Sherry | December 30, 2011
I think upcycled is what we’re calling it these days. Take something you no longer use and change it into something else. I thought I’d give it a whirl. I’d already cut one sleeve off of my no-longer-worn sweater before I thought to take a picture. Zip zap and I’d made my sweater into a [...]
Sherry | December 29, 2011
I made a quick trip to Arizona after Christmas to enjoy a few days with the Anderson family. Yes, I was just there a month ago but the added draw was the presence of son Ben, there from Michigan for some sunshine and family. Not necessarily in that order, of course. We heard quite a [...]
Sherry | December 25, 2011
Don’t even think about touching my Christmas poodle. She’s all mine.
Sherry | December 21, 2011
I had me some fun today. So of course you have to hear about it. It all started a couple of weeks ago when I started making some Christmas presents for my young friends Liv and Sam. I pilfered pictures of them from their mom’s Facebook albums and printed them on 11 x 17 paper. [...]
Sherry | December 20, 2011
It has become an annual event at Newberg Friends. I knew Wendy Goodwin when she was Wendy Clark and attended NFC with her family. She played violin in one of the regular music groups. Now she’s married and the mother of a young daughter and has made music her way of life. For the Christmas [...]
Sherry | December 18, 2011
Does doing something two years in a row make it a tradition? Tonight, for the second Christmas in a row, our reading group read through the script of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.” Here’s director LaNeal looking over the assigned parts with our hostess, Lisa, as we gather for our dinner. Yes, our reading group [...]
Sherry | December 13, 2011
That title probably got your attention. Sherry’s writing about cigars? A year ago I started receiving a subscription to Cigar Aficionado magazine. My only hint as to who might have sent me this “gift” was the name on the front. My sister is the only person left on earth who calls me Sharon (I’ve been [...]
Sherry | December 11, 2011
This hangs in our front entry hall as a fun reminder of loved ones in my past. Meet Aunt Helen, Grandma Nill, and Aunt Esther. Classy ladies, each. Now you know why a big smile covered my face this morning when I saw this on Pinterest. I might have to learn how to knit (again).
Sherry | December 9, 2011
We had scheduled a 5 o’clock dinner date at Friendsview with Mom Edna so I could help her with her annual Christmas letter. But she had to bump it up 15 minutes so she and Keith and Eilene (her brother and sister-in-law) could leave for the George Fox girl’s basketball game at 5:30. Not only [...]