Growing forward
Happy New Year to everyone. Here’s to pushing through the frozen times and remembering to bloom anyway.
Category: dreaming out loud
Happy New Year!
Ok, so I’m late. It’s just so I can be sure that you hear my New Year’s greetings over everyone else’s. I’ve got a stack of posts to write to share the last minute creating from December. My sewing corner is a big pile of stuff since I was making things (and coming up with more ideas for more things) and then abruptly stopped to focus on actual Christmas prep. I always feel that my version of Christmas dinner is a lot less complicated than the traditional turkey feast, but somehow I still spend two days before Christmas in the …
Long-handed
The prompts answered above are: 1. Name 2. Blog address 3. Write: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” 4. Favorite quote. 5. Favorite song (of the moment). 6. Favorite band/singer (of the moment). 7. Write anything you want. 8. Tag 3-5 bloggers. I have always had romantic notions of handwriting. I like antiqued paper. I’ve tried to write with a feather (although not recently). I’ve played with calligraphy (again, not recently). And I love the idea of long, “meaty” letters, the kind that I imagine far-flung family members or friends wrote to each other before we had …
Over the Weekend
Not so long ago, I didn’t see a whole lot of difference between weekdays and weekends. Both seemed equally frantic with Responsibilities and Things to Do. These days, we’re trying to more consciously observe the downtime. Or the uptime, as the case may be. This is one of the challenges with working from home, I guess. The office is right there, and it’s so easy to stop at the computer “for a moment” to just take care of “one thing.” Though, to be honest with myself, it’s not only that, since I tend to get equally distracted and panicked by …
If I were a rich girl…
I was able to spend yesterday afternoon at a “Sewing Celebration” hosted by Bernina Northwest. Oh boy, do I wish I had a disposable $10K! Part party, part class, this was a chance for the curious to test drive the Bernina 830. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if this sewing machine could also knit or scramble eggs; we used decorative stitches, did some machine embroidery, and came home with something the instructor called a “jewelery clutch” (Heaven knows what I’ll do with it, not really be the jewelery or the clutch type). The machine has a touch screen, it …
A Mixed Bag
New Year’s Day was lovely – if colder than I’d really like – and filled with assorted prep work for some assorted projects. Then Caitlyn decided that she’d really like to start the year with a stomach flu, so my Day 2 of 2011 has been spent sitting with a feverish girl who begs for water after throwing up all the nothing that’s left in her tummy. Two days old and already the year is reminding me: Balance, Pace Yourself, You Are Not Always in Control. I don’t generally make Resolutions for a New Year. While the change in the …