Lovely things

Hello. Here are a couple glimpses from around our house today. My new studio, in our former third bedroom, is almost done. T is building a glorious built-in very simple, extra long desk for me along two walls. Finally, for the first time in my life I’ll have enough space to write and do art….to [...]

Small perfect things

Things I want to remember about the weekend: Sounds: the exquisite laughter and glee of the under six set at discovering plastic colored eggs strewn about our friend’s back yard; the peepers trilling, bumble bees, bellies fat, new from sleeping in the mud buzzing around beside our picnic blanket; the evening wind rushing up the [...]

More Snapshots

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”–Annie Dillard Maple sugar on the first snow of the season… TEETH! Our advent wreath with a little twirly mobile from Germany (a childhood tradition.) Our first gingerbread house attempt this year. Bean cut out the templates and the dough. And mixed everything. [...]

Tangent-worthy snapshots:

We made cinnamon rolls this morning: Bean measuring the flour out, his eyebrows getting dusted as the mixer kicked into high gear; going to gather eggs first. (We have an interesting flock this year: Aracunas, New Hampshir Reds, Cuckoo Marans, Barred Rocks and a Buff Orpington rooster.) While the dough rose in my favorite vintage [...]

Live Blogging Thursday

Hi Thursday. I’ve been off in my own world lately, doing things. One of the things I have been doing is trying to sort out some issues with my blog and the funky charset issues that occurred with an upgrade to a newer version of WordPress. As a result I’ve been going through my archives, [...]