Author: rebekah

One more thing for your to-do list!

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All right ladies. I’m back. It’s only been a second since I splashed up my last post, and yet here I am – back with you again. This time I’ve taken laptop in hand to deliver some grim news. In a mere week, your daughters will be hanging upside down from the monkey bars in their cute new skirts.

I know you’re still stressing out about which child needs the box of 12 crayons and which one was supposed to have both the box of 8 AND the box of 24. You’re putting it off and trying to not think about the lines at Wal-Mart. But you know perfectly well in the back of your mind that if you don’t muscle your way on out there, then you’ll arrive too late and the number 2 pencil section will be completely ravaged. And then there’s the back pack question. And the school shoes. And the back-to-school haircut.

I know you’re preoccupied with all these things – but the fact remains. Your daughter will be looking just adorable and preppy, and she’ll have her monogrammed backpack and her little hairbow and her number 2 pencils, and you’ll breath a huge sigh of relief. But then she’ll sit down on the floor by the door to tie her shoes. That’s the moment to look out for. That’s the moment you’ll wish that you had ordered a Skirty.

So go for the gold, be organized, and order one now! And feel a little thrill of gratitude that you didn’t have to stand in line at Wal-Mart to get it! In fact, you can find one right here.

Viva la Gem State

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Howdy-do!

So – here I am, blogging away like there’s no tomorrow after a hiatus of what seems like at least 6 months. Somewhere along the line I fell off the blogging truck (although my blogging truck was never going very fast in the first place!) Last you heard from me I was probably in Oxford . . . and no doubt having some crisis or other and fussing about English groceries. But now I’m back in good old Idaho for the whole summer, and have nothing to complain about in the grocery department. We’re wallowing in the American sized packages, and the fact that we don’t have to ration the peanut butter.

But although we are in the land of limitless peanut butter, as it turns out, Idaho has somewhat less in the way of historical interest than England has. As I’m sure you all know, you can drive for days and never once hit a spot where anything of historical import has ever happened. The “Historic Site Ahead” signs on the highway keep you motivated for miles as they hint of great things to come – but when you pull off the road into the mini parking lot to see what all the fuss is about, it inevitably turns out to be a billboard that explains in painful detail the fact that Lewis and Clark caught fish for dinner in this very creek and wrote that shocking fact down in their diary. (I’m not making that up. We’ve been snookered by that one more than once.) But somehow, even though you KNOW that nothing interesting has EVER happened along Highway 95, Read More

Whoops!

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important.JPGAlright ladies. As you may or may not remember, I recently had to switch the domain name on my website. Thinking that everything was back up and running, I urged you to charge ahead and order yourselves some Skirties. However, it has just come to my attention that there was a minor glitch in switching over to the new site, and some of your orders may not have registered on my end. So if you have ordered, and not received that order . . . please email me right away and we’ll make sure that your Skirty finds it’s way to you!

Ta-da!

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Well lookie here!

After a mere, what? 6 weeeks? I now have a website up again!

Now – all of you who have been anxiously checking the internet every day, holding your breath and going on hunger strikes until you can buy a Skirty . . . this is your lucky moment!

Here’s the tricky bit though. The Skirty comes to you now with a new web address. (I finally gave up the battle with the cyberspace bureaucrats who were holding my website hostage and just got another one. That’ll learn ’em.)

So . . . NOW when you want to order a Skirty, you need to go to www.amoretti-designs.com

Alright then. No more excuses. Sally forth and go get yourselves some Skirties!

I kid you not.

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Yes. It came out of the carton that way.

Now, I find this disturbing. And I don’t want to have a bunch of people writing in to tell me that they keep chickens and I ought to toughen up and not stress out about a little feather. I completely reserve to myself the right to stress out about a little feather. I don’t keep chickens, and let’s be honest, the reason I don’t is because I don’t want to. I have done it in the past, and I see no percentage in it.

I enjoy the fact that there are some people out there who self consciously and purposefully inflict themselves with chickens. More power to them I say. It takes all kinds to make a world. But as for me and my house, I don’t like a chicken coop, I don’t like the smell, I don’t like the mess, I don’t like the way the little ingrates peck you when you try to feed them, nor the unmentionable illnesses they contract, and I don’t like having to wash my eggs.

I am a firm believer in paying the professionals to handle the problem and do the dirty work for me. And so I feel that, having made this decision to delegate my egg farming to someone who likes it, I may with a clear conscience strongly object to pulling an egg out of the carton and starting to crack it into the carrot cake, only to be scared out of my wits by a whopping huge feather, stuck (what it’s stuck with I decline to consider) to the side of it.

As a matter of fact, the whole English egg scene is more than a little disturbing. There are Read More