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Playing House

Empty Cup Solutions

February 23, 2011 On My Acre

For every additional person in a household, over the count of two, there is an exponential increase in the number of cups to wash unless strategies are applied.  I have in the past purchased inexpensive plastic cups and let the kids decorate them with permanent marker.  Simply writing names or having personal cups was not [...]

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Master Grocery List

January 28, 2011 Cooking and Food

List making serves the obvious purpose of aiding my memory at a particular moment, but, more than that, I believe it organizes and frees my mind.  When I write down what I need to attend to, some process begins of it’s own accord that connects wires and produces ideas that I hadn’t thought of before.  [...]

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Selling Mud Pies

October 7, 2010 Life Around Town

I have a custom made butter dish.  It sits on my counter, a beautiful and practical piece of pottery that I ordered while browsing Art & Roses, a local event at Julia Davis Park in Boise, Idaho, held the first Sunday of June.  The exhibition had too many booths of wall art for my attention [...]

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