vintage (vin’tij): characterized by excellence, maturity and enduring appeal; classic
Kelly, my friend and blogging mentor, is hosting a great giveaway at Almost Frugal, just in time for the holidays. She’ll be giving away a Giftybox (valued at $100) – a fun and unique way to give a very personalized gift.
Visit Almost Frugal between Monday, December 1 and Monday, December 8 to enter – good [...]
My fellow blogger and fellow knitter Laura is hosting this week’s Holidays by Hand, featuring knitting. Click on over to One of Three to see what fun holiday projects she’s collected from around the blogosphere. My holiday knitting projects are below:
I posted a couple of weeks ago about my commitment to knitting through some of [...]
8:50am Friday Morning
Vintage Mommy: I need to call my cell phone so I can find it (cell phone begins to ring)
Vintage Girl: I’ll go get it for you Mom – here it is! (retrieves ringing phone from my bag)
Vintage Mommy: (looking at phone) Oh, a Missed Call at 8:50 . . . who could [...]
Vintage Girl is quite taken with the Obama girls. She was amazed by their bravery when they took the stage in Grant Park on election night, since she herself experienced a bit of stage fright at Carnegie Hall the John Hay Elementary kindergarten chorus concert last year.
And she is, of course, very excited about the [...]
This week Holidays by Hand is hosted by Kelly at Almost Frugal. I’m not at all clever with ribbons or thread, so head over to Kelly’s site to see some cute and clever projects!
And remember, my Holidays by Hand theme is food, scheduled for December 9th, and I’d love to have you submit a recipe!
It goes like this . . .
Open freezer door
Stare blankly inside, wondering why I opened the freezer door
Realize what I actually need is a teacup, which is not stored in the freezer (yet)
Go get teacup and wait for water to boil, then realize
Oh that’s right, I was looking for the meat to defrost for dinner [...]
This week’s Holidays by Hand host is Rachel at smallnotebook.org. Visit her blog for more fun papercrafting ideas!
I have a lot of scrapbook paper around. In the spirit of frugality, simplicity, and re-purposing, I decided that I would try to use some of it to make holiday gifts this year.
My idea was to make monogrammed [...]
I write another blog called One Bag Nation where I chronicle my journey to order, serenity and peace of mind . . . no snickering please!
One of my goals in this journey is to live with less stuff, and another is to be more frugal. These two goals are intersecting beautifully as I work through [...]
Many people, including those who have an open adoption, have their own definition of what open adoption is. Some variations on the theme are:
adoption records are legally open and adopted children and their birthparents have access to information about one another
birthparents choose adoptive parents for their child by looking at parent profiles (usually provided by [...]
Tsh at simplemom.net starts us off with ideas for holiday gifts you can sew.
I didn’t submit anything this week because sewing always sends me screaming to the nearest chocolate bar – or it did when I was a teenager. Now I suppose it would send me screaming to the nearest wine bottle.
In any case, Tsh [...]
