I work in a forest and the view from my office window is like looking out of a tree house. It sounds great, and usually is, but lately I’ve been staring at my computer all day and have hardly even glanced at my treee-house view, much less actually set foot on a trail. The work [...]
Our tree has been down for a while, the decorations dismantled and the 12 days of Christmas ended yesterday so why am I still blogging about it?’ Well, I got some fabulous handmade gifts and want to share them with you and give a little shout out to their super talented makers. I was a [...]
Posted in Celebrate, Children, Family, Halloween, Holidays, Places, Portland on Nov 2nd, 2008
Mike and I didn’t really get into Halloween this year. Oh sure, we dressed sesame up as a batbaby and went to the Kennedy School where she got some candy and we got beer and then ate her candy.’ We didn’t put up decorations or even carve pumpkins and I usually love pumpkin carving! If [...]
Posted in Autumn, Celebrate, Eat Well, Local Eating, Places, Portland, Seasons, Uncategorized on Oct 22nd, 2008
We went to the Apple Celebration at the Portland Nursery last weekend and and tasted over 60 kinds of apples and pears! Luckily we got a paper to write notes on and we learned a lot about apples. We bought a bunch of apples too so next up- applesauce! Even sesame got into the harvest [...]
Hey readers, If you’re in the Portland area, stop by Crafty Wonderland on Sunday the 12th and say hi! I’ll be selling things from my shop along with 39 other fabulous crafty people and there’ll be a DIY table and other fun things happening. I’d also like to give a shout out to Katie of [...]
Posted in Create, Felted Sweaters, Places, Portland on Jun 18th, 2006
This post is going to be mostly pictures and few words because it’s late and I’m tired. You may remember this sweater from a while back. The sweather that I loved for many years that finally got too many holes to wear. Well, I have transformed it into this!I felted it, embroidered it with …
It is becoming apparent that I have a problem. A serious problem finishing my projects. I finished knitting this lovely tank top ages ago but only 1/2 the fabric is sewed on. I try to make myself feel better by saying that I knit 2 mother’s day scarves and 2 silly apple cozies in the [...]
The olympic knitting continues. We’re over 30% through the olympics and amazingly, I’m over 30% done with River! I had a minor setback when I had to tink back 3 rows but that little problem of an extra yarn over has been fixed. I knit a ton on Monday because I had the day off [...]
