A New Earth - Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (reading from Thursday night).

It was interesting reading again last night.  We hear about stress causing sickness to people more and more.  Also about the importance of laughter, variety in our lives, putting closure to stressful situations, friendships with people who make us feel good and happy, moving ahead etc. that is so important for us.  The book explains [...]

Eastern Caribbean Vacation….Just About That Time

It is getting exciting we booked our Eastern Caribbean cruise a year ago and now the vacation starts this weekend.  Our cruise in on the Princess line and is for 10 days and we’ll be in Florida a couple of days both ways.  We are going with 4 other couples consisting of 3 brothers and [...]

Sunday Night Dinner Experimenting Along the Way

A couple of staples I always have on hand are   These dressings are low fat and I used them moderately in my salads.  But they come in handy for delicious and quick dinners as well.  I mostly bake chicken with them.  Tonight I was experimenting with 2 chicken breasts and     .  I coated my 2 [...]

Neat Things to Know

To take my mind away from my not very nice Sunday, see next post, I wanted to share some neat things with you:
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
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Sunday….I Should Have Just Stayed in Bed!

You know, it is so bad when you wake up at 7:00 a.m. on Sunday, and you feel good, and the sun is shining and you plan a productive day.  Then 4 hours later you come back home and wish you’d never gotten up.  THAT was my Sunday. 
After quietly enjoying my coffee, a special time for [...]

Personality Dimensions

 
It was a busy day today.   A good day. It included my facilitating a Personality Dimension’s workshop for first year nursing students.  This is a fun interactive workshop and a very enlightening tool that I facilitate to different program, first semester students at my college.   The students see it as a real eyeopener and its usually [...]

A New Earth - Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose

So, I am already reading  as I wrote a few days ago, a previous selection from Oprah’s Book Club, The Pillar’s of the Earth by Ken Follett.  I read mostly during my lunch hour at work.  I have just picked up her present Book Club selection by Eckhart Tolle, “A New Earth Awakening to Your Life’s [...]

Sidewinder Portable Bobbin Winder, What a Great Idea!

I don’t know about you but I get so annoyed when I run out of thread and have to stop in the middle of sewing to wind my bobbin.   You know you get almost to the end or you’re just whippingt along and it happens.  Its such a pain I think.  In my  newsletter from Evelyn’s Sewing [...]

Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day to you.  I hope its been a special day for you.  Maybe you received something special from loved ones, flowers, chocolate, a handmade card, a mushy kiss from your child..maybe you have baked some cupcakes or cookies to share today as well.
This week I have had a “Valentine’s Week” moreso than other years [...]

On Your Mark..Get Set…SEW!

I have had sewing projects ready to go both in my mind and sewing area.  Its a snowy day out there and perfect for a sewing day so I will share a couple of ideas.  I plan to make another chenille type baby quilt.  The front panel looks like this
and like this  and the [...]