Three reasons why I don’t have anything to blog about today: 1. I’ve been out grocery shopping and running other errands yesterday. Somehow it all took a long, long time and it was so busy in all the shops! When I finally got home I was too tired to prepare a post (I usually do…
Category: life lately
Knitting and reading
After that case of startitis my knitting came to a full stop. Not immediately, but that shawl I was trying to make… didn’t work out. Also, I started to doubt if I really wanted to make a bikini coverup. Wouldn’t it be better to make a cardigan with that yarn?And then I started a baby…
Dresses!
One of the things on my (long) list of things I’d like to be able to do, is sewing my own clothes. Now, I don’t have the time nor the patience to look through intricate patterns, adjust sizes and things like that.Or, to be honest, I tried that and failed miserably. Not my kind of…
Right now
Right now I am… :: looking back on a wonderful, relaxing weekend :: gearing up for a busy week :: trying to keep that feeling of “getting there” that I found this weekend :: feeling a bit weird because there are painters setting up their gear right in front of me :: excited because they…
Simple satisfying sewing
I promise more interesting projects will be revealed soon (dresses!). But it was so satisfying to finally get this off my list.And my new sewing set-up made it really, really easy. If you recall my older crafty goals (I stopped posting them because there was no progress at all), I’ve mentioned making a table cloth…
One word, three things
Last month I chickened out of writing about how it’s going with my one word. Because… actually, it wasn’t going too well. And it still isn’t. But maybe I have to accept that too (accept is my word this year). Three things I’ve learned so far: 1. I really, really struggle with accepting the not…
Dreaming of a craft room
Long ago (in a galaxy far, far away – or so it feels), I had a room of my own. To sew, to craft, to write, to store my stuff. It was a gift for my birthday and I loved it so, so much.As our family and our needs changed, I first moved my stuff…
Real furniture
We’ve been living in this house for about half a year now and while there are days when I feel completely at home, it sometimes still feels so new and temporary.Last week I finally realized why: we still hardly have any real furniture! Well, we do have a bed, of course, but no real closets…
Kitchen notes
I really want to be more mindful of what I eat and what I cook. And since traditional journaling doesn’t work for me (never has), but blogging certainly does, I thought I’d take pictures in my kitchen every day (or so) and share kitchen notes regularly. So here’s what’s been going on in my kitchen…
A smile and a tear
Last week I was driving around town to get groceries. It wasn’t my most lucky day, I might add. I wanted to get home as fast as possible because I left a sick husband (flu) there and I wasn’t fully up and running myself.But somehow I kept running into delays. I had to drive to…