Nancy's Arts & Crafts

Something new for fall decoration, cheap, colorful and making the living room smile with cheeriness: colorful plastic acorns.  Now really, d...

Eighteen months ago, I became a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for children and wrote a post about it HERE . This past week I too...

From a blog called Calvin's Hats , the purpose of creating tiny baby preemie hats is summarized here: Calvin's Hats is offering to...

Back in November, I became a CASA and posted here about it. Court Appointed Special Advocates of Mesa County (CASA-MC), recruits, screen...

Help support Japan by contributing a picture of a rainbow and a cash donation to The Rainbow Project : A rainbow is pure magic. Through The...

A new group is starting up tonight at our local hospice ( Hospice & Palliative Care of Western Colorado ) where I volunteer.  The group ...

My new little HP netbook needed some padding to protect it when it is carried.  So an internet search on how to make a laptop cover came up ...

Long time friend Sharon in Dallas encouraged me to pursue CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) volunteerism this summer when we visited ...

Taking color highlighting to heart, and working more on the Red Claret Day Lily painting taken from this snapshot I took a year ago at an Au...

Instead of starting a new painting project at the beginning of the year, I decided to dust off some previous oil paintings and make improvem...

Today is a pretty full day of volunteering for me, so craft projects are on hold. This picture from the 2009 Engagement Calendar (Anne Taint...

In yesterday's posting about making paper beads with instructions given by Instructables , I wrote about how to use magazines for cut-o...

In May of 2008, Libby Sweetpea was discussed in her training as a therapy dog at a local nursing facility . And again, in June, Libby was fe...

Over the past week, the organizations with which I volunteer sponsored some creative and enjoyable events. On Saturday and Sunday, Western C...

All of us must face grief in our lives. Coping with grief is a topic which I have been researching lately because it has hit so close to hom...

The last three days of my life were spent in twenty-six hours of volunteer orientation for Hospice . They were intense hours investigating ...

Cups , sponsored by Hospice and Palliative Care of Western Colorado, operates a lovely coffee house at the Old Miller Homestead on North 12...