• Cards & Crops

    My Top Crafty Card Picks of 2015

    Today I’m sharing a throwback post to my days of creating cards for Operation Write Home. It became a yearly tradition to pick your favorite cards of the year and post them to an OWH new year’s blog hop; but alas, OWH has closed its doors and I’m left to my own devices. So here’s my personal walk down this year’s card crafting lane. I hope you enjoy my personal picks (in no certain order).   Firefly Dreams I really like the simplicity of this card and how it became a farewell to summer for me. The paper and the lightning bugs just capture the season.   Washi, Pleats and Butterfly…

  • This & That

    Small Talk’s Top Posts of 2015

    As the year rapidly comes to an end, it’s always fun to see where the last year took us and how my blogging life was received. After the complete meltdown of Small Talk Mama the fall before, I was forced to make some decisions about the future of my little space of bloggy bliss; and after much deliberation, a false-start and returning to my first love, Small Talk Mama was reborn (slowly) and is still in the repairing process. I continually discover old posts that simply vanished forever, and I’m just so sure those were some of my best stuff. Okay, enough wound licking. . . let’s get on to my best posts…

  • Life as I Know It

    My 2015 Resolutions: A Step in the Right Direction

    So it’s the season of resolutions, and I began these days of goal setting by focusing on three areas of life improvement. . . which quickly became five, no eight, no ten and so on. So I started thinking about how a girl who clearly doesn’t have it together can possible narrow it down to so few areas of change. I mean there is always do these things less, do these things more, finish this, be a better that and lose weight. Yes, the weight thing is always a given. For example, the wonderful photo collage hanging in my living room was a great, yet slightly expensive, project of mine…