On the way back to Milwaukee at the end of our Spring Break Road Trip we decided to stop a couple of places in Chicago to add two more Mold-...

I went to my third varnish workshop in April and this was the best one yet.  I went for the first time in 2013 when it was in Boston (duri...

In April I was lucky enough to attend a week-long violin varnishing workshop .  I really enjoyed the one I attended three years ago in Bos...

Whew.  We just finished birthday season, we hosted Thanksgiving, and we just started focusing in on the Christmas stuff.  I'm always ama...

Happy New Year!  Welcome to a long catch-up post. Even though I am a person who doesn't do new year's resolutions, I've decide...

Either you are a collector or you aren't.  It's an irrational tendency disguised by order.  Some of us simply derive deep satisfacti...

I have to say, the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois takes its Mold-A-Ramas seriously.  When we started our collection last year the only Mold-A...

As part of an extended birthday celebration for Mona over Thanksgiving weekend we took a couple of trips down to Chicago.  The first was wit...

We're getting better at these little jaunts down to Chicago on our quest for Mold-A-Ramas !  We've hit nearly every site that has th...

Do you know the story of the Taoist Farmer?  I heard it the first time in a martial arts class many years ago.  The version of the story I r...

For Mold-A-Rama collectors (which we have decided we are) there are three, big jackpot places to get Mold-A-Ramas: The Milwaukee County and...

My kids and I just returned from a brief trip to Detroit, and on our way home we stopped at the Lincoln Park Zoo where we got two more Mol...

This year's BlogHer convention is happening down in Chicago.  I've been waiting for it to be held somewhere accessible for years, bu...