This week has been stuffed to the brim with doctors appointments and occupational therapy appointments and ophthalmologist appointments. I’m exhausted. I’ve been driving all over creation, and on Tuesday I spent the entire day an hour away from home as I went to one appointment, and then waited six hours for my next appointment. My […]
[Continue reading...]Recover a lampshade
August 9, 2008
As I showed off in my house tour, my dining room fixtures look like this now: They started as the same drop pendants, but with a thin marigold colored glass shade. The shade was so small that the fixtures disappeared in the room, and once I painted everything, the marigold color was just awful. I […]
[Continue reading...]Year of Pleasures #14
August 8, 2008
Why is it that, when Bear can’t even brush my leg with his feet without me recoiling in horror, I somehow can’t seem to keep these little toes out of my mouth. It’s a mystery to me.
[Continue reading...]Micah’s Dragonskin Bag
August 5, 2008
Last Christmas Atticus was included (in utero) in Bear’s immediate family’s gift exchange. He got some crazy cute clothes “from” his little cousin Kai (including the tiniest velor tracksuit ever made), and as a fetus he was responsible for his cousin Micah’s present. Micah is really into his “guys.” He collects all kinds of action […]
[Continue reading...]A Crafter’s Christmas starts in July
August 1, 2008
One of my ultimate goals it to be the house on the block that everyone shakes their heads at come Christmas time. The ones that are so ridiculously over the top that people refer to us as the Griswold house. I don’t know that it will ever happen on the outside. Right now our house […]
[Continue reading...]How I have changed
July 31, 2008
Yesterday I got a comment from Shades that made me just stop in my tracks and evaluate things in my life. Earlier you stated that you weren’t maternal by any means (and that you’d rather go to graduate school and be a writer or a therapist, enjoying the undivided attention of your husband and all […]
[Continue reading...]Year of Pleasures #13
July 30, 2008
The great table collapse of ’07 destroyed nearly all of my dishes, and most of what remained (after the mover destruction of ’03) of my original set of china. I really grieved this loss because beautiful dishes are symbolic for me. It’s what I have to offer the people I love. They are tools I […]
[Continue reading...]Moan..whimper..moan
July 29, 2008
Atticus and I seem to have caught some kind of a stomach bug. I’ve been up all night for the past two nights spending some quality time in the bathroom, and Atticus has had some crazy diapers for the first time in his little life. On top of the stomach bug, I wrenched my back […]
[Continue reading...]This explains things…
July 25, 2008
I did it. Holy Cow.
July 23, 2008
If you’ve been paying any attention to my progress bars over there, you may have noticed one ignored forlorn little bar mysteriously titled “my craft book”. You may also vaguely remember some time around, let’s see….TWO YEARS AGO that I was asking for titles for a book proposal. And then of course my life exploded […]
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