It’s no secret that I love all things miniature and fairy, and I also love all things Tasha Tudor. So when I can combine the two it’s so much better. I saw the pattern to make boxes like Tasha Tudor’s Sparrow Post on her family’s website, and had… Read More »Making Fairy Post Boxes
I’ve been revisiting making rope baskets this week. I’ve made a few here and there, and have put a few in my shop (and need to restock). I love the meditative quality of stitching spirals. One of the baskets I made recently is a type of harvest basket. … Read More »The Link Between Driving and Baskets
With seven children in our family, the chances of having two birthdays close together were pretty high. We got that out of the way pretty quickly with our first two children, whose birthdays are three days apart (and four years, lest someone misunderstand and think they’re twins). Our… Read More »The Cluster Birthdays
We’ve been working more on the kitchen. The pictures aren’t pretty, but they’ll show you the current state of things. Our new stove is in and working. It’s a 36″, 6-burner stove. I love the extra room I have and can actually fit my two largest pots and… Read More »The First Week of September
We had an abundance of Queen Anne’s Lace growing in a garden that really needed some weeding. As much as I love Queen Anne’s Lace, I don’t love it growing rampant and wild in my perennial beds. After I pulled it all, Silas set to helping me remove… Read More »Gathering, Dyeing, Making:: Queen Anne’s Lace and Needle Books
We started renovating and adding on to our kitchen a long time ago. Three years ago actually (I think). We’ve gone through so many different design plans and modifications and changes to the plans and changes to the modifications and thinking we’d just scrap the whole project only… Read More »The Kitchen Project Progress
Is it just me or is time this summer going incredibly fast? We went from having plenty of summer days left to suddenly arriving in the last month of summer. There are some places farther south than where we are that summer lasts through September, and even into… Read More »Squeezing in Summer
Sometimes it’s the simplest things that take me the longest time to get done. These are actually old drapes that I made for the living room a while back – maybe 5 or 6 years ago. I liked the fabric, but the drapery look was too formal for… Read More »New Curtains for the Living Room
Our family recently adopted this sweet girl who we named Nimue. She’s about 6 months old and while her mother is a full chocolate lab, no one knows who the father is or what type of dog he may be. The shelter staff thinks she is also part… Read More »Meet Nimue
Every now and then, a stray cat will show up at our door. Sometimes, when we don’t already have five cats, we’ll open the door and welcome it into our home. (And sometimes when we do, we end up with kittens a month later.) Husband insists there must… Read More »The House for Wayward Cats