Hi there crafty friends! We have let our wee blog become a bit dusty over the past few months. But no dust has gathered on us! We have been busy as bees having adventures in far flung places, and right in our own living room. Always learning, learning, learning. 🙂 We have an amazing DIY deal to tell you about today, but first, I wanted to catch you up a little on what we have been doing – making lots of memories! Among which are… an amazing trip to China for Patti (!!) cooking, cooking, cooking Thanksgiving (in Texas and […] Read more »

Oooo, we have a little weekend surprise for you! Our friends Lisa and Karee at Build A Menu offered us the chance to give one of YOU a free six month subscription! If you have been wanting to try Build A Menu and haven’t yet, now is your chance! But hurry, because this giveaway only goes through tomorrow, Monday June 30. In case you haven’t yet heard me wax poetic about BAM, you can read this review I wrote on my other blog two years ago. Or you can read my guest post last month for Dawnita on how I […] Read more »

A word or two from Mrs. Brown…  It has been non-stop fun for the Browns since early April! First we had a series of wonderful visits from family, then Abbie performed in the world premier of a musical, and then we hopped on a plane to Hawaii! We had all sorts of grand plans for posting from Hawaii… Abbie learned how to make a lei, and we even hunted down lei needles (ever heard of those?) Alas, a lack of flowers (the trees were all picked clean for Lei Day!) followed by a computer disaster, changed those plans. We are […] Read more »