Author: Beth
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Persimmon Tree Tea’s Assam Gold
Yum.Yum, yum, yum. I’m still working my way through samples from Persimmon Tree, but until now, I’d only found two that I felt were must-haves for my tea shelf. I knew from the first taste that Assam Gold would be the third. Unlike most of the black teas I got… Read the rest…
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Forward momentum
Sunday night, I posted this fantastic cell phone shot of my laptop’s screen on Facebook: And if you couldn’t tell just by looking at it, it’s a pretty big thing. It means I just finished the first draft of the second book in my epic fantasy series. When I set… Read the rest…
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Older and wiser
So yesterday was my birthday.I normally write stuff to post ahead of time, but this time, I didn’t. I thought I’d have some kind of deep, introspective musing to write about after the celebration. But it didn’t happen. And there wasn’t that much celebration, either. I had a wonderful afternoon… Read the rest…
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Sewing a dress shirt for Iplehouse EID, part two
If you missed the first part of this tutorial, you can find it over here. As promised, I took another picture of the finished sleeve lap to show how it is constructed. Though mine differs from the pattern, the construction is the same. Now that that’s out of the way,… Read the rest…
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Sewing a dress shirt for Iplehouse EID, part one (Pattern included)
Before we even begin, I have to apologize for 3 things. 1. This was the first pattern I ever made. I had no idea what I was doing, I just really wanted one of my dolls to have a dress shirt. It isn’t perfect and could probably stand to be… Read the rest…
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Goals for the New Year
I’m not a big fan of resolutions, but I like goals. Goals are really compatible with lists, and I think we’ve been over how much I like lists before, right?There’s a lot of reasons not to like resolutions, but since statistics indicate making something a resolution makes it less likely… Read the rest…
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Hard work
“But you don’t work.”It’s a common insinuation that stay-at-home mothers have to fight–the idea that because they’re home all day, they don’t work. Every day, I see countless posts on social media sites sharing articles written by exhausted and exasperated mothers explaining just how hard they work. I get it,… Read the rest…
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