This is a public service announcement reminding all readers that this blog is written for both MEN and WOMEN.
Enriching Everyday Life is NOT a blog devoted solely to women’s issues, women’s place in the home, or women as the primary home keeper.
All of God’s people, created in His image, have the in-born desire to create. [...]
Archive for October, 2007
31 Oct
Commercial Break
31 Oct
The Incredible, Readable Blog
Laurie, blogging in Japan at Blue Forest Soapbox, left me a comment!
I came across your blog “accidentally” when someone looking up Edith Schaffer linked us both up on the same page. We seem to share a lot of interests even though you are a young mother in Kentucky and i am an older mother in [...]
15 Oct
Outside Art
Outside art involves large 50 lb bags of various bird seed, a myriad of square, greasy things called “suet”, containters to hold the lot, and a bird bath that grows as much slime as it waters birds. It requires constant requires constant attendance and a vigilant eye ~ forget to fill them in the winter [...]
13 Oct
Confessions of a Math Girl
My youngest daughter is keeping a nature journal for school and through her effort I caught the bug. No, I will never be Grandma Moses, but neither am I the hopeless artist my family thought I was. My journal has some nice drawings. The kind that I don’t care if anyone else sees because their [...]
13 Oct
Altered Books
Want to experiment with color? Collage? Texture? Text? Be challenged & inspired? Take a moment and check out Hidden Art and Salt.
Hidden Art is one of my favorite blogs to read. (No, I have no malice in my heart, she picked the name first!) She doesn’t do the kinds of things that I do to [...]
11 Oct
Food ~ My First Recognized Hidden Art
Confession. Growing up I thought I was a 100% left-brained, math whiz, without a stitch of anything artistic in my bones. I had help thinking that. My family told me so. Frequently. Yet, all these artistic ideas were whirling around in my brain. I didn’t know how to get them out and, even worse, I [...]
9 Oct
Photography
Mrs. Schaeffer does not have a chapter about photography in her book. I have no idea why and I can’t for sure say whether she would consider photography an art. I, however, DO consider it an art, albeit one that I haven’t really tried.
Barb (Harmony Art Mom) recently started a new blog: [...]
9 Oct
Fresh Bread
I come from a long line of breadbakers. Even after my immigrant ancestors had settled down to modern life in the suburbs, my grandmother and then my mother continued to bake their own bread. My mother, now on a potassium-free diet, still bakes every other week.
My mother, however, was determined to mold her girls into [...]
8 Oct
Color for Everyday Life
This container replaced my wave petunias that were eaten by the drought. There is also another similar container on the other side of the porch.
Honestly, this past year has been exceptionally rough for our family. Fighting depression became an almost daily battle and it felt like I was losing the war. I wasn’t able to [...]
7 Oct
Bread Baking
Click on this link first and then use the “back page” button to read the rest. (I didn’t want to copy the picture into my post because I’m trying to avoid copyright infringement.)
Have you ever walked into a home and smelled the aroma of fresh-baked bread wafting from the oven? Boy, I have, [...]
