http://vanilla-spice.net/wordpress A girl serving, crafting, and sharing her views through blogging Sat, 09 May 2009 20:09:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Its been so long since I last posted! I miss you blog. School, work, life and camp have been just crazy and have not left me time to really blog. School is finishing up this week though so I am super excited to get back to doing things I love. ... http://vanilla-spice.net/wordpress/2009/05/economics-school-work-camp-etc/ I finished this quilt last month and never got around to writing a post about it. It was a gift for a friend's new baby girl. It is made out of flannel so it is really soft. All the colored flannel I bought at Walmart and the white flannel ... http://vanilla-spice.net/wordpress/2009/04/quilt-no-five/ http://vanilla-spice.net/wordpress/2009/04/better-men/ How can we be having a snow storm in April? Craziness! Yesterday I was outside under a beautiful blue sky without a jacket on. Today we have at least four inches of snow. My only consolation is at least it is actually a good storm. If it is going to ... http://vanilla-spice.net/wordpress/2009/04/april-rain-snow/ 1. Oh, Fransson! This blog has excellent quilting tutorials as well as quilt-a-longs and other great craft projects. I especially love the Paintbox Quilt pictured above. 2. ReFabulous has tons of great ideas for refashioning old items into fabulous new ones. I love this bag inspired by an outfit. Her kids ... http://vanilla-spice.net/wordpress/2009/04/mostly-blogs/ After work today I did a quick wardrobe emergency call. I wore this cardigan today to work and realized the reason why I do not wear it very often. This cardigan likes to gap between the buttons. So when I got home I carefully took off the buttons and ... http://vanilla-spice.net/wordpress/2009/03/wardrobe-911/ It was sometime last year that I started reading this book. Last summer maybe? I had gotten to the second to last chapter of the book and then just forgot about it. As it was sitting on my shelf I got the mistaken impression that I had already finished ... http://vanilla-spice.net/wordpress/2009/03/money-and-me/ Do not pick up this book to read if you have not read certain other books by Lawana Blackwell. I picked up this book from the library because I thought that it was a stand alone book. There are two sets of books - two series - that come ... http://vanilla-spice.net/wordpress/2009/03/the-jewel-of-greshem-green/ One of my goals for 2009 was to read 52 books in 52 weeks. Here's how I've done so far. 1. Priced to Move (Jan. 4-10) 2. Set Apart Femininity (Jan. 11-17) 3. Persuasion (Jan. 18-24) 4. Stepping Heavenward (Jan. 25-31) 5. Charade (Feb. 1-7) 6. Do Hard Things (Feb. 8-14) I am about 4 weeks behind. ... http://vanilla-spice.net/wordpress/2009/03/52-books-in-52-weeks/ I’ve read most of the books by Joshua Harris and have been challenged by them all. Do Hard Things is a book by his two younger twin brothers and is just as excellent. It doesn’t pull any punches as it challenges teens to rise above the culture’s low expectations ... http://vanilla-spice.net/wordpress/2009/03/do-hard-things/