New Phase – Making Offers!
New Phase - Making Offers! #2023 #Family #Encourage #PropertyHunting #Land #PuttingOffersIn #ExcitedForMovingForward #PrayingForFavorAndWisdom #FutureTartFarm #OpenRuralLand #GenerationalHome [...]
Floor Blocks and Imagination
#2023 #Family #Pictures #Encourage #Imagination #FloorBlocks #HouseBlocks #BuildingHousesOutOfFoamFloorMatSquares #ProblemSolving #Boys #WatchWithWonder #Children #TheFascinatingImaginationOfAChild [...]
Building Buddies
December 28, 2020 Building Buddies When we think of toddler, stuffing every unknown object into their mouth is standard, right? I had two where the answer was shockingly “NO!” They both loved all things small – squinkies, legos, and polly pockets. The thing I like about small items is that [...]
Crafting Cages
June 5, 2018 Crafting Cages Last month we built two big mobile cages for our livestock One is for the “teenager” chickens (those between just feathered and adult, about 6 weeks to 24 weeks). Rebeccah bought the clearance Buff Orpington straight run (mixed males and females) from Tractor Supply at [...]
Creating Characters: Web of Deception
February 11, 2018 Creating Characters: Web of Deception The first of my epic fantasy novels to be published, Web of Deception, has some of my favorite characters. It took over seven years of development and several revisions to complete this work. I’m a bit of a perfectionist, so I never [...]
Creating Characters: Ann, Mary, and Susan
The secret to staying young is by having someone base a character on you! [...]
Creating Characters : Brantley Station Saga
February 8, 2018 Creating Characters: Brantley Station Saga One of the last set of characters I created were for a youth adventure series called “Brantley Station Saga.” This entire set was built off of one comment by my Dad. He was helping develop a website when he observed, “all of [...]
Character Creation: The Funny Sisters
February 7, 2018 Creating Characters: The Funny Sisters One thing I love about reading is meeting amazing characters! I’ll be feeling the same betrayal and hopelessness that twists into revenge alongside David Balfour as he watches his uncle get smaller as his prison of a ship carries him into unknown [...]
Creating Darren
July 6, 2017 Creating Darren One of the neatest parts about writing (for me, anyway) is creating people. Maybe I take it too far, but I like to have elaborate backstories for everyone. (For example: a character with a small part in “Web of Deception” has fifteen pages of notes [...]