it's about time! ~ a winner & mama starts to knit

it's about time! ~ a winner & mama starts to knit

Announcement of knitting needles giveaway winners.

A late winter reprieve at the library

A late winter reprieve at the library

The afternoon is waning. I should really get going home soon. It's been good here, in this library chair. Quiet, purposeful, peaceful. This morning I prepared breakfast and put a vegetable medley in the crockpot. Packed up my box (I tote around more than just veggies in the wooden apple ...

Pre-Spring Sewing

Pre-Spring Sewing

The kiddos announced this morning their dolls needed "new spring dresses". I couldn't agree more. fresh and frilly: Celine's doll Isabella When I was growing up my mom actually sewed me a new spring dress most years until I started to prefer jeans (I haven't outgrown my jeans preference). Except ...

A shift in focus

A shift in focus

This morning I was melting my homemade skin salve to add more oil. I wish for your sakes this post was a recipe for making your own herbal salve (a healing balm you apply to cuts, scraps, bruises etc...) but it's not because I'm still working out the kinks. Hence ...

Winter Bliss

Winter Bliss

It was a lot of work getting there, to that cabin in the woods. But it was so, so worth it. To have the time and space away from ordinary life, in the woods.

the word for March

the word for March

The creative-artsy blogs I visit, Shutter Sisters being one and a whole lot of others (see NIMBY for the blogs I regularly read), are choosing words for each month throughout the year and writing about or taking photos along that theme. I generally don't like to box myself in or ...

If you're happy and you know it

If you're happy and you know it

March is not my happy month, come back and visit in September - ah, now those are happy days. But for some reason when I had Laurent take these photos of me I truly felt happy. Maybe it was the warm afternoon sun. Or perhaps my oh-so-comfy but hilarious purple, ...