Entries from August 2008

August 31, 2008

warning: political views below

Oh, that speech.  Wasn’t it amazing?  I was impressed by so many of the speeches given during the convention, especially of the abilities of the “normal” people to speak in front of that many people.  Impressive.  I know I’m a little late blogging about this, especially considering the Republican convention has already begun, but I [...]

August 29, 2008

Meet Your Maker

Our next show is tonight 6-9pm at Midtown Marketplace’s sidewalks.  Come visit me and some really great crafters.
We have some sponsors that we’re really excited about too:  Craft Magazine, Venus Magazine, Divine Cupcake and more coming!

August 27, 2008

random updates

Summer afternoons at the park investigating pine cones.

This is the beginning of Ruby’s funny face when I ask her to smile for the camera. She got a new bike helmet yesterday – the next size up. She was so excited when we took it out of the box and wore it around the [...]

August 24, 2008

vote & eat

If you live in Seminole County, FL you have an opportunity to vote on August 26th.  My dad is running for re-election on the school board.   Your vote will have a huge impact on who is elected, so go check him out.
I made this zucchini bread last week and it rules.  I didn’t use the [...]

August 22, 2008

new link

Maybe you noticed the new link La Petite Book Shop on the right.  It’s a little shop called Amazon, maybe you’ve heard of it??  I created my own shop within them.  I gathered titles of books that I LOVE and categorized them for you.  If you are interested in buying any of them, and you [...]

August 21, 2008

CSA update and greens in your kitchen

CSA Report:

lettuce
heirloom tomatoes
beets
red bell peppers
potatoes
yellow romano beans
tangerine dream melon
blackberries
This is a guest post by John. Instead of telling me what to blog about, or blog about it himself, he’s going to write it here.
I wanted to share some of the things that we’ve done over the years to green-up our kitchen. I doubt [...]

August 18, 2008

random thoughts

Thanks for coming to the new blog – let me know what you think of it and if there’s any bugs I need to work out.

One of the things we try to remember to do to save electricity is to shut off our whole power strip.  Our computer is plugged in, along with our, oh, [...]

August 11, 2008

You found me

I’ve moved from blogger to wordpress.  I’ve been using wordpress with our Meet Your Maker site and I really like it.  Don’t get me wrong, blogger has been great, but I think I can get a bit more technical and learn a lot more along the way here.  So, go change your bookmarks!