I have been in rescue mode lately. I think it must be a combination of emerging from sick season, where everyone in my family needed soup and tea, and a need to revitalize after a long winter. Lately, even in my dreams I find myself restoring and taking care of what has been left behind….
nesting
Almost springtime always makes me feel like almost cleaning. You know – the move that futon here, install some new shelves, paint a stool, sort my buttons by color kind of cleaning. Definitely not the dusting, mopping, scrub the grout with a toothbrush kind of cleaning. Between all of our almost cleaning, birthday celebrations, and…
juxtaposition
poem=1998 picture=2008 a coastal day twice we pass by that “wedding cake house” pasted with Rococo froth. my warm soda is leaving sap of sugar on my gums. too much. can we go? no time for grainy snapshots from your twenty five cents hunk of gray camera. i can’t breathe with thick steady streams of…
heart strings
We made heart strings for Valentine’s Day. It all began with Trader Joe’s paper bags that had pretty red designs on the back and my love for sewing things that are not fabric. I cut the paper bags so they were flat, mixed up some pink, purple, and red paints, and set Chick to work…
table
I have been in total planning mode the past few days, which is why I haven’t posted as much as I have wanted to. Projects 1. recovering two thrifted chairs (I will have before and after shots) 2. sturdying an old stool and repainting with red milk paint (I will have before and after shots)…
under ten
Miss Mouse is now a little over one, which means she has reached the age where she is nosing around in cabinets, playing with sharp pencils, and sucking the little knob on the door that houses the garbage can every second of the day. Well, at least it feels that way. A list of the…
eat & look book
This pumpkin, oatmeal, applesauce muffin is my new favorite muffin. You can sprinkle sugar in the raw on the top before baking or an oatmeal, butter, brown sugar topping. Pumpkin Applesauce Muffins based loosely on Jessica Seinfeld’s Deceptively Delicious recipe for “applesauce muffins” Ingredients: 3/4 cup of white flour 3/4 cup of wheat flour 1…
noon
Shortly after we arrive home from picking Chick up from preschool, Miss Mouse beds down for her afternoon nap. The house becomes sleepy and quiet. On sunny days, the living room floods with light. While I chop and melt and spread, Chick usually begins to gather supplies for the daily birthday party or picnic that…
sisters
This picture was taken one year ago when Miss Mouse was very wee and new. I love how their two heads fit together like a puzzle. Like they belong together.
push pins
I have this perpetual pile of scraps, which is full of fabric with clever little designs and patterns. I never really knew what to do with these too small, irregular lost souls *until* I met my new best friend: the cover button. It is the perfect little project because each button takes no more than…
blue
a list of some of my favorite blue things 1. Miss Mouse’s eyes 2. this Fire King mug (yes, it is an oven proof mug – you never know) 3. the cupboard in our kitchen 4. this little glass container 5. my stash of turquoise 100% wool felt 6. the sky just before a rain…
over the hills
Chickpea and I went to her friend’s birthday party today. This little person happens to be her first friend. Ever. (His mom and I met when the babies were still in that really cute crinkled up, baby potato sack stage). The long drive was sunlit. Our local radio station was playing the top 93 songs…
three
trees in the moonlight on navy blue mama bird with baby on black three little fishies on navy
potato
We belong to a beautiful and fruitful CSA (community sustained agriculture) farm where, at the end of the fall, we went home with way more potatoes then we could possibly eat. So, we got crafty and made potato stamps. They will rot after a few days, which is the perfect excuse to become obsessed with…
blurry
I am not sure if it is the balls of cat fur that are drifting across the floors and making tiny piles in the corners of our house or the bags of felt and yarn that were supposed to be made into holiday gifts, but our house definitely feels like something came and went. Like…
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