Welcome Home!

Growing up, one of my favorite ways to pass the time was sitting at the kitchen table while my grandmother cooked, playing with paper and paste. I cut up old greeting cards and clipped pictures out of magazines and catalogs. With a little construction paper, glitter and imagination I could entertain myself for hours.

Then, when I was a teenager I fell for vintage calling cards and ephemera. I collected pretty pieces at flea markets and antique shows and used some of them to make my own cards and collages, one-of-a-kind creations I gave to friends and sent out at the holidays.

Later, when my own children came along, we kept the tradition. We clipped and glued and glittered. We embellished each little work of art with buttons and scraps of fabrics and lace and, even today, all I have to do is close my eyes and I can hear little voices saying, “Mama, look at this.”

Some things, like valentines and Mother’s Day cards, are sweetest when they are handmade, or at least hand-delivered.

This week in Home

After moving to Sandpoint, Barbara Schriber followed her mother, Melissa Neufield, into the world of paper creations. Then, to bring it all full circle, her mother followed her to the Northwest.

The story of Schriber’s adventure is our cover feature.

Open house

It wouldn’t be Mother’s Day in Spokane without the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture’s annual Mother’s Day Historic Home Tour. Today, we’ll give you a sneak peek into one of the homes on this year’s tour as well as information about how you can see all the houses that will be open for the weekend.

Like mother like daughter

In keeping with our Mother’s Day theme, we introduce you to a couple who followed her parents lead into becoming owners of a downtown condominium, and we profile a mother-daughter team of artists.

Front page doom and gloom projections aside, family is still the most important thing to most of us.

And in this week’s issue of Home, we’re willing to put that on paper.