Because Whimsical Always Makes You Feel Better!
About 5 or 6 years before I retired from teaching... ...I asked an eighth grade girl why she was doing whatever she was doing in my class. (I don't remember what it was now, you can fill in the blank: texting on her phone, playing games on her tablet, talking to her friends, doing her …
Over the summer, a friend gave me a teacup. It was her favorite teacup, but it had cracks in it and couldn't be used anymore. Since I was getting into mosaics made out of broken china and stoneware, she said maybe I could break it and use it for something. I knew I wasn't going …
If you're ever at our house for very long, you might hear one of Mom's Agatha Christie audio books. I bring this up because of Hercule Poirot, the little Belgian detective who routinely caresses his luxuriant "mustaches". It got me thinking... that Hercule Poirot has nothing on me and my "mustaches"!So Mom said I could do …
Okay so I really like geckos. Well, not the real ones, they might be a little slimy, or scaly, I'm not sure which. (By the way, I got this photo, as well as the featured image for this post, from Pixabay.com.)I like to draw geckos, especially "talavera style".I even have a card with this design …
So I see Foster has told you about our new chair. If you've read either "The Puppet Room" or "The Blue Dresser", you already know that my front living room has been in a constant state of change. Or chaos, depending on how you want to look at it. It has evolved from a front …
We got a new chair! So this giant box came the other night. That in itself was exciting for me, since after all, we cats know that boxes are always as much fun as whatever is in them.Mom was busy working on something else, and I had to keep getting her attention until she finally …
"Foster, what are you doing in that bag?" Foster seemed to be deep in thought. We were in the sewing room, and Mom, who was busy making doll clothes, had apparently forgotten about us.I looked out from behind a pile of fabric. "Hey, Bro," I said. "What are you thinking about? And get out of …
In case you haven't noticed... I have been on a "mosaic roll" for awhile now. Awhile back I went outside to organize my "tesserae". (Don't you just love that word? It sounds so...well, artistic.) You've seen my outdoor mosaics and my "work station" on the patio. I can pretty much stay out here for hours …
Fact or fiction? Hi all, it's me, Foster, here to address the age-old question: "Do cats get bored?" Mom started thinking about it when she took this picture of me the other night. She was working on a mosaic at the kitchen table, and she happened to look up and here I was. She thought I …
"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house...nor any thing that is thy neighbor's." Exodus 20:17 But what if they're having a yard sale?I think I've mentioned (more than) a few times that I have gotten some really good deals from my two neighbors' yard sales. You can do amazing projects with yard sale items. But …