Whew. I shipped off my SVE gift yesterday and now I've got fingers and toes crossed that it'll get to my partner in time. I loved making the little present(s) and you can see a sneak peek above. How are you intrepid SVE participants doing? All done? Getting ready to dash to the post office as I did? It occurred to me that I've been remiss about extolling the virtues of my partner-in-crime, Ute. Just as she did last year, she took on the bulk of the Secret Valentine Exchange work with her …
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Happy Friday + Randomness
Happy Friday! To all our lovely SVE participants, how's your planning going? I'm currently trying to get a few other projects wrapped up, but am looking forward to diving in to gift-making and have outsized ambitions to ship a package out before the end of next week. Will it happen? We shall see... One of the projects I finally checked off was tidying our monstrous paperwork. It was a bear, I tell you, but oh-so-necessary since I had to hunt down info for health insurance and found the state …
Happy Friday + Randomness
K made me a ring. She glued one of those aquarium glass beads to a broken metal band that she scrounged up from somewhere. Then she tucked it inside a clasping shell container and wrote a note. Because this came in the mail: I probably don't have to tell you that I became quite emotional. I had a moment of terror before I opened the box. "What if I hate it? What if I feel disappointed?" I don't, I wasn't. No, not even close. There are too many things I love about it to list them here. …
Monday Outfit: Seeking the Comfy-Stylish Factor
Good morning! It feels like it's been a very long time since I've sewn for K. There are many things I need to sew for her: more pants, warm cardis, hats, mittens. But I wanted to set the tone for the new year with this first garment -- something that blended comfort with style. Or so I hoped. With that in mind, I sketched out some ideas, and decided on a half knit, half woven tunic. Which somehow turned into a dress. This little raglan dress is entirely self-drafted, …
Happy Friday + Randomness
I dated a Zen monk-in-training for a brief period when I lived in San Francisco. He was brilliant, hilarious, foul-mouthed yet eloquent and used phrases like "we are copacetic," and I would tell him to knock it off with the pretension (and then I asked him what copacetic meant. It means "excellent", in case you didn't know either). We didn't mesh as a couple, but I treasured the friendship, and I greatly admired his commitment to meditation. Like yoga, meditation is something I've tried and …