I'm craving stillness to think thoughts, read books, to sew and sow and slow down These images are outtakes from the book (the top one was styled by Rachel, the one below by Allie; both were shot by me) -- you may be seeing a lot more outtakes since there were so many images I wanted to include that didn't make the cut. Anyway, wishing you all a slower-paced weekend (unless you want a faster-paced, exciting one, of course)! P.S. I'm getting a serious case of ... Read more
Totally Teepee
Good morning, friends! I hadn't been able to wrap my head around making plans for the long Memorial Day weekend, but by last Thursday evening, my projects were starting to look somewhat manageable so it seemed only fair that I try to add at least a little bit of fun. Luckily, K's got initiative, and she had invited a friend for a Friday sleepover. I was able to get even more work done while K played with her buddy and on a whim, I booked a short Saturday/Sunday getaway for my family. As ... Read more
Freshly Laundered Linen
There's something about freshly washed linen that's a mood booster. I'm talking about plain fabric here, and not fitted sheets or shams. Rumpled and textured and oh-so-soft, when I look at these, I pretend I live in the French countryside in a charming villa painted a dusty bleu-grey, overlooking fields of lavender. I can practically hear a baby goat bleating nearby. I have plans for these beauties. But because I've noticed that I categorically avoid making the things I declare as part of ... Read more
Happy Friday + Randomness
Happy Friday! Whenever my mom visits, she's a little wistful that she's unable to paint in Seattle. I get it -- she doesn't have her usual supplies, her routine is completely disrupted and most of all, she says she doesn't feel like she has a space of her own, mentally or physically. Still, she's an artist through and through so when a watercolor set happens to be lying around, she'll whip up a painting like the one above while chatting to K. This kind of painting doesn't count for her though; ... Read more
It goes too fast
This is K when she was just a little over 18 months back in 2008. Last night, we had dinner at a friend's house and I watched K and her two buddies play and eat and argue and reconcile and laugh hysterically. She's known them since birth and nearly 10 years later, they're still the best of friends. They used to be so small, they all fit snugly in a basket: I had mentioned in a post a while back that I wish I had a photo of the very first top that I sewed for her, and I found it while I ... Read more