happy stuff.

i found another artist who does amazing altered books. check out the whole page of pictures. the one shown here is by far the simplest. i am particularly fond of the alice in wonderland one.

this morning, my cat was sitting on the floor, purring very loudly and mr. happy stuff referred to her as a “sub-woofer.”

for everyone who has been anxiously awaiting a photo from my workshop, click here! sorry there’s not more, but this is my favorite. this is a photo of one of three (or four?) displays i did in the hallway of the place where the workshop took place. it was lots of fun to put together [...]

i wish i had time to tell you about our thanksgiving break–we had a great time visiting family, but so much happened and i’m feeling pressed for time today, so here are some highlights: –a young cousin (from mr. h-s’ side of the family) gave me a drawing of their cat “pebbles” that she had [...]

today, i was running errands in a less familiar side of town and i decided to take (what i hoped) was a shortcut to get from one place to the next. i drove along just fine until i came to a fork in the road that allowed me to choose between “north” (hwy blah) and [...]

let’s see if i can catch up with the last few days. i’ll start off with the title–last tuesday, i needed to do an errand downtown and when i found a parking space on the street, i discovered that it still had 16 minutes left on it–more than what i needed! hooray (small, tiny happy)! [...]

last night in storytime, i pointed to a picture of a pig in the book i was reading and i asked the kids, “and what does this say?” one little boy replied without hesitation, “wee, wee, wee!”

yesterday, i listened to some new children’s music cd’s that i bought for work. i was completely delighted by elizabeth mitchell’s new cd, “you are my little bird.” it’s the sort of album my mother would have purchased if it had been around when we were kids. very gentle, some traditional folk songs, some i’d [...]

sudden snow shower today. very wet, heavy snow. but the weirdest part was the thunder and lightning. rather surreal.

the other morning as i was getting dressed, i pulled on my boots, stood up and realized that something didn’t feel right. i had put my boots on the wrong feet! silly me. so i sat down, pulled them off and switched feet. nope, that was even worse! what the heck? oh, look. i have [...]