Tom’s grandfather passed away this evening. This post is in memory of an incredibly sweet man who never missed one of our girls’ birthday parties.
vertical
A few days ago, my four year old got her craft on and made this vertical garland. She went digging in the recycle bin for materials (how proud am I?) and decided to use a paper towel tube. After tearing it up into a bunch of medium sized pieces, she decorated them with colored…
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…
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…
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…
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…
