Hello, my friends. How are you? How different the world is since I last posted here. Nothing like a pandemic to stop you in your tracks, to take stock of all that is. It's very odd. I was experiencing a sense of deja vu as events unfolded, and I kept trying to figure out why that would be. It finally occurred to me that I had felt this very same sense of foreboding and out-of-control-ness and unmooring when my health was at its worst, back in 2012. I was homebound for the most part back …
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Another Year of Magical Thinking
Hello, my friends! Here it is, my last post of the year, squeaking in at the very last minute. Overall, 2019 was a profound year for me. I changed a lot, accomplished so many goals. I failed and failed and failed, too. One of the biggest changes of all: I am no longer afraid of public speaking. In fact, I might even go as far to say that I enjoy it now. That's not to say that I'm any good at it, but I've stopped caring that I'm not. Just last month, I stood in front of two hundred elementary …
Greetings from Japan!
Hello, hello! K and I have spent a glorious time in Japan for the last 11 days, and we're having a hard time leaving. I have so many thoughts and emotions right now and though I'm unable to organize them in a coherent way at the moment, I wanted to pop in to say hello. I also wanted to talk about Ogden camis. For this trip, I somehow made four Ogden Camis by True Bias Patterns in two days before embarking on the plane to Narita. I originally purchased the PDF pattern and then printed it …
TEENAGER + BOOK GIVEAWAY {CLOSED}
Hello, hello! Here is a rare photo of M -- this one's from 13 years ago. K is only a few days old in this image, and for several months, she frequently slept on M's chest like this. Today, my baby is 13. THIRTEEN. M had a birthday last week as well, and he always says that K has been the best present he's ever received and I couldn't agree more. Perhaps the one downside is that ever since she popped out, his birthday has been upstaged by hers (sorry, honey). He doesn't seem to mind. I …
Attention Span + New Sewing Gadgets
Hello, my friends! How are you? Are blogs still a thing? I'm committed to updating my little space at least once a month, but I get the sense that the collective attention span has been rapidly dwindling (including mine for sure) and Instagram is so much easier, isn't it? Despite my amoeba-like attention span, I can spend so much time just consuming images -- which perplexes me. There have been times when an entire HOUR (or more!) will have been frittered away while I mindlessly scroll through …