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Sooki is the main character in The Saggy Baggy Elephant, he’s happy with himself and life in general until a parrot starts making fun of him. Parrots can be such dicks. Sooki then tries ways to make his skin fit better, mostly by asking predators for advice and putting himself in harms way. Each time [...]

I know it’s Boxing Day, which is usually celebrated here (in the US) by sleeping in late, not having any clue what Boxing Day is about (it’s a Cromwell thing– right?) and trying to figure out what you really want to get with the store credit once you find the gift receipt for that mp3-player-toaster-oven-vacuum-cleaner-answering-machine [...]

Please don’t ask me where salad rolls end and spring or summer rolls begin, because I have no clue. I really don’t. I just like them, because they taste good and don’t make me feel bad about myself, and I thought since it’s quickly warming up that it would be good to share something that [...]

I used to think that saying meant something about actually stitching the fabric of time, and I had no idea that it referred to actual mending. I guess I’ve always been an abstract thinker, or a very twisted literal thinker. We’re still waiting for the roof to dry out enough so that we can repair [...]

Our house is from the 40′s– we sort of expect things to go wrong from time to time. What we don’t expect is for everything to go wrong, all at once, all the time. So there’s just a bit of water damage in the bathroom. Just a little. I mean, it’s not like we have [...]

Candy. Sushi. Candy + Sushi = candy sushi. I’ve wanted to do this since spotting this Make: How to. I made the rice crispy treat base, but everything else was a group effort with the kids right down to the roe eggs and oddly placed jelly & marshmallow frogs on the board. Lexi even added [...]

Craft withdrawal symptoms may include: Dizziness Nausea Vomiting Loss of Bladder control Uncontrollable urge to clean and decorate Okay, maybe we can skip loss of bladder control. I did dig out some of my vintage aprons and hang them on the wall, after cleaning the closet. Tacking the aprons to the wall looked off. A [...]

Nothing like baked good to soothe the soul. Except these are extra healthy baked goods with veggies and not much sugar. The lighter ones are banana spice and the darker ones are raisin carrot cake. The husband seems fine with them. I’ll test them on the children at snack time, if they’ll eat them I’ll [...]

Obviously I should make cleaning my desk a bit more of a priority, since the last time I cleaned it was somewhere in October of 2006. I think like most people I get a little overwhelmed with the stuff that might need to be saved for future reference and just make little piles. In the [...]

The old theme was lovely but starting to grate on my nerves, so I went back to the WP classic and tweaked it. Thus far I’m pretty satisfied that it’s readable. This was probably the fastest overhaul of a blog theme that I’ve ever done, in part because I wanted to keep things simple, and [...]