mary mary

The girls and I spent yesterday with my friend Mary of mothdesigns. Mary’s awesome. If I had to come up with a synonym for awesome besides fantastic and inspiring and amazing and zero cool, it would be Mary. (Zero cool? Where did I come up with that one?) Anyway, it [...]

brr.

OK so it’s not all that cold out, but I’m a wuss.  So’s Willow.  And that’s a turkey’s print, not a velociraptor’s.  I hope anyway.

eo vs. fo; which is really better?

I’m constantly faced with this debate. Actually it’s less debate, more pre-conceived decision on the customer’s part. It’s perfectly normal, we’ve all been taught as of late to assume that natural is always better than synthetic. So of course we’d always assume that essential oils, derived directly from the natural object in [...]

i hate insteps.

Remember those badass socks I was knitting?  Well, I’m knitting them again.  We have an on again off again relationship.  One’s done, and that’s usually where I stop.  But this time, I’m determined to have two.  I think it’s because of the reindeer.  I combined two patterns for this, Nancy Bush’s Eesti Trail Hiking Socks [...]

a day of peace

I hope all of you are enjoying a peaceful holiday season, considering these tough times and today’s horrible events.  I feel more than a little out of line posting pictures of presents and healthy children while so many are right now trying to understand the loss of their little ones in Palestine.   I wish my [...]