I Can’t Miss the Encore Book Release!

by | Sep 10, 2025 | Encore

Note From Kristine Day, Author of: I Can’t Miss the Encore Family, Friends, and Everyone, It’s taken me 10 years to write “Encore.” Actually, it’s taken a lifetime. But I Can’t Miss the Encore, is finally published and on Amazon. BUY...

Family Haircuts

by | Nov 24, 2025 | Artist, Encore

This is my family in about 1970. This is a photo of the haircuts I wrote about on page 30 of my memoir: I Can’t Miss the Encore. My mom’s sisters were professional beautitians. My mom was an artist but not when it came to haircuts and styles. Even our...

Our Homemade Clay Oven

by | Nov 21, 2025 | Artist, Recycle/Repurpose

Clay Oven I’ve wanted to build a clay oven for years. Finally, it was time when we were digging a hole to put our garden carrots into cold storage for the winter and hit clay. I began planning. The idea was to use all natural, recycled/repurposed-everything to build...

My Perception of the Cass Identity Model an LGBTQ Identity Development Process Charlie Bird introduced to me in his book, Expanding the Borders of Zion a Latter-day Saint Perspective on LGBTQ Inclusion

by | Nov 21, 2025 | Author, Encore

The 6 Stages of “Coming Out,” about the Cass Model of Identity Development My friend, Jan Skousen, sent me Charlie Bird’s book, Expanding the Borders of Zion a Latter-day Saint Perspective on LGBTQ Inclusion, for Christmas in 2022. I’m so glad she did....

3D Quilts Made with Stuffed Animals

by | Nov 19, 2025 | Artist, Recycle/Repurpose

3D Stuffed Animal Quilts Years ago, I don’t remember how long ago, I got this crazy idea to sew a quilts, repurposing stuffed animals. I’ve made these amazing crazy quilts for almost all my grandkids since then. I create a background, sometimes a very...

Coral Reef Diorama in the Front Room

by | Nov 19, 2025 | Advocate for Homeschool, Artist

Our Corl Reef Nathan and Ben help build a coral reef in out entry way, the same entryway where we built the rainforest. Heidi, a neighbor, and some of her friends we met in a IFYAC, Idaho Falls Youth Art Center, where our kids were involved in plays, came a couple...

Greenhouse We Built With Recycled Windows

by | Nov 18, 2025 | Encore, Recycle/Repurpose

Sometime, I don’t remember when, I began saving old wooden windows which had been replaced by the new plastic type. I kept my eyes open for old windows. I intended to build a greenhouse. Those windows I had found sat for years waiting for me to use them. Finally, I...