winter carrots

winter carrots
Originally uploaded by pizza on earth

It has been a crazy weather year, so warm even through Christmas. The ground isn't even frozen, so it was easy enough to dig out these crisp little carrots.

Words of the Day

confection

enlightenment

grotesque

lexicon

Family Memorial July 26, 2011

My family had a memorial for my parents, who both died last year. It was held at my grandma's house in Orange, MA. How strange to be there without them. They had both been cremated, so the day after the memorial, we went to the cemetary for the burial. Got there, no hole. How could the cemetary people forget something like that? Actually, I think my dad would have found it pretty funny. So while we are waiting for a time when my siblings and I can reschedule the burial, my parents are biding their time on the mantel. They look pretty swell in the boxes I made, with the male and female cardinals facing each other. I imagine them being happy together.

Words of the Day

chaffered

ecclectic

hard-boiled

penchant

Little book with Champagne tops.

A funny little tunnel book. It took me way too much time becausee I fussed over everything too much. I am determined to be more spontaneous.

This book started as a christmas present for my niece's daughter. I thought I could finish it in a few hours, since it is only a few pages, but indeed it took forever. It was a lot of fun to make a soft book, and I enjoyed the freeform sewing, although my vintage machine circa 1973 gave me some technical challenges. I would do several things differently next time, including making sure the images matched up at the center of the pages.
I still need to put in a credit for the words by George Harrison. It has given me and my husband quite a chuckle during these trying dark days, when I announce that I need to read my book.
This might be the first installment of my "Songs for Spontaneous Singing" series.

For Christmas I made Jay a small book about his collection of Marimekko shirts. He has 10 of them, all different color combinations. I painted the fabric covers to look like the hand screened shirt fabric.

The inside pages are a double accordian with reversed cutouts. The images are hand drawn and painted with gouache. I need to make a slipcase for it, and then I will enter it into a show on miniature books. It is slightly too large, being 5 1/4" high, a little above the 5" speicifications, but I hope it will slip by.

This was a fun project- a knitted chain link necklace. Now this has potential, and is super easy to make! Thanks to antelopebaby for the pattern.