by Lisa | Feb 10, 2023 | Being Mom, Dance, Family, Perspectives
It’s been 4 years since I wrestled with the decision to put my son in dance and I’m so glad I was open to letting him try. He is still beaming and just as excited as he was the first day of dance class in 2019. Since then we’ve endured the covid...
by Lisa | Jul 27, 2020 | Creativity, Family, Imagination
My husband and I are big LEGO fanatics. As kids we grew up playing for HOURS quietly building and creating. I grew up and moved away to college and my collection was given away…. my whole city. Then one day, shortly after my husband and I met, we were...
by Lisa | Feb 18, 2020 | Inspiration, Poetry
I love living in Florida! I grew up in Cincinnati where it’s cold for what I think is too many months, where scraping the ice off the car was one of my least favorite things. 28 years ago, as soon as I graduated high school and was able to leave, I moved all the...
by Lisa | May 6, 2019 | Crafts, Mom Hacks
I LOVE ribbon! It’s so much fun for many things from gift wrapping to hair bows, bow ties, scrapbook embellishment and many other crafts.Even the scraps are useful for small projects.Recently I’ve been decluttering, organizing and simplifying. I found...
by Lisa | Jun 17, 2017 | Crafts, Inspiration
I really love creating handmade crafts. It’s a nice compliment to what I do on the computer for Blu Dove Designs. As we were picking up a few things around the house and helping my mom pack, I ran across a ball of yarn from a project my mom had worked on this...
by Lisa | Dec 6, 2016 | Recipes
I needed to cook dinner and decided it was going to be chicken for this evening’s meal. It was frozen so I pulled it out to thaw. About 3 or 4 in the afternoon it was still thawing and I thought “there’s no way I will have time to thaw it and then...