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Note: As of 2017, The New Homemaker is an archive. The articles on the site are all original to TNH. For more musings from Lynn, the person behind this site, go here.


Lately I've found myself relentlessly playing Tetris on the computer. It's a game of manipulating a falling geometric shape into a row of other shapes with the goal of making a solid line of blocks. When the line of blocks is complete, they disappear and the player earns points for every solid row.

The ivy pot has "Tell me why the ivy twines" written in Sharpie pen, with freehand leaves; the sage pot was rubber-stamped and then touched up; and the little pot was the result of Josie slopping on paint and Mommy brushing it out for her--turned out rather Monet-like!
A project for the whole family
New Oregon law is chasing them away--how about in your state?