This year I bought one of the Paper Source DIY calendars. I’m a fan of their tagline: ‘Do Something Creative Every Day.’ Or every month, as the case is here.
I adapted some tangles from Yoga for Your Brain – a Zentangle Workout [...]
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I was out of sorts last week, for unreasonable reasons. To sort out this out of sorts state I wanted to make something. Something tangible. But for some (again) unreasonable reason, I felt it had to be a little brainless and completely unrelated to the projects that feel as though [...] progress – stitch by stitch I have some amazingly prolific friends who post newly completed creations to their blogs just about every week. Often multiple times per week. Me? I have to content myself with posting progress on my work. Luckily for me, I get a kick out of the progress almost as much [...] Our family Thanksgiving this year was a quiet one. Only 17 people gathered round my grandparents’ extended table. With more adults than children! As a benchmark, consider that on Sunday the first four pews at church held something like 25 members of my family. We are used to upwards of 50 folks for most year’s [...] This post is mainly for my mother – who has been asking for it: I finally had some time at home during daylight hours to photograph a little of the work my sister and I did during our marathon work weekend. A few weeks ago a friend of mine asked me how I would classify [...] Ok, so impulse might be a very very strong word. The projects were a long time in coming. Depending on how you measure it – as long as over 25 years in coming. But most of it did feel creative. And it was the weekend. Sister number 1 (also known as the blond sister) and [...] I haven’t done much drawing or painting lately. When I’m home with available time, I’ve been cleaning and organizing and purging. It’s a much larger job than it ought to be. A couple of weekends ago I spent much of Friday night and Saturday doing my bedroom closet. Is it crazy that I get as [...] Any non-vegetarian home cook worth her salt cellar knows that real homemade chicken stock is the secret magic ingredient of her kitchen. Intellectually, anyway. So on the rare days I had a few hours and a chicken carcass to spare, I would dutifully pull together a stock. Afterward I would guard it jealously. Because real [...] crossweave necklace with pendant I have always wanted to try my hand at a little jewelry-making and finally did it. This is the first project in a book called Stitching Beaded Jewelry. It was fun, fairly easy to figure out, and a little addicting. I have a lot of beads now to play with. [...] |
 
Becky's bookshelf: read
I was in a bookstore the other day hunting for something to read on writing when I got distracted by the books on reading. I picked this one up, knowing nothing about Nick Hornby beyond his connection to About a Boy. My impressions in no...
I grew up loving to read and hope to pass that on so every year I get books for my nieces and nephews for Christmas. There are twenty of them and as they're getting older I can no longer give only books I've read so each year there are o...
 
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