Saturday, September 12, 2009

Are you fun enough...

To have these in your living room? I think these polka dot pillows epitomize the kind of fun person I like to think I am, but in reality they don't really fit my home decor (or my personality). That said, I'm in love with this fabric! So I can live vicariously through whoever ends up putting them in their living room...or bedroom, or playroom, or family room...




Friday, September 11, 2009

Sobering

Some not-so-light thoughts from Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis. I found all this rather convicting when evaluating my days interacting with my children:

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

Again, Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live forever. Perhaps my bad temper or my jealousy are gradually getting worse-- so gradually that the increase in seventy years will not be very noticeable. But it might be absolute hell in a million years: in fact, if Christianity is true, Hell is the precisely correct technical term for what it would be.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

New

In the shop:

A few fabrics and soon, some cute aprons at a very affordable price. Think Christmas presents (it's not too early)...



Remember this material?


A new friend from Etsy snatched it up and made this adorable back sack...check it out. It's so gratifying to see the finished product!