truthfully tracelaine

     I know that you're not supposed to tell a lady's age, but somewhere along the way I passed my mother and she is now younger than I am.  Now, I understand that as women have more birthdays something happens, and they stop aging.  But since she had actually become younger than me, I thought it was time to celebrate with a pretty cool gift.  She had been eyeing a laundry sorter that I had re-purposed out of an old dresser, so this November, for her birthday, I made her her own laundry sorter.   You may notice the cute little bee on top, telling everyone to "Bee Happy".  This was purposeful.  My parents raise bees and sell the honey once a year.  They love their little free range bees.  ( We all love the honey!!)  So if it goes in the house, it needs a honey bee.  I think it turned out pretty cute.  It has also freed up alot of space in her laundry room and made life a little more organized.  Plus, she really needed an updated one. Just look at the laundry

Everywhere you go...  especially if you're going to be anywhere near my house, yard, or shop.         You see, around the middle of September, I really put on my thinking cap and start coming up with the coolest homemade gifts that I can think of.  It all began when my nieces and nephews were little.   We started a tradition at my Mom's house allowing all of the Aunts to fill the stockings with gifts for each little one in an effort to save grandma a little time and money.  When we started out, we were all buying little $1 and $2 dollar gifts because they were all so little that a pack of crayons and notebook were more than enough.  However, as the kids got older and our family grew, we had to find a way to continue buying for everyone and still picking out something unique that they would like.  In short they started testing our creativity, because the pocket book wasn't stretching any further.        As an artsy person, I began looking for creative ways to

Now, I know that this is a blog created by me, so that I would remember to take time to take care of myself.  So you may be wondering what does a chair have to do with anything.  Well, besides the fact that it is a VERY comfortable chair, it has also recently been recovered by my better-half. my husband Stephen.  He is so talented!  He is so particular about his work and he does wonderfully, beautiful work.   You see, once upon a time, I was a single mom.  And my four kids and I lived in this tiny house, with garage sale beds and left over furniture from the prior renters.  I was making less than $20,000 a year and we were "doing just fine".  So, when I found this chair it was a cream colored, beautifully overstuffed indulgence, of sheer comfort and it only cost $40.  As you can tell in the picture to the right, after a new marriage, and four additional children added into the mix, my chair was getting a lot of use and wasn't so cream colored anymore.... S