Just about 3 weeks ago, I received a present from a very nice guy. I’ve now had some time to try it out, and I have to say, it’s sew very sweet. It’s a brand new computerized sewing machine, the Brother XR9000. Up until now, I’ve been working on the machine I got 20 or […]
A package from Mimi came for Zia in the mail…full of bright feathers and jungle stickers! After the first breathless moments of random sticking and unsticking, we decided to make a hat. Then we took it down to the creek we’ve been playing in every day. Our creek is just over a mile from our house. It has mossy […]
I’ye been wanting to refinish an older rocking horse for Zia for a while now. The last time we were at Papa and Mimi’s house in NY, I mentioned it to them. The next day, we were out shopping with Mimi, and came home to an awesome surprise… Papa had been out shoeing horses as usual, […]
The creative flow is strange, isn’t it? I often find myself so utterly swept up in a new project that I seem to lose track of everything else in the headlong rush of the thing. One finished piece provokes another, and it seems that just as I catch my breath I’m diving in again! Of […]
Do you love it as much as I do? Because I love love love it! It feels warm, happy, bright, clean, intimate, and inspiring. It’s just what I wanted. You thought it was going to be BLUE, you say? Well, so did I. But I think I’ll save blue for another room, another day. There’s nothing […]
