Great week in Scottsdale hanging with my family & a long-time bestie who lives in Phoenix.  As usual I packed my great quality Canon camera with me to use it for one lone timer shot on Thanksgiving. 

TGIF!  Finished up the week with an awesome group at Zumba today... with even a couple of my friends driving about 30 minutes just to

The obnoxious Zumba attire level can be taken up a few notches at Halloween.  Last year I wore a 70's disco

Gotta love Pinterest.  I really try to keep my time on there at a minimum though.  It's yet another

While sitting by myself at Crazy Bowls recently, I had looked up from my phone to watch a mom walk in with her little

Cold weather is a sign that it's time to hide in my craftroom & get caught up on some scrapbooking.  Not that I'll ever be "caught up" on it. And that hiding only takes place after I get

More senselessness... "I make my own rules.  I do my own thang." Bryn LOVES when I say that.  Or should I say she rolls her eyes?

Happy Halloween!  It's going to be a cold one for Trick-or-Treating!  My how the weather has taken a dramatic change since the

   USA Volleyball Gateway Region select club tryouts happened over the weekend.  It can be a long stressful weekend for players & parents.  This was

I do what I have to do to get to my craftroom... even if it means walking out the deck door, down the steps, across the patio & into the basement door... since that's where my craftroom is located.  And don't think I won't climb through

And you know it's a LONNNNG stop light when you can "car dance" to almost an entire song.  It's called Target's parking lot on a Saturday afternoon,

As you may already know, I used to be part of a couple design teams... Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker (for the entire 3 years the company existed) & also 2 stints wit

If you like interior design blogs, check out The 26 Best Design Blogs recently posted on Domino. And Domino, by the way, was one of my favorite magazines EVER before they pulled the plug o

I've said many times before that our house has been a work in progress since we built it.  Many things, big & small, have changed in the last almost 15 years that we've lived here.

Saw this from a couple friends on Facebook.  Since I could relate to all of this, I thought I'd repost it.  Thank goodness we manage to keep each other laughing... both usually

Heard of Hurricane Odile?  I probably wouldn't have paid much attention to it, except my parents are in Cabo this week, where it hit & caused quite

Middle school can be yucky.  I can't say I really remember it being like that, but I'm sure it probably was at times.  Girls can be mean.  Girls don't usually throw

Heard a song at the pool in Arizona that I hadn't heard in a long time & have played it very loud, while singing very loud pretty often since