june at noon

Last weekend we went to a nearby, very family-friendly amusement park, home of one of the largest remaining carousels. All 63 of the horses were hand carved in 1912, and I was struck by what a lot of time and skill that must have taken. We stayed long after the rides had started to light [...]

The redwork is finished and winging its way to Australia. I am hopeful that it will survive the trip in tact (no nosy customs officials poking around at it—ah, all those little loose ends so carefully tucked in!). I feel honored to have participated in the project with so many amazing people, to have done [...]

See what’s blooming right outside my front window: It’s tall enough that I can see it from inside. So then I am tempted to wander outside to see it closer. And then I see these: And this pretty, green, pebbly path: And then it’s very hard to go back inside and get anything at all [...]

My dad is the person who taught me to crochet. How did he learn such a skill? The story goes that when I was quite young, he worked at a bank. There was a group of older ladies there too, and on their lunch breaks they would sit and crochet together. They convinced my dad [...]

Oh, the hubs, he’s good. Earlier this week he decided to give me an early birthday gift. To start, there was a storage box. He knows I like to have things to put things in. And he even went to the trouble to pick a box with an interior paper that I’d like. But there [...]

Big wip is still … in progress. In the meantime I’m finding oodles of inspiration in all the spring that has sprung around here. This week we took a stroll through Gran’s gardens and collected some spring blooms. Then we plopped them, toddler style, into a vintage puppy vase that belonged to my great grandmother. [...]

I am in love with all the beautiful buds that are blooming right now. How can you not be inspired by all the colors and shapes? We had a nice, warm weekend full of leisurely walks, visits with out-of-town relatives, sidewalk chalk drawings, and a little flower picking. I’d say it was a success.

I was going to take pictures of the mounds of wadded up, used tissues overflowing from wastebaskets, stuffed in pockets, collected in little piles on side tables, to show you why I’ve been silent so long, but I decided that would just be gross. And I don’t want to spread my germs. So instead, here’s [...]

This Christmas, as friends and family were opening the gifts that I had put so much time into making for them, people kept commenting, “You really did a lot this Christmas!” or asking, “When did you find time to do all of this?” Let’s just say that, starting in early November and going straight through [...]

Since I’m still working on the same project–which I hope to complete tonight, fingers crossed–I thought I’d share some inspiration from the Flickr embroidery pool. (Click on the links if you’d like to be redirected to the page that has the individual photo and information.) First, just some lovely stitching that makes me happy. 1. [...]