A Mindful Life

I made this tea cozy from Cascade 220 on size 5 needles. It fits a two cup teapot. Now I need to pop it in the mail to my sister-in-law, who has patiently waited for it since June! I used the Lily tea cozy pattern I found at Michaels. I varied the stitch slightly.

These are some of the envelopes I painted at the three LEND A HAND Painting Envelopes for Sunday Friends projects. Sunday Friends will use the envelopes in their direct mail campaign in November. The volunteers who attended the project expressed appreciation and asked if we could put this on the calendar on a monthly basis. [...]

Tomorrow morning I’ll be up really early (before 6 a.m.). I’ll be leading a painting project of about 40 people painting 3500 square feet of space for an agency that handles domestic violence issues. At 2:30 the project will end, and then I’ll help a colleague load a van full of supplies to return to [...]

Another month, another Snuggle. Yay!

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Hands On Bay Area Day 2006

Never leave home unsure of your next good blaze.
–Verlyn Klinkenborg

If you live in the Bay Area and want something to do this weekend, you can easily sign up to volunteer with Hands On Bay Area Day on Saturday. It’s a fun event. We have 1800 people registered and room for 200 more.
If you can’t attend a project, please sponsor me and make a [...]

Is death so fearsome that it must be undone? Is this life so poor a thing? Is not eternity somewhat too long?
–Verlyn Klinkenborg

If you love to read, and if you love not having to spend money to read books, then visit WorldCat Beta. It’s the world’s largest library network. If you search for a book, it will tell you what libraries near you have it. This saves the effort of having to look in each library’s online [...]