I receive such lovely holiday cards from my friends that I hate to throw them out. So, I came up with a way to display my favorites. Each year I choose 24 cards and cut vignettes from them that I slide into the windowed pockets of this quilted calendar. Then, during the coming advent, wheneverContinue reading “Quilted Advent Calendar for Recycled Christmas Cards”
Author Archives: mourningdove
Digital Organization Tips
I looooove efficiency. I love it so much that I have wondered more than once why I didn’t become an engineer. Very little can boost my mood as much as quickly as streamlining a process that used to contain redundancies and inefficiencies. I nearly cried when our city finally, FINALLY got single-stream curbside recycling. I’mContinue reading “Digital Organization Tips”
Emotion Board
I went through a traumatic life change recently, which ended up being a blessing. Like Mary Oliver says…. Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. “The Uses of Sorrow,” Mary Oliver In the months (and months!) of therapy thatContinue reading “Emotion Board”
SFO Botanical Garden Photos
A couple weekends ago, I escaped the heat and wildfire smoke with a group of girlfriends. We spent a deliciously cool couple of days in SFO’s Japantown, staying at the Kabuki and getting a year’s worth of dead skin cells scrubbed off across the street at Pearl Spa. Appetite piqued, we ambled through Japan CenterContinue reading “SFO Botanical Garden Photos”
The Rookery 