And love at first bite (as in biting satire, not actual vampire bites)

I have to thank Mrs. O. so very much for pointing me towards this wonderful alternate Twilight screenplay.  So as to choose a different favorite snippet than she chose, I’ll go with this one:
BELLA: Aw, you say the nicest things! I’m pretty sure you’re a vampire, that I’m in love with you, and that part [...]

Love at first sight

My brother Spencer got a high-def BlueRay version of the original Superman and my family watched the last half-hour of it with him.  Rose was very engaged in the movie, advising Lois Lane, “Don’t worry, lady, Superman will save you!”  When the movie ended, she announced:
“That was tootally awesome!”
Spen:  “Rosie, you’re my favorite niece named [...]

Pretty as you please with a cherry on top

On the day after Thanksgiving I took a holiday by giving myself permission to sew whatever I felt like sewing. This is hard for me to do, because whenever I go in my sewing room I’m confronted with heaps of ironing and piles of mending, and I feel like I should tackle those before [...]

Collage experiment

My cousin Laura was raving about how easy it is to make collages with Picasa 3, so I had to try it. It’s pretty intuitive and probably much quicker than my old way of making collages with Photoshop and Irfanview. The only problem is when it tries to second-guess me and gets it [...]

Lessons in marketing

Here was the flyer:

And here was the conversation afterwards:
Mabel: “Do you have any ideas for how I could make some money? The wagon thing didn’t work out the way I hoped it would.”
Me: “I think your problem is that it’s too cold and there aren’t any kids outside. I think you [...]

Donkeys have needs, too

When you build a wooden dream house for a wooden donkey,

be sure to include a wooden large-screen television for him to watch.

Enjoying the big donkey football game

All right, I’ll admit it . . . I enjoyed Twilight.

It probably helped that my expectations were only moderate. And it also helped that Dean surprised me this evening by asking if I wanted to go see the movie after I’d spent the whole day doing boatloads of laundry (really, we have these cute laundry baskets shaped like boats. Actually we don’t,) and I’d [...]

Chef Rosie’s newest creation

This recipe is called “Bread Grapes Sprinkle Bread Cup.” Not sure why.

Aquarium shoebox

Mabel made this for the “Fish Club” she started. So far she and Rose are the two members of the Fish Club. Mabel drew a fish tattoo on the backs of each of their hands, but I washed Rose’s off, to enforce our rule that we draw on paper and not on our bodies.  [...]

When you find yourself with an extra Coroplast mertail,

you might consider converting it into a play structure: