Good for Us, Good for Gaia

Did I ever tell you how much I love where my house is located?  Because I do!  Yes, we live in suburbia.  Despite that, we have almost 3/4 of an acre of land and are within walking distance of our grocery store, GoodWill, several other shops, and the YMCA to which we are members.  And [...]

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A Lady in the Making

It’s been a long time coming.  My February Lady Sweater is almost complete (and there have been over 3700 of these made, according to /in the making according to Ravelry!).  The knitting is done and it had a bath and was blocked to open up the lace-loveliness  and lengthen the body from its pre-blocking cropped [...]

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There’s Something About a Letter

Handwritten, showing the life behind the words more than an email does.  It may seem old-fashioned, but I still love received (and sending!) letters via the post.
What brought on this bit of nostalgia?  A bedtime letter.  I have to start by saying that I almost dread bedtime in our house, at least for L3.  L4 [...]

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The Clinging Garden

That’s my spur of the moment name for the skirt I made and then wore to work yesterday.  I love the fabric and the cut and will ignore the wonky zipper issues because I can cover them up.  I did a rolled hem with the serger because I really like the length of the skirt [...]

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I Am Not A Waif

That would be the sum result of me and Stylish Dresses this week.  I finally was able to dig into the Japanese pattern book I bought way back when.  I still love the patterns in the book.  I cannot, however, pull off the waif look of the Asian women (or are they girls?!?) in the [...]

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My Boy’s Bleeding Heart

I’ve seen it in the past, but wasn’t sure just how sincere he was, or if he was trying to get a reaction/be dramatic.  For example, when driving past the turkey farm near our home, I mentioned how when we were eating our Tofurkey for Thanksgiving others would be eating the turkeys.  L3 exclaimed, “Mama!  [...]

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Signs of the Season: Indoor Scramble

It’s inevitable.  As we spend more time indoors, and in the same room or two, we find the scenery becoming a bit stagnant.  There’s usually a bit of a furniture shuffle for getting the tree into and out of our living space.  Then, after all of the holiday blitz we look around and feel a [...]

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The Days Ahead

This evening as I was reading No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin**, I was struck by the following that Eleanor Roosevelt said during a speech the day after Hitler’s armies invaded Holland, Luxembourg, Belgium, and France.  She was speaking to boys at a prep-school in Connecticut and said to them:
How to preserve the freedoms [...]

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We Did It Again

Hmmm, remember this post?  It must be something about this time of year, because our family has grown again.

We’ve been talking about it on and off since October.  We’re suckers, what can I say?  Even though we said, “we’re not getting another cat again for awhile,” when Tortellini died in September, it wasn’t easy.  She’d [...]

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First and Last

Projects, that is.  Let’s look at the last one, first, shall we?

Pattern: Spring Forward by Linda Welch
Yarn: Araucania Ranco Solid
This was the first time I used this yarn.  It was lovely, plenty of yardage, and the various colorways it came in were gorgeous.  I see socks for me out of it, someday.
Needles: US 1s,the smaller [...]

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