happy stuff.

last night i fell asleep while reading a book somewhere around 9:00. this is extremely unusual for me and i was pretty sure i was going to wake up around 11:00 and not be able to sleep again until 2:00. what actually happened was that my lovely husband came over and talked me into stumbling [...]

the bread of the month for march is cinnamon rolls and i just couldn’t wait so i tried my hand at a “sticky bun” recipe from cooking light. no big problems the first time through! (i think i’m finally getting the hang of this “yeast bread” thing. yum. yum. yum. only problem? mr. happy stuff [...]

yesterday, i had to work three hours to make up for last week’s snow day. on my (slightly grumbly) way in, i looked up at the pillars of the wall that “hides” the dumpsters behind the chinese restaurant down the sidewalk from my job. on top of one of the pillars sat a small, smiling [...]

so, when i started making the pidoodle line, it was only jewelry and i was way more excited about making the packaging than about making the jewelry. pidoodle has expanded to new product lines in the last year or so and once again, i’m having to create lots of different kinds of packaging. sometimes this [...]

tonight in class, we had someone come and talk to us about genealogy research. she gave us a lot of information (most of which i’ll likely forget, except for the overarching theme of “look beyond just your family name!”), but my favorite piece was probably the website deadfred.com. it’s a website where people post old [...]

today, i went to a local after school club for kids in a low-income apartment complex. their teacher had approached me awhile back telling me about how they like to bring the kids to the library with their reading buddies. she came up with the great idea of introducing me to them through an “interview.” [...]

so, maybe this is a little obsessive of me, but i’ve noticed that whenever i’m sitting in a bathroom where the floor tiles have a pattern of some kind, my eyes rove over the tiles, figuring out the pattern, following the pattern or playing with the positive and negative spaces that the pattern leaves. yesterday, [...]

i discovered a new artist today. here is some of her stuff. she’s like the andy goldsworthy of consumeristic disposables. very interesting…

so i think i wrote about a few fun, happy things i did last friday, but i forgot to mention the nice lunch and photo shoot i had with one of my good friends. we enjoyed lunch together and then she agreed to model some of the new purses that pidoodle is putting out for [...]

a while back, i made a post about the “i want the truth, ruth” sketch and after watching the third electric company episode on the dvd, i think i have to change my assertion that the cartoon originally aired on sesame street. while i didn’t get to see that sketch, i saw a very similar [...]