Summer is here. It's reached that sad time of year when all of the plants start looking brown, the AC runs night and day, and I have to find new ways of keeping an active child happy without being able to spend much time outside. Upsides? Summer CSA, less laundry, DH isn't teaching classes so his schedule is more flexible.

Ansel has finally reached ( Read more... )

Last weekend I finally got my sewing area organized, so I can now just go in there and do some work if the inspiration strikes. I haven't been that ambitious just yet. Most days I'm so tired and extended naps are really the favored activity. This weekend I feel less inclined to sleep and more inclined to get things done, but there is enough to do ( Read more... )

My life is all about four activities lately:
Getting food in my stomach, keeping it there (I'm counting this as one activity).
Staying hydrated.
Going to work and staying there for the work day even though I feel poorly.
Sleep, irresistible sleep!

Here are a couple of highlights from the past month or so:

Eating solid food has been a real challenge ( Read more... )

This bag was requested by one of my friends here on LJ who already owns several of my bags. The outer corduroy was left over from another bag she had ordered from me a while back, and we picked out the lining fabric together from Harmony Art's organic cotton prints.


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( Pictures of Orange Scalloped Pouch #2 )

I absolutely love this idea from Cut Out + Keep for creating a catalog of one's fabric stash. Keeping fabric organized has been a challenge for me because if I have it folded and stored I forget what I have. Then I have to unfold a piece to figure out how much I still have of a given fabric. By the time I'm done exploring, everything is all a mess ( Read more... )

Last year, my stepmom went to Egypt and I requested that she bring back some fabric for me. I imagined she'd be strolling through bazaars with lots of fabrics piled up all around, but she actually ended up having a pretty hard time finding fabric. She came across a large tablecloth with a hieroglyphic print, and brought that back for me to use in ( Read more... )

I'm tempted to say that I've inadvertently pulled a home economics version of a Marcel Duchamp. By which I am referring to his having at one time purportedly given up making art for playing chess. But even this ridiculous assertion makes me concerned that I'm risking conceit through the comparison to some famous guy. Please, I'm obviously not that ( Read more... )

Jackson is turning one year old at the end of this month. Impossible ( Read more... )