Nancy's Arts & Crafts

Hello, September and hello virtual friends.   We have sold our house and bought another, all within ten days' time.  Good bye house an...

Tuesday was the Tea Party for four manor residents. Gene went to the grocery store for most of the party fare and bought cookie...

For a month Ollie has been away.  Then this morning an owl appeared in the house, spotted around 8:15 am.  I had checked at dawn, but the ow...

An internet Scrabble friend whom I have virtually known for about seven years but have never met personally, sent me this: An amazing...

Indulge me in the sharing of the goodness I found and re-found today in searching the web.  Here are web sites, readily accessed in the futu...

A Sonnet to a Scrabble Tournament It's off to Scrabble Thursday I will go To Tempe where the clime is very hot To try and put t...

Busy market in Barcelona, open Mondays through Saturdays.  Maureen and I were there Monday morning and we purchased marzipan candies for h...

Today I put up a new blog picture header from the view out my study window.  Fallish, autumnal colors and a pretty ash tree quickly losing i...

As an old dog playing Scrabble in tournament play since the mid '90's, I am very sorry to see that the new OWL (Official Word Listin...

Because I did not make a movie or slideshow from a Scrabble trip to New Zealand and Australia back in 2009, I decided to do so by trying out...

Now we have both the east and the west back yard fences painted with flowers, just in case the seedlings do not prove viable and flowers wo...

Barbara Van Alen started a local Scrabble Club in Phoenix, AZ, then progressed to become a director and then went on on to host her first to...

...because this time the tournament is in fairly close proximity, beautiful Durango, Colorado. In a few hours I'll be on the roa...

Phew!  My camera was returned today via USPS and all is well.  I had left it in Las Vegas, but kindly tournament director Mark mailed it bac...

What is happening in your world?  Mine, not so much.  Mainly the Mr. and I have been involved in taking care of our wounded pet.  Wounded ne...

Our Greenhouse on the Grand Lawn  seems to be working out fine (the "Grand" references the husband's blog  livingthegrandlife ...