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Chris and I have been working on a couple of decorating projects and I thought it would be fun to share them here. Chris found this coffee table at a thrift store a couple of years ago. It’s actually a really nice table, but was somewhat boring in color. So we painted it this sunny, [...]

Yay! I just remembered that I LOVE to bake, and that one of my goals is to get much better at making delightful, buttery treats. Saturday afternoon, I gave this recipe a try. And I’m so glad that I did! Yum and….just, yum! Because I love lemon, I doubled the amount of lemon juice. The [...]

I made this cartoon for Chris’ birthday in February.

Chris and I had a little homework this week for our TEFL course. Our assignment was to make a poster to explain an idiom, and another poster to explain a phrasal verb (you know, one verb + one preposition = a phrasal verb; e.g. “give up”). We were both off work today, and so spent the [...]

Follow me on twitter:  @orangegoround ALSO, lots of adventures, new photos, and a fab coffee table make-over tutorial are all soon to come!

I am going to teach ESL at Casa Marianella!!  And yes, this warrants two exclamation points because I am really excited about this!  Casa Marianella is a non-profit organization that provides shelter and a variety of social services to immigrants and refugees.  Many of the residents of Casa speak very limited English, and this can [...]

An illustration for “Meander” : the orange cat nibbling bits of carrot beside the recycling bin.

Nena had been knitting the same scarf for three years.  Four, if you must count the year she began and unraveled it three times before shoving it unceremoniously behind the couch with her toe (the second toe that is annoyingly longer than her big toe.  THIS is the toe, along with the wayward small toe, [...]

I have recently begun doodling a story, which for now I will call “Meander”.  I will share bits of it, in a very out-of-order fashion, here. Nena did not seem to be overly fond of Walter, a portly and polished potato of a man.  She expressed her disdain for him through tightened, scribbled lips.  She [...]

I am drawing illustrations to go along with the story “Meander” that I have been posting here.  This cartoon is Nena, making coffee in her green stripe kitchen.