Learning New Tricks: Floral Arranging

Here's my arrangement in all its glory!

I’ve always aspired to be one of those effortlessly creative people with an eye for design and color.  Sadly, those things just don’t come easily to me; choosing paint colors for the walls in my house was a spectacular trial-and-error affair.  Believe me when I tell you Benjamin Moore’s Incense Stick is too dark for [...]

With A Little Help From My Friends

Dishy

When I started blogging in 2007, it never occurred to me that I would a. keep at it for so long, and b. develop great friendships with people I’ve never met.  My now semi-defunct life blog helped me find a group of friends who have stayed true even when I moved on to the greener [...]

Face-to-Face: Meeting blog friends in real life.

I’ve been reading about the BEA convention all over the blogs, but what interests me most is the blogger-interaction angle–you know, meeting other bloggers IRL (in real life). I’ve cultivated several online-friendships during the last 18 months of blogging.  I email and comment with my online friends more regularly than I speak to some of [...]