you might like – by Gay Daly.

I took all the materials I’ve been collecting for-ev-er outside yesterday to the picnic/project table. I’ve been looking at this one picture of a stone cottage on a Caribbean Island and feeling so incredibly drawn to it! Yesterdays goal was to get one page of the LifeBuilder book done; the “home” page. I sorted through the thick stack of home pictures I’ve amassed, choosing the ones that I felt most enthusiastic about. I laid them out in various ways, adding extra fold-out parts and no matter what the arrangement I’d end up cutting out, overlaying or otherwise reducing the overall effect. So? The point is to have an image that stimulates your heart and imagination. So I hunted around, found a big piece of poster board 16” x 22” which worked great! After I got all the pictures on I put it in the hallway so I see it several times every day! I am very gratified I let my dream expand and grow instead of chipping away at it until it fit into some small, preconceived thing.

in July! There was a heavy rain one night when I had 2 loads of clothes out to dry and cloudy and drizzly the next morning. I wash at least 3 times per week so curious if the electric bill will reflect anything? I got a nice steel compost bucket for the countertop. I was re-using empty sour-cream, yogurt containers etc. which was messy and stinky even if I emptied them into the outside compost every couple of days. The steel container has two charcoal filters in the lid so no smell whatsoever! We’ve always had cloth grocery bags but this last month we’ve been extra careful about having them on-hand in the car.