So, Sunday morning. And the last day of 2006. I am passing up an invitation to a party; Mark and I are going clam digging instead. I can taste the bouillabaisse already ( Read more... )

Well, this week I blazed on wrapping up some of my unfinished business. As I was saying in an earlier post, I am a bit overdue on some swappy stuff. I made a big fat list, hung it on my wall, and am crossing items off as they go out.

I did finish a scarf for my pal Heidie.


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The other day, Lucimama posted this link over on Glitter.
A man sides his house in crushed aluminum cans.

I have this great book by Seymour Rosen, In Celebration of Ourselves, (California Living Books 1979), that is chock full of environments created by folk artists, like Grandma Prisby's Bottle Village, Dr. Tinkerpaw's Nitt Witt Ridge, Romano Gabriel ( Read more... )

I have a new-to-me car and vacuum.


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Well, in honor of the fact that today I graduated from cooking on a two-burner propane camp stove (and that was a step up from the three-legged one burner I used for years!) to a full-on rigged-for-propane JennAir range that Mark scored for cheap recently (alright, so the oven doesn't work yet and neither does one of the burners, but hey), I bring ( Read more... )

good things:

*I love my major appliances! My washer and drier. I do not take them for granted.

*I sold a piece of artwork. The first ever sold as Art!
( this one here )

Today my mind was blown by a passel of antique Scandinavian jewelry and a gorgeous handdyed and handwoven old blanket and an incredible conversation with the seller of those items. A rather serendipitous meeting from my perspective. I learned many things today, not the least of which is how to fasten a penannular broochhere are some things I ( Read more... )