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…
Beach Paradise
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…
2009 Year of Pleasures #36
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…
2009 Year of Pleasures #34
I took the quickest picture ever before tearing into this package of fabric because I couldn’t resist the wrapping. It’s just simple as can be, but when the fabric I order online is usually wrapped in plastic bags, I found…
2009 Year of Pleasures #31
I’m leaving in minutes to spend the rest of the week in Utah for this conference I keep talking about, but I’m most excited for it because I get to catch up with some of my most favorite people from…
Crafting FAIL
Just in case any of you were operating under the delusion that everything I make works out perfect every time….. Styrofoam melts in the oven. Thought you should know.
2009 Year of Pleasures #29
Earlier this summer I was tooling around a beach town with Karen, my cousin/favorite shopping buddy. We were walking past this shop that was obviously serving a clientele that did not include me. Lots of things you’d see at your…
The Long Form
I don’t really know if it’s because I’m a mom now, or because I’m getting older and (hopefully) maturing, or just a new attempt at mindfulness inspired by this wonderful craft blogging community, but for the first time in my…
Things I’m loving right now…
Here’s what I’m spending my time on while it’s been too hot to be productive: This game. These puzzles. This webseries. This music. (Seriously. Listen to the first track. Amazing) And this music. These TV shows. These really awesome podcasts.…
2009 Year of Pleasures #28
It has been SO. Darn. Hot. here over the last couple of weeks. Too hot to cook, too hot to wear clothes you’d be seen in public in, too hot to touch another human. There are only so many nights…