Archive for the ‘Me’ Category

goodbye, goats

Posted on February 18th, 2017 by mountain girl  |  3 Comments »

Today we sent our three little goats off to a new home. After filling our lives with two years of pure goatiness, we gave them to a family with 6 acres of green pastures, two other little goats, and a couple of human kids. We really wished we could keep them, but we are going […]



around here in the wild woods

Posted on February 3rd, 2017 by mountain girl  |  3 Comments »

David is gone for a week and a half, first to Raleigh for three days, then Augusta. He’s getting a new place prepared for the Masters golf tournament in April…I think. I don’t ask too many questions because there are enough things in life I don’t quite comprehend–without throwing networks, switches and routers into the […]



handmade christmas

Posted on December 26th, 2016 by mountain girl  |  6 Comments »

Here’s a compilation of the exciting presents we’ve been making over the past two weeks. We opened them Christmas morning (and a few on Christmas Eve). Hope you enjoy them!! These little beanie animals are made from a sewing pattern I got from this girl who makes and sells patterns on Etsy. The instructions were […]



holiday art fairs

Posted on December 23rd, 2016 by mountain girl  |  3 Comments »

The art fairs I worked during the first two weeks of December are old news by now, but I never posted the pics, so here they are, at last! Zia and I did the Holiday Mountain Market in Nederland, then whipped up several dozen tiny animals and figurines and went to the Gilpin Winter Arts […]



a dozen years

Posted on December 1st, 2016 by mountain girl  |  1 Comment »

Here we are, a dozen years down the road. A little older, a little wiser, a little better at loving each other. Through all the highs and lows, we’ve made our way here, hand in hand. I want to say thank you to that man in the black hat, for these twelve years of my […]