wishing: lovely bathroom

My friend Ginger re-did her bathroom much in the manner I’ve been dreaming about. This probably would not work in my current home, but maybe in my next home. She wanted to have the feel of an old-time wash-basin, and the water faucet is reminiscent of a pump handle. Didn’t this turn out lovely? The [...]

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papercutting

Alert – Alert – How did I not know this lovely lady has a blog? And that she offers that most wonderful, magical, heel-jumping-awesomeness — Free Templates! You’re welcome.

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keeping busy

Did everyone have a good holiday? I sure hope so. Weather here was uneventful, and today at 42-degrees it’s darn-right pleasant. The family caught a cold, of course (everything can’t be perfectly perfect, right?), so that’s still sort of in full swing, or at least, not to the getting-better stage. But otherwise, a very nice [...]

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Ho Ho Ho

Merry Christmas, everyone! Our Christmas cactus is showing it’s stuff just in time, what a treat. I hope everyone has a terrific holiday, with friends and family and a cozy home. Thank you so much for visiting my blog, checking in, and buying my paintings. Have a very merry Christmas, and may the new year [...]

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more on pie

This is a link to a fascinating article about one man’s attempt to improve his apple pie recipe. (And who isn’t fascinated by pie? **Looks around room. No hands raised. That’s what I thought!**) I’m going to have to try that pie-crust tip of substituting vodka for half the water. The theory behind it, is [...]

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Pink

Yes, there is still a lot of stuff to be done before Christmas, but I couldn’t resist picking up these yarns because they are so inexpensive. The chenille is the same that I worked with last year to create the raspberry scarfette, so I already know it’s a great yarn; I’ll use the bobbles concurrently [...]

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Reading: Hunger Games, The (2008)

When I went to watch a certain serial vampire movie (rhymes with Twilight), one of the trailers was for a movie set in a dystopia where kids had to fight to the death to win a reality game. “Cool,” I said, “they’ve finally made Battle Royal,” by Koushun Takami (2003), “into a movie!” My friend [...]

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paintings: a few for etsy

I’ll be taken my usual holiday two-week hiatus from selling on ebay, but I’ll still be putting up new paintings on etsy. Here are several of my new ones for this week!

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1-day-project: child’s apron

This was actually about a half-hour project, start to finish. I used this pattern, except sized down to fit my daughter. I did also make the same apron but sized for me, except I didn’t have enough fabric to make the fully wrap-around apron strings, which this pattern really needs. And I didn’t take a [...]

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gardening: heirloom seeds and variety

Look at this lovely “Moon and stars” watermelon. It is one of several varieties of garden vegetables the Victory Seed Company is trying to help not go extinct. Look at their page of seeds under the Ark of Taste category. Wouldn’t it be fun to help some varieties not go extinct? I was just reading [...]

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