Greetings from the Asylum

Welcome to PART 2 of my update post...to find Part 1 click HERE . I gave myself a vacation from this project for a few weeks (bad idea) because my husbands business, Harrison Law, PLLC , was BU...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2013/10/yo-yo-are-you-still-updating-part-2.html

You may recall that I am making a king-sized bedspread entirely out of yo-yos that are 2" in diameter.  You can read my first post about it HERE and my progress update from last summer HERE .�...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2013/10/udating-again-yo-yo-part-1.html

For my son's birthday he wanted an ARTIST PARTY.  The guests decorated the cake, did all kinds of artsy crafts, and we even played "Pin the Beret on the Artist."  Monet looks like he was w...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2013/06/rainbow-jell-o.html

I purchased some Mexican Vanilla Extract from a friend several years ago.  It was completely authentic and easily the BEST Vanilla Extract I have ever tasted.  I savored it.  I used it in eve...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2013/02/va-va-va-vanilla-extract.html

As you may know, I am redoing my daughter's bedroom.  Yesterday I showed how adding a little fabric dressed up THIS bookcase.  Today I'll show you how I fixed up the open-backed spaces in the...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2013/02/dress-up-your-drawers.html

For Christmas, my daughter received a paint bucket, roller cover, and a paint brush.  Her face was priceless.  She had gotten the shaft in the present department, and she knew it.  However, o...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2013/02/dress-up-your-bookcase.html

My daughter was invited to a birthday party yesterday.  It was a superhero party.  The invitation instructed attendees to dress as their favorite superhero.  There really was no contest.  My ...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2013/01/is-that-ironman.html

My American family tree is pretty tiny.  I am only a third-generation American on my mother's side.  My father's side goes back farther, but only about a hundred years or so.  I have some neat...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2012/11/i-am-thankful-fora-history-lesson.html

One of my husband's favorite holiday books as a child was CRANBERRY THANKSGIVING by Wende and Henry Devlin.  He's been searching for it online since our son was born because it has been out of ...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2012/11/cranberry-thanksgiving-bread.html

Halloween didn't turn out so well here at the GREETINGS FROM THE ASYLUM.  It involved some gastrointestinal distress followed by a garbage bag full of bathroom mats.  (In my defense, they were...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2012/11/let-us-all-give-thanks.html

We have been very busy here at the Asylum lately:  cooking, crafting, cleaning... You know, the usual crazy stuff.  At the same time I have been helping out a lot at my husband's wildly success...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2012/11/welcome-to-whole-new-asylum.html

My kids are great travelers.  My son has been great since he was a little guy.  My daughter has come around this last year.  :)  We are planning a longish vacation this summer that will inclu...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2012/07/need-sack-for-your-back.html

Waaaaaaaay back in 2010 I had this great idea.  That idea was to make a king-sized bedspread out of little tiny yo-yos.  The finished yo-yos are 2" in diameter.  You need A LOT of itty-bitty y...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2012/07/yo-yo-its-update.html

From all of the posts I write about eggs, you would think that I cook them all of the time.  After all, here at Greetings From the Asylum I have made Deviled Eggs , Egg Salad , Cyclops Eggs , Ba...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2012/07/eggs-again.html

I love a good bargain.  My husband teases that he is cheep, but I disagree.  He is frugal, and so am I.  Frugal is sooo much nicer-sounding than cheep. I want my kids to wear clean pajamas t...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2012/06/i-need-nap.html

My son is six.  That being said, he LOVES geography.  He knows more about how to read a map and world geography than some of the eleven-year-olds that I taught.  One of his favorite things to ...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2012/04/here-is-international-shout-out.html

My three-year-old daughter is all girl.  Her dress-up trunk is full of frilly, sparkly, lacy things (along with the fire helmet, a pirate sword, etc.).  Last year I got an email from Etsy title...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2012/04/lets-make-statement-ring.html

O-K!  One of the reasons that I started this blog was to finish all of the projects that I had laying around.  (Believe me when I tell you there are A LOT.)  This particular project I began wh...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2012/03/6-year-easter-eggs.html

I love, Love, LOVE a good egg salad salad sandwich!  I remember one outing I had with my husband to a little deli on Saturday.  I ordered the egg salad sandwich.  It looked soooo good, and I h...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2012/03/egg-cellent-sandwich.html

Way back last year I made a big batch of potato salad for a family party.  I decided to write up a little post on my alternative (thanks to Alton Brown ) method of cooking eggs.  I baked them ....

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2012/03/i-am-steamed.html

I have been on blogger hiatus for the last several months.  I have been crazy busy helping my husband as he has opened his own law practice.  (I am learning more about being an office manager t...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2012/03/oh-wow.html

Whew!  We have been so busy lately getting the business up and running. I have lost 15 pounds on the "Harrison Law Diet."  I realize that it is time to go pick up my son from Kindergarten and I...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2011/09/im-baaaaack-kinda.html

Hey!  I am so sorry that I have been keeping all of you from my crazy blogginess.  My life has gotten EXTRA crazy of late.  Here is the great news why... My husband is in the process of o...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2011/07/blogger-mia.html

Who doesn't love a baby in a onesie?  I'll tell you who, nobody!  That's right the whole world loves a baby in a onesie.  Why else would there be hundreds of them in baby stores across the glo...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2011/07/onesies-twosies-thresies-lotsies.html

I checked my comments a few mornings ago to find that Lesley from Life of the Cocktail Party had given me a Lovely Blog Award!  Wow!  Fun! To accept this award I am required to tell you ...

http://www.greetingsfromtheasylum.com/2011/07/lovely-blog-award-who-me.html