My finger is healing up nicely. That’s one perk to taking your vitamins and drinking lots of water I suppose. The downside to the healing is that I can no longer play the “poor pitiful me, lookie at what I did to my finger” card. There are always ups and downs to every situation. I’ve […]

Oh Hai, Knife, you’re sharp… or reasons why you should sharpen your kitchen knives.

I cut my finger open tonight. YES. Open. I apparently have a kitchen knife that won’t cut through the peel of a lime but will do a good job of slicing straight through my finger nail and a good 1/8 of an inch into my finger. Nice picture I’ve painted for you… eh? I’d like […]

It’s not that I’ve been ignoring my blog… it’s just that I’ve been busy. Oh, and my screen on my laptop went out a few nights ago (which makes it hard to blog regularily). I’ve got a new screen coming and once I have time to sit down for an hour and replace the old […]

Creating

After a weekend of restlessness, I finally found something to do today. I made a necklace. I haven’t sat behind my beading table as much as I used to. Not sure why. It’s tedious? Maybe. It wrecks my fingers? Usually. I’ve lost my jewelry mojo? Probably. I could be any number of things, but today […]

And one more…

Okay, I’m completely stuck on finding amazing covers of “Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters” now. I ran across this one today: Ignore the crazy footage (you know how everyone on YouTube thinks they are music video producers these days) and just listen to the lovely. Dianna – I posted this one for you! Okay, not […]

And so they begin

It’s been months since I’ve woke up from tornado nightmares during the night. In fact, it’s safe to say that it’s been since before my mom passed away. The dreams I used to have weren’t scary, just stressful, very very stressful. I wake from them feeling lost, without a safe place to hide, and disoriented. […]

See this???

I knit it. With my own two hands (well, and 2 different sizes of knitting needles and some yarn). I can’t remember a time I’ve been more proud of something I knit. This took time, it took learning techniques I hadn’t used before, and it took frustration. Lots of frustration. It’s not perfect, I messed […]

Gardening… at last

I finally found myself squishing dirt between my hands, carefully moving earthworms out of the way of my little shovel, and digging holes today. I took some time, and the opportunity to work with damp earth, today and worked on my herb garden. When I moved here, I brought peppermint, lemon balm and spearmint with […]

A Day Spent Indoors

The view from my window today was a wet one. It rained most of the day only letting up long enough for me to steal away to grab some groceries. I had planned to work on my back patio to get it ready for spring and summer cookouts, but instead I sat on the couch […]

The Chair Finds a Home

The antique chair and quilts from a few posts ago found a home in my bedroom. They look perfect next to my antique dresser. However, now that I’ve cleaned and organized my bedroom to make room for the chair, I can’t ignore how terrible those floors are. If I owned this house, the floors in […]