- For lunch, J is making a tajine.  We don't have pre-made ras el hanout, so I mixed some myself from my well-stocked spice cabinet.  I could smell the spices as I crushed them in the mortar.  :D My sense of taste is also slowly coming back, and I hope I will be able to enjoy the tajine in more than just an olfactory way.  Sprout and I made a ( Read more... )

With only two days left in the month, I figured it was time I checked in with Artober and my doings so related.

I drew steadily until the 19th when birthday preparations and shingle flare-ups dictated that I reduce all "non-vital" tasks to a minimum.

When I started to feel better and the birthdays were past, the desire to do the challenge just ( Read more... )

So I ripped out all my rows and started over with a shorter foundation stitch.

When friends saw me starting it a few weeks ago, they asked how long the project would take.  "It depends," was my answer.  :P

This is taking longer than I wanted because of the inertia and lethargy that invaded me at having to start over, not to mention the crazy busy ( Read more... )

sds So,  like I said, I started the cardigan Tuesday night.  The starting foundation stitches gave me a pretty long chain, but knowing projects "shrink" as you add rows, I kept going with it.
And going. 
I am now pretty convinced that the cardigan is going to be too big.  I now have the oh-so-annoying dilemma of frogging it and starting over or just ( Read more... )

Forgive the weird photo, but this a snapshot of the front of our building, taken by leaning over the balcony railing--in the rain--without letting my phone plummet 5 stories to the ground....


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As trite and cliché as it may sound, clouds do have silver their silver linings ( Read more... )

Or shall we just call it, "The State of Things." Forgive me, LJ, for it has been awhile since my last post ( Read more... )

I forgot to take pictures of this week's creative endeavors,* but I remembered to take one of Ti'Loup's quilt. (fresh out of the washing machine; should have ironed it for the photo. :P )  And because frigg made me laugh with a comment the other day to the effect of "In my mind, your craft room is a pristine space," you also get a bonus of the reality ( Read more... )

I think I'll have time for just one more project before Coquille is born (we're 37wk3d), so I've chosen to do a summer quilt. A friend is borrowing my sewing machine, but she brought it over yesterday so that I could sew my layers together ( Read more... )

We were at a family retreat this weekend, and I didn't feel like posting when we got home yesterday.

My project this week was crocheting a lamb for a friend's newborn. I used the same pattern as for Coquille's lamb, but from the below photos, you can see how differently they turned out in terms of size and color and overall personality.* Coquille' ( Read more... )