Chocolate the Moose: the story behind my new mascot

Part 1: As I plugged several times on here, my family and I had a garage sale about a month ago. And at that garage sale I tried to pawn off a lot of my childhood toys that just no longer fit my style of fun. Included in this group are the large amounts of Beanie...

it’s late and i’m still up

Since graduating college… well, actually, since about my 3rd year of college, I’ve changed my internal schedule. I used to thrive on the idea of going to bed at 3 or 4 am to then sleep in until 11 or so. I used to feel that if I got up before double digits it was too...

it’s hot and sticky

I love warm weather. I love sunshine. I love leaving work and not having to turn my headlights on. I love wearing t-shirts. I love going barefoot. But I can’t say I love Minnesota humidity. Nope. Not at all. But at the same time, I do seem to complain when the weather...

july+august=weddings!

Last spring I graduated from college. This spring I received lots of wedding invitations. Ok – not LOTS but 3 for some of my most favoritest people from Iowa City. And these 3 seem to fall within 4 weeks of each other (+1 Fourth of July vacation). Between July 3rd and...

the curse of the internet & much much more

Yikes! 2 weeks since I posted last. And I had ambitions of posting twice in 1 weeks. Psssh. Right. Guess this will have to do. I’ve been trying to rekindle my artsy fartsy roots lately because I’m getting a craving for scrapbooking or bookbinding or something of the...

years in the making

just as a warning, i feel a long post coming on… you might want a bathroom break now. Those of you who know me and my past photo projects might be familiar with the one so affectionately named, “Betty Crocker Country.” It encompassed photos from around my mid-west –...