When we moved in to this house, it was pretty much the culmination of a lot of dreams come true for me. Finally, I felt like I could put down roots. Finally I would be in the same place for…
Pillow Trial and Error
I kind of disappeared last week because I got a bee in my bonnet. I’ve been hard at work feathering my nest in preparation for the long winter. Or in other words, trying to clear my desk off and batten…
Herb Garden Markers
The last part of our house left untouched was our backyard. It was seriously rough. Like, we had a jungle threatening to swallow our house. See? We’ve been slowly slowly slowly ripping out all this stuff. I’m sure the same…
Super Nephew
My cute little nephew Micah turned five back in May, and because Atti had *just* come home from the hospital and was still on oxygen, I missed his big birthday shindig. I also had no time to make him anything,…
Recover a lampshade
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…
Micah’s Dragonskin Bag
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…
A Crafter’s Christmas starts in July
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.…
Year of Pleasures #13
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…
This explains things…
Maybe this is why it takes me so long to get anything done.
Worlds Most Basic Quilted Coasters
One of the biggest adjustments for me in moving into this house was going from nasty crappy apartment carpeting to hardwood floors. There are so many things about having no carpeting that is just fantastic – especially to someone with…