Portraits
I couldn’t share my Christmas portraits with you before Christmas because they were gifts, but I’ve been looking forward to the time when I could put them on the blog. They were such a joy to paint! In September, I took a snapshot of my sweet Aunt Lori’s granddaughter when…
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Revisiting Memories
This Not-Quite-Southern gal reconnected with her roots last week for the first time in a loooong time! Our family has planned, reserved, and cancelled (for various reasons) several trips to the Texas Hill Country over the past few years. I get the sense that the good Lord did not want my…
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Looking Behind and Ahead
It’s New Year’s Eve, and I can’t believe it’s already time to put away the Christmas decorations, clean the house, get my boys ready to leave for another semester of college, and start my daughter on her final semester in high school. It’s a weekend for reflection, I think, and…
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The Wait is Almost Over!
For those of you who started your Christmas decorating right after Halloween, I know that you must be desperate to get the wait over! Christmas is only one day away! Hooray! Actually, it’s today for my family. Tomorrow is my nephew’s birthday, so we celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve and celebrate him…
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Putz Houses
For the first time this year, I signed up for a volunteer shift at the Junior League of Jackson’s Mistloetoe Marketplace as a Sustainer. I figured, “Why not?” I loved my active years in JLJ, but I guess I felt like a needed a break from Mistletoe once I became a Sustainer;…
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The November/December Juggling Act
How was your Thanksgiving? I hope it was memorable in some good way! Yes, you’re right: I did not post anything to the blog last week. I was hosting Thanksgiving, and although it was a relatively quiet dinner this year and we could all fit around one table, I was still a…
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Pre-holi-DAZE Bustle
It’s been a fun, but extremely busy October-November, pre-holiday season so far! Is it extra busy for you, too? Maybe the joy of waving goodbye to the shutdowns of last year have added additional anticipation of this year’s holidays? That’s all I can figure! It seems like we’ve had at least one big…
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Funding a Book Lover’s Missions Trip
My daughter has been eagerly anticipating an American Youth Corp (AYC) trip since her older brother took one to Costa Rica the summer before his freshman year of college. If the truth be told—she’s not much of a traveler, but she feels a call to ministry and knows the missions’ trip…