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 …
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 …
You've heard the phrase "You can't be too rich or too thin," right? Well, I have never agreed with either part of that saying, and neither have Foster and Panda. But there are some things you definitely can't have enough (or too many) of, and we will be addressing that here. You can see if …
So my neighbor was having this yard sale... I get the best stuff from my neighbors and their yard sales! So much so that I seriously have a folder of pictures on my computer, waiting to be made into a blog post about it. But for now, let's just start with the glass vase.I actually …
Okay, you really don't want to know about my "former" sago palm... Suffice it to say that I had to trim back all its leaves... However, I managed to plant it in the flower bed, so we'll see how it does there. It also had two "babies" that I will be attempting to plant as …
Have you ever just wanted to smash a plate? Me neither, really. But after playing with glass gems and grout on my "Whimsical Mushroom", and after my sidewalk patch "mosaic", I got another idea...Wouldn't it be so fun to make a mosaic on the little strip of curbing in the back corner of the yard …
Remember when I told you how fun it is to play with wet cement? Well, I still had some cement left over from "Just Add Water", so I got an idea...I have several places in my "whimsical" backyard where the cement is broken, and it looked like I had enough cement left to fill at …
Nana's Whimsical World 