I finished this lion yesterday afternoon. I got really into the methodical process of sewing the mane onto his head. And tying each french knot for the whiskers. He will be part of the group I send to gallery hanahou later this year. I love making the wool felt animals. Seeing them standing on my…
Archives for September 2010
make a paper mache etrog for Sukkot!
Tonight the Jewish holiday of Sukkot begins. This is the sixth year that we have built a Sukkah on our patio. We got a new Sukkah-building kit this year from here. The boards of our old model had become warped and it was always rather fussy to put together. The new one is very easy,…
pink kitty: a journey
The day we brought Stella home from the hospital, in late April of 2006, my mother-in-law gave her a pink kitty stuffed animal. We carefully put it beside her in her bassinet. As you can see, at that time kitty was bigger than she was. Kitty stayed in the bassinet and then moved to Stella's…
it’s been crazy
This week has been really crazy. Over the weekend I developed a seriously itchy rash all over my pregnant belly and my back. It turned out to be PUPPP. I have never been so itchy in my life and it seemed according to the dermatologist that I would have the rash until delivery, which is…
L’shana tova!
Happy New Year to you and yours!
Labor Day weekend
We spent the long weekend in Old Town Alexandria, VA, for my sister’s wedding. The weather was incredibly good. The morning of the wedding we had some free time and headed over to Arlington National Cemetery to visit some presidential grave sites. Roxanne was very excited to find William Howard Taft. She remarked that…
and the winner is…
ikabags and Linda! Random number generator has chosen you as the winners of La Pomme's beautiful mini apples! Congratulations! I will let Apol know and she will mail them out to you. Enjoy! My sister, Rachel, is getting married on Monday in Old Town Alexandria, VA. Today we are packing our fancy clothes and getting…
a beautiful fall collection by La Pomme (and a giveaway!)
For several years I have admired the beautiful work of Apol Lejano, a French designer and mom who blogs at La Pomme. Her work combines vintage materials with a modern edge and is a pleasure to look at. Plus, she likes birds, so we have an immediate affinity. Apol and I have become blog friends…
two accomplishments
Today is Roxanne's first day of First Grade! New shoes, new dress, hair trimmed and ready to go. And I am off to the post office to overnight the author's proof of The Artful Bird back to Interweave. It arrived on Saturday, which gave me four days to edit a 160 page manuscript. I'm so…