It’s spring break here, and for me that means that my children and my husband are both home for an entire week. That’s a really good thing for my garden, but first, unfinished business! Last summer we received from a Freecycler, a porch swing. The fabric was the worse for wear, but the frame was […]
Read more "It’s that time again…"In my last post, I left you wondering what had happened to the other 2 and a quarter pounds of my Finn fleece. Admit it, you’ve been worrying about it all week. So here is how it breaks down. 12 ounces of the fleece, I didn’t even bother to wash. The fleece had not been […]
Read more "Never felt this way before"My birthday was last month, and rather than sock the money I received away to justify all the little extra craft purchases I make, I decided to splurge on a somewhat larger toy. Enter the Drum Carder. A Brother Drum Carder to be precise. What is a drum carder? It is a mechanism for preparing […]
Read more "Batting a Thousand"Here are the roses that I worked up. There was one more that was such a complete failure that I couldn’t bear to post it. Unfortunately, scatter-brain that I am, I can’t find the little piece of paper that I took notes on while I was making the patterns, so I can’t post them. 🙁 […]
Read more "Ratta Tat Tat (Part II)"Well, the passion for this week, (or actually two weeks ago, since I am running a few weeks behind in posting) is tatting. Inspired by the pattern for the paper roses that I posted around Valentine’s Day, I decided to try a tatting a rose. Tatting, by the way is a series of very tiny […]
Read more "Ratta Tat Tat (Part I)"I had a really neat idea while watching the plumber dig up my flower bed a few weeks ago. Last year’s chive flowers had dried in their beds to a beautiful, skeletal shape. I gathered them together into a beautiful bundle that was more difficult to photograph than I expected. It’s the sort of thing […]
Read more "Photo Practice"But I think I had less than 24 hours of down time and only had to re-upload the photos. Everything else seems to have loaded fine, and I am really happy with how quick everything in the WordPress Dashboard loads (looks around quickly for some wood to knock on). Very soon I will be uploading […]
Read more "Well, Not Quite Seamless"This year, my unofficial New Year’s resolution was to work on being more regular in the release of my blog posts. I’ve been doing a fairly good job of this, but I am being thwarted by the interface between Word Press and Yahoo! (who hosts my web page) They apparently don’t work well together. Couple […]
Read more "Hosting Trouble"So I’ve been working with the render engine in Carrara, one of the programs I use for 3D design. This is just a little clip that I rendered to test the caustics rendering. (That’s the way the light is shining through the glass).
Read more "Self Promotion"I love Alton Brown. He is my favorite food celebrity. His mix of science and food is irresistible to me, and his quirky humor makes it fun to watch. He also has some very good advice, which my husband usually insists that I follow. No one trick ponies in the kitchen (other than the fire […]
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