Yesterday I ran up to Tacoma Boys to get a few things for dinner, and while I was there I heard the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing "Co...

We had our first snow on Saturday. Right when Kate and I were getting ready for nap time, we looked outside and saw big, fluffy flakes desc...

I ordered my book from blurb.com on Saturday and had it on Tuesday. Amazing! I didn't realize they were just up the road in Tukwila....

I got an email from a designer in Brazil who had used my red ribbons as a base for creating a ribbon-making action. She makes commercial u...

When I was less than two years old I stuck some corn up my nose. (Hmmmm... a familial fascination with corn, perhaps?) My mom called the e...

I think it's hard for a lot of people to get back into the swing of things after a four-day weekend. (Or I guess some people even had f...

I finished up all the contact sheets for 2006! After blogging about my archiving system I went on a tear and have been doing little else f...

Our neighbor Oleg turned ten earlier this month, and I got him a copy of The Indian in the Cupboard . He may have thought it was a rather l...

Years ago, my family adopted a pregnant cat that we named Fern. She had four kittens, named Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter (after P...

Kate has learned about playing hide and seek from a Max and Ruby game on Noggin.com. We play at hiding a lot, but we'd never actually u...

I like sorting. I can't really say why. I remember when I was little having great fun sorting my Halloween candy. I wasn't allowe...

Today we went to The Bouncy Place in Kent. One of Doug's co-workers told him about it recently, and we've been wanting to check it...

I used to be a really good letter writer. I wrote long, frequent letters to my friend Laura, wrote to my friends on missions, wrote to my ...

This is part of the mask for an extraction that I'm currently working on. Each one of those little edge hairs is traced in by hand, wit...

Back in September, I made some potato prints for Kate and we went out on the porch to play with paint. I put my painting shirt on her (pinn...

I haven't been getting a lot done lately. This is partly due to an external hard drive crash which left me with a damaged partition and...

I'm not exactly sure who decided that today was Digital Scrapbooking Day, but I am assured that it is. We're having a big 50% off s...

We went to the Halloween party at the church last night. I dressed Kate up in this cute pink tutu that her Aunt Barb made. (Barb makes co...

Kate and I picked up this pumpkin at Tacoma Boys on Saturday. When I say "picked up," I use that purely in the colloquial sense. ...

By request, here's the recipe, with comments from Doug. (modified from The Soup Bible , edited by Deborah Mayhew, New York: Hermes H...