Handmade card using stenciling and reverse stenciling technique

Juan’s 2010 bday card, inside spread Originally uploaded by gardenwife This last weekend, I tried something different. I stamped an image, cut it out, and used both the cut out image and the remaining cut-out left in the cardstock as stencils on a card. I like the masking technique and am happy with how this [...]

History repeats itself

I ran across this online somewhere and had to chuckle. 2000 B.C. – Here, eat this root. 1000 A.D. – That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer. 1850 A.D. – That prayer is superstition. Here, drink this potion. 1940 A.D. – That potion is snake oil. Here, swallow this pill. 1985 A.D. – That [...]

You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it

I read this quote this morning in the signature of a forwarded e-mail. I think it’s a keeper: “You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the [...]

Future teachers

My friend Chuck, a school teacher whose class this year has some behaviorally challenged kids, said this: I can usually tell who will be your doctors and lawyers. I have none of them, but I do have quite a few future school teachers. {-: He’s got a good sense of humor!