My mom bought me a pair of cute, dressy, black shoes a while ago from Nordstrom and they were too big for me. During our trip in California she told me to go there with the shoes and receipt to ask for a refund. Of course, I was skeptical that…

We went apple picking at Honey Pot Hill Orchards in Stow, Massachusetts today with our friends Sara, Jeff, Pam, and Pam’s little son Joey. Crowded. Warm weather. Lots of apples. And pears! Yay for the first day of fall! 🙂

The two owners of Spark Craft Studios put together and edited a book of card making ideas called “Love Notes“. I have 15 card designs in it! It’s slated to be released in January 2008 in time for the Valentine’s day holiday, so we’re going to plan a book release…

So we — errr, I — have been collecting wine corks for the past year and a half with the original intention to make one of these. Since then, I’ve kind of changed my mind and so now we’re probably going to use them as seat card holders at the…

Thanks to Jill and Drew, we had a rockin’ view of the Boston fireworks show from their roof top this year!

A sure sign that summer is here … painted toes and new flip-flops! 😀

Welcome to the family, lil’ dude! My third nephew, Tanner James Merz,was born today at 11:18 am in Pleasanton, California.He weighed 6 lbs. 2 oz. (tiny!) and measured 19.5 inches long. Congrats Linda and Grant!

Thanks to everyone that stopped by my booth at this year’s Somerville Open Studios (SOS) event. I know I didn’t do any advertising (read: harrassment – LOL) about it this year, but I had a pretty good turn out nonetheless. It was great talking with people that made the trek…

With the recent snow and less than 30 degree mornings lately, you really wouldn’t believe that it’s April here in New England, let alone that Spring is here. Surely, one sign that Spring has sprung: Easter. We’re heading over to my fiancee’s aunt’s house tomorrow morning and this year I…

Although we’re a couple of days early of April, I thought I’d post a little something about it now since myy nephew, Cade, has autism. If you’d like to help raise money for autism research, please consider making a donation by this Saturday, March 31st to Autism Speaks via Ali…