he's not ashamed to admit that Jersey Shore is one of his favorite shows...so when we heard DJ Pauly D was going to be in Baltimore at P...

so I've been missing in action, or MIA as they say, for quite some time...honestly, the last thing I truly remember is the couple of day...

 yup, you guessed it...another theme!  this time was a going away party...for our friends the Conkling's before they head north to live...

my aunt and uncle have been married for 25 years!  so we thought that we'd surprise them with a party in their honor, disguised as a typ...

one of our favorite things to do in the summer, fall, well winter and spring too, is go to wine festivals :)  here are a few highlights from...

this one's a 'two-fer'... the last days of our afterschool program at Wolfe Street...really going to miss these kids!  I d...

since tomorrow we are going to the Vintage Virginia Wine Festival... being outside all day in the sun requires a cute dress to wear...like...

I know I had promised (upon multiple occasions) that I would share with you the in progress works of my Fiction Project submission...and I f...

how is it already June!?  I can't believe summer is just around the corner...quite honestly, it's felt like the dead of summer here ...

wow, it has been such a long time since I've been good to my blog...but I'm hoping now that school is out- well after school at leas...

my friends in Baltimore love a good theme party, and this year Erin and Tracy's birthday party was a witch and wizard theme...so we Harr...

featured in a lovely treasury consisting of all artists who will be at the DC Craft Mafia's 1st Annual Spring Thing on May 21st!

this year for Easter we made plans to celebrate with Bonnie & Andy at their house...the first time we spent the holidays with friends in...

this year, I got to take spring break for the first time in years!  I'm liking this working in schools already!  So I decided to hop in ...

it's not easy being a Yankees fan in Baltimore...but I still get to see my boys in pinstripes every once and a while :)

One of my good friends from Virginia Tech, Alison, asked me to design some jewelry for her bridesmaids, and as always I was honored to be a ...

all that studying has paid off...the Praxis is just another step conquered on the way to becoming a teacher!  so the study guides are going ...

 Don's Weather Rock

it's my first show of the season!!! come on out to Fenton Street Market's Silver Spring Bling this Saturday from 9am-2pm for a jew...

  last weekend we ventured up to Vermont, for our annual family ski trip...and this year, I skied!  for real!  I went down a legitimate tra...