This post contains affiliate links. More information here. Before I learned about bullet journaling, I grabbed a notebook willy-nilly, whichever one was handy, to jot down my grocery list, hash out measurements for a project, brainstorm ideas for something, take notes from a meeting, or whatever else I needed to write down. Over the years, I realized that I actually liked flipping through an old notebook and finding something ... Read the Post...
8 Reasons I really love my Kindle
This post contains affiliate links. More information here. I love, love, love paper books. Don’t get me wrong here. I have hundreds of them on 11 or so bookcases scattered about my house. I especially love old ones and ones with pretty covers. I have a soft spot for library discards and other well-used tomes, about which my mind romanticizes all the previous readers. But I have so many reasons to love using Kindle as well. Should you ... Read the Post...
Why you shouldn’t throw away those negatives
This post contains affiliate links. More information here. Recently, I visited my parents in Ohio and began the task of digitizing my mom's heaps o' photos. A couple of my sisters helped me sort them by decade and then I started in scanning the earliest ones first. 1495 images later, I think I'm mid-way through the seventies. My mom saved all her negatives. She had a darkroom as a hobby when she lived in Germany, and I guess she realized ... Read the Post...
10 Little Things That Make Me Happy
This post contains affiliate links. More information here. Do you ever consciously think about the things that make you happy? Ever since I was small, I've paid attention to those little (and big things) that spark joy in my everyday life. Here are some of those things that make me happy: 1. Books This will come as no surprise, but I love books. Old books, new books, pretty books, exciting books, books from childhood, books I should ... Read the Post...
