Hello! I didn't mean to stay away for 3 weeks, but life has a way of creating a vortex of activities that then turn into more activities...but enough with the excuses. I am, in fact, still in retreat mode and haven't really been online much. Instead, I've been spending more time making things and it's been restorative. I have to say: knitters, I finally get it. After years and years of balking at the craft, citing inane things such as "I can't seem to count!" or "I just don't have the ... Read more
Gone on Vacation
Good morning! I am actually still here. In Seattle. Or rather, as I write this we are preparing for an overnight "trip" to a suburb for the last of K's birthday celebration. We will stay in the new-ish McMenamins Anderson School, which should be quite the experience. It's possible that we've gone a tad bonkers for our only child's 10th birthday, but...well, I don't feel too bad about it. We only live once and who cares what other people think, right? I have a feeling she's going to remember her ... Read more
Happy Friday + Randomness
Happy Friday! Keeping it super duper short today since we're attempting to get out of town this weekend. Above is one of the projects I worked on recently for the Seattle Japanese Garden that I believe is already printed by now. I had a wonderful time painting this, and it will be part of their self walking tour brochure. Fun! I hope to work on more maps in the future. I recently saw this book and this book in a store, and deliberated long and hard about purchasing them, but in the end, I left ... Read more
Health Food Experiments: Kombucha and Spiralizer
Yesterday, K and I had an epic playdate with some friends (gotta keep the kiddos entertained), and I was introduced to homemade kombucha. Have you ever had kombucha? The fermented tea can be easily made at home if you have a starter SCOBY, which is an acronym for "symbiotic 'colony' of bacteria and yeast". My friend has been brewing up a batch regularly and kindly sent me home with my own jug to ferment. I had a sampling to taste, and it has the tang of apple cider vinegar with more sweetness. I ... Read more
The “Unicorn” Pillow
Remember all the hullabaloo about which top I should make with the pink ponies silk for K's birthday? Well, when 11pm rolled around the night before her 10th b-day and the fabric hadn't even been ironed, I knew that I was in trouble. And then I remembered that Shelley had left a brilliant comment about embroidering a unicorn horn, an idea with which I became obsessed. She also suggested wings, but that was beyond my mental and embroidery capabilities at the literal 11th hour. So I came up ... Read more