Who could discriminate against this face? I know I shouldn’t blog this…there enough people I know in person who read my blog that this might come back to the source, which really wouldn’t be very productive, but I just can’t hold it in. I haven’t been able to do anything since it happened but pace […]
[Continue reading...]Crafters get blisters in the weirdest places
September 25, 2009
See? How do you get a blister on the outside of a knuckle? By having calluses on all your fingertips and spending a solid week with an exacto knife in your hand. Although I’ll tell you, the Martha Stewart knife is sooooo much better than any other. It’s remarkable how much easier it is on […]
[Continue reading...]Christmas Tree skirt recovery
September 24, 2009
I’ve been working on the tree skirt for our Family Traditions tree for years now. Like, lets see…holy cow. Six years. I just counted. It took a few of those years to get the beading finished in between other projects, then I had it sitting in the Work in Progress drawer for a few years […]
[Continue reading...]2009 Year of Pleasure #37
September 22, 2009
So You Think You Can Dance!!! I am so obsessed with this show. Man I wish I could do ANYTHING like these guys. Just amazing. I will have to be content to live vicariously through them while I eat my ice cream.
[Continue reading...]Beach Paradise
September 17, 2009
So. Relaxed. Can’t do laundry. We were put up at this fancy hotel right on the beach. And bizarrely, I was the only spouse who came. Poor Bear and his colleagues got beautiful ocean views, but they were scheduled from sunup to sundown and didn’t even get their feet wet, so all these fancy hotel […]
[Continue reading...]Decorated Bath Towels
September 16, 2009
Amy Butler’s In Stitches has a really great pattern for embellishing bathroom handtowels with a band of great fabric and a hook to hang it coming out of the bottom. Not content with perfection, I decided to create my own version. I think Amy’s method of including the fabric (it covers the whole bottom, front […]
[Continue reading...]2009 Year of Pleasures #36
September 15, 2009
Today and tomorrow Bear is trapped in a big work conference in Laguna Beach where he has to sit in lectures and eat rubbery chicken while they all make stale nursing home jokes. I, meanwhile, will be here. Or maybe poolside, or maybe just in my hotel room bed, reading an honest to goodness book. […]
[Continue reading...]Personality vs. Disability
September 15, 2009
Atti in his little red walker. If it wasn’t rented I’d paint flames on the side. Sunday’s are getting harder and harder around here. Atticus is now old enough to go into the children’s nursery and play with all the kids at church 18 months to 3 years old. Bear and I take turns staying […]
[Continue reading...]Finished again!
September 11, 2009
I’ve been on a finishing roll, and I finally managed to finish a simple project I’ve been dragging around since 2001. Way back then we went on my dream vacation to Rome. In November even, so I got to wander around my dream city when it was rainy and crisp and glorious. We stayed in […]
[Continue reading...]Finished!
September 10, 2009
Phew! All summer long with needles flying, breaking all proper crosstitching procedure by dragging this all over the place with me, including outdoors (Scandalous! The dirt! The mess!), hours and hours of Battlestar Galactica and Burn Notice later, I’ve got all the stitching done. I spent Tuesday night embroidering Atti’s name on the wool cuff […]
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