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The top to match the bottoms
In keeping with the “things I saw two years ago when I was a newbie sewist and wanted to try but didn’t” theme, I turned to Nancy of Belle Epoque and her Tie Tank Top Tute to make a top to match my new pajama bottoms. Again, I found it quite simple to make, now [...]
continue reading "The top to match the bottoms"A Month of Hands
I’m eager to get into a new daily photography project, and here it is: A Month of Hands. Won’t you join me?
Our hands are always busy, always making art, preparing meals, helping children, keeping journals, driving vehicles, holding doors open, tying shoelaces, applying nail polish, picking berries… all of those things and many, many more.
I [...]
Not so intimidating anymore
From the moment I saw the lounge pants in Amy Butler’s In Stitches, I was smitten. This was two years ago, and I had barely a month of sewing under my belt. Every delicious project in that book looked impossibly complicated to me, so after a month of drooling over the pants, the apron, and [...]
continue reading "Not so intimidating anymore"Seasons change
Yes, they do. Spring changes to summer, and strawberry season changes to blueberry season. While Friday night we were enjoying a delicious Strawberry Lemonade Smoothie, with what may prove to be the last batch of farmers’ market strawberries we see this year, Sunday afternoon saw us ushering in the blueberry.
With rides – those of the [...]
continue reading "Seasons change"Flower Power
My six-year-old has developed this habit of telling me how cute I look when I wear a particular pair of pajama bottoms. He’s taken to calling them my “cute pajamas” and coos at me every time I wear them. Today, in fact, he nearly forbade me to get dressed because it would mean putting [...]
continue reading "Flower Power"Hands and nightstands
Becky from Whosies commented on a recent post and let me know about her Nightstand Play Along. I snapped a picture of mine this morning. To be honest, the nightstand is probably the neatest spot in my bedroom (notice how I rarely photograph any other section of the room? Life as seen through the lens [...]
continue reading "Hands and nightstands"Hopelessly boring
I feel hopelessly boring when I greet you with this kind of post, but until I get my act together enough to clean up my workspace, there’s no chance of anything crafty happening. I promise it will be soon. The itch to Make Stuff is getting stronger and stronger. I’ve been satisfying that urge somewhat [...]
continue reading "Hopelessly boring"Camera fun
I curled up on the couch this weekend with a can of Dr.Pepper and a copy of How to Photograph Absolutely Everything, a great new book I picked up at the library on a whim. It was my plan to read through some of the basics, play around with my camera, and see if [...]
continue reading "Camera fun"Herb Croutons
I brought a tossed salad to a Father’s Day BBQ today. I gathered most of the ingredients from the Morristown Farmers’ Market this morning, and had intended to make my own salad dressing and croutons, too. I vaguely remember having done both before, but not being pleased enough with the results to repeat the process.
I [...]
I’m blogging this
Today was the last day of school (finally!) and tonight we’re celebrating with a slumber party.
Just the four of us, enjoying a bowl of snacks,
re-watching the last few episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender,
and sleeping on Mommy-made quilts.
To be completely accurate, I’m not really watching Avatar. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a surprisingly [...]
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