I have been running myself ragged over the last couple of weeks. Even after all the quilting and building and fruit picking, there is more I have to tell you including actual farming and four straight days of canning. I am exhausted, my poor child is neglected, and my kitchen floor is coated with sugar […]
[Continue reading...]Quilt in progress
June 16, 2010
So along with gallivanting through the countryside and embarking on complicated furniture builds, the other thing that kept me distracted from my typical blogging duties was this Mondrian quilt I finished designing last week. I can. Not. tear myself away from it. I stopped making dinner, I ignored my family, I thought about it when […]
[Continue reading...]2010 Year of Pleasures #24
June 15, 2010
I spent an entire day last week trying to track down lumber options to have my kitchen island custom built, and guess what we found this weekend? It was absolute serendipity. We were making plans to drive an hour a way in a rented pickup truck to buy the materials we’d need, when Bear got […]
[Continue reading...]Cherry picking on the farm
June 14, 2010
Sorry for my sudden mini-hiatus. I’ve been overwhelmed with good things and no time to keep track of them. I have two weeks of fun to share with you, and that’s always a nice development heading in to summer. We’re still getting used to the new climate, but I anticipate my posts a few weeks […]
[Continue reading...]Modern Art in Quilt Form
June 9, 2010
Having so thoroughly expressed my love for midcentury design, it should probably come as no surprise that my favorite painters come from the modern art category. I love the art nouveau work of Klimt, I love the whimsy of late Kandinsky, the color fields of Rothko, the cubism of Picasso, and of course, the clean […]
[Continue reading...]2010 Year of Pleasures #23
June 8, 2010
This guy’s hair just kills me. I have no idea how I ended up with a blond haired hazel eyed little man. If it weren’t for that chin and that nose I’d wonder if he was switched in the NICU.
[Continue reading...]Beadwork Inspired by Art
June 7, 2010
When we came up to Modesto in the beginning of April to look for a house, I was having a really tough time with the fact that we couldn’t find anything. So I took myself for a little date to my favorite craft store to see how it was doing in my time away. I […]
[Continue reading...]Fine Art Beading Project
June 4, 2010
This is one of those ridiculously large scale projects I got underway last week. It’s something that’s been kicking around in my head forever but I can only now get around to it because I planned it all out, but also because I finally saved up enough money to pay for the thousands of seed […]
[Continue reading...]Best friends
June 3, 2010
2010 Year of Pleasures #22
June 2, 2010
I worry you guys are going to get so sick of my bragging. Solid wood dresser, beat up pretty badly but super sturdy. $15. I think I have a Craigslist angel. This was actually a total accidental bit of serendipity. I have been working for weeks to try to get the garage in enough order […]
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