About two and a half years ago I had an idea to start doing a limited run of mugs. Mugs I wouldn’t make all the time, as regular items, but more like if I had an itch of an idea and I wanted to scratch it. I’d make a small …
After a quick family breakfast, it was off to Baltimore. Why Baltimore? Well, first off, it’s my hometown. I have ties… including much family in a cemetery, and y’all know by know this trip is all about the dead folks. Also, there’s Poe’s gravesite, which I have been to and …
This is one of those posts I’m writing because I work alone and don’t have anyone really to bounce ideas off of (I mean, there’s cats, tortoises, and a Shop Elf, but… you know what I mean). It’s the time of year when I order soap base, and this time …
Hooooo boy. I’ve written this post like six times today, y’all. Even I want to tell myself to shut up already, haha, even though this is kind of a really real subject. Let me see if I can delete the chaff and just leave you with what I was really …
Y’all. THE ENTIRE REASON FOR THIS AMAZEBALLS ROAD TRIP. Ten or eleven years ago, Sharon and I went to the Florida Fiber-In for the first time. Everyone was really friendly, but we didn’t really feel there were too many people our age there. That is, until we saw Beth. Sharon …
So, one of the things I did when researching our road trip, was look up everywhere we were going to be in Roadside America to see what sort of fantastic bits of Americana we could see. Who knew that the tiny town of Kingwood, West Virginia, where Sharon was born …
Today would have been my dad’s 77th birthday. He died two weeks after his 60th. It used to be, growing up, Bill’s birthday, then a week later my dad’s birthday, then a week later, Christmas, then a week later, New Year’s. Constant celebration. Now it’s always just me trying to …
WHEN LAST WE LEFT OUR INTREPID HEROINES…. I know, I know, who can remember back that far, right?! Talk about a long anticipation for a story finish. So, just to recap… Stage One. We stopped off at Peach World (it’s been two years, yes, I did finish that peach moonshine …
