This is one of the best things I did this year. I always want to do this on my walls but, 1. I live in an apartment, 2. I don’t live alone in my apartment, and 3. I’m not really a child anymore. So, I had the pleasure and delight of helping a friend paint [...]
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Annika’s owl
Posted in home, kids, tagged kids room, owl, painting, tree on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thank goodness for snow days
Posted in Portland OR, food, handmade, knitting, nature, sewing, travel, tagged cards, Christmas, cross country skiing, fingerless mitts, gifts, handmade, Knitpicks, plein air, pumpkin butter, reusable, snow, swish dk, yarn on December 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
(left) Our street on the second day of snow in Portland. It was mostly ice by then on the street, and was latter covered with more and more snow after we left town. (right) Me attempting to cross country ski in the park in Spokane last Saturday. The best part was making tracks in deep [...]
crafty white winter wonderland
Posted in Portland OR, handmade, tagged baby, Crafty Wonderland, goodie bag, handmade, snow, snow day on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday was the Crafty Wonderland’s Super Colossal Holiday Sale. I had been planning on going early and waiting in line to be one of the first 200 shoppers (so that I could get a goodie bag full of…well, goodies). Then our friend, and Crafty Wonderland vendor, Nate and his wife had a little baby [...]
This little piggy is a poet
Posted in random daily things, tagged market, poem, spelling, this little piggy on December 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I left this note for Lars when I went to the store and he was napping. I thought it was genius. Just in case you can’t clearly see the clever poem in the photo, this is what it reads:
This little piggy went to market,
you little piggy stayed home,
we little piggys like roast beef,
us little piggys [...]
mini socks
Posted in handmade, knitting, socks, tagged doll, hiking, Knitpicks, knitting, mist, palette, socks on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mini doll hiking socks for a friends doll that she is making for a gift. The doll has a backpack and sleeping bag too so she is prepared for the outdoors. The socks took a little bit of shaping after the heal since the doll has such exquisitely pointed toes, but it seemed to work [...]
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