DIY Fun

If you would like to add a personal touch to any party, have fun creating easy-to-make photo flowers. They are especially nice if they feature old photographs of the honoree. Not only do they look great, but guests love looking at them and teasing the guest of honor. Always a good ice breaker! Click here for easy instructions.

Every year at this time, we love to pull out the Ukranian eggs that we have been making since the girls were little. (Well, I was actually told by a Ukranian egg expert once, that our eggs can’t officially be called Ukranian eggs since we don’t officially use the Ukranian egg patterns and symbols. Since we take a more “creative”

Here they are. Three California eggs… I really wanted to get my hands on a goose egg or two this year, but I settled on some big organic brown ones. The brown ones can be really nice, offsetting the saturation of the dyes and adding a soft country feel to the eggs.

Auction item: A Day At Cathy Heck Studio. Winner: Alessandra, a talented freshman in high school who is already soaring with her artistic endeavors. We started the day with a portfolio review and then we got to work. We scanned several of Alessandra’s pieces so that she would be able to use her own artwork while taking her first Photoshop

So…when the three of us were in grade school and prolifically producing schoolwork, my mom was always diligent about sorting and binding a “best of” for each academic year. It’s so satisfying to be able to go back and quickly get a glimpse of yourself at 8, 12 and 16 years old. However, while the uniform pages of our academic