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Aloha!

Nancy — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:49:51 +0000

From penguins to sea turtles! Moondoggie has whisked me away to paradise for a prebaby trip, and all I brought was my iphone and fun novels (no craft projects! Gasp). So it will be quiet around here until I get home again! Not that i think you guys sit around wondering why I’m not posting, but just in case, I thought I’d pop in. This is actually my very first totally mobile blog post, so I hope it looks ok.

Mahalo for your lovely comments on my last post! Each one made me smile.

Gah!

Nancy — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:06:33 +0000

I know, it has been about a million years in blog-time. After moving in and the unpacking frenzy (that pile of boxes is a lot smaller now, if not totally gone), I hopped on a plane east to visit my family for two weeks of relaxation by the sea. My mother is my great inspiration in craft, and she taught me how to rewire a lamp (we added a three-way switch!) and make an ice cream cake from scratch (not the ice cream part, but the crust and the layers of different flavors etc). I also took a ton of pictures in her garden, and on walks around town. If you’d like to take a little virtual walk through them, click on the photo below to go to my Flickr photo set of the trip!

Now I’m home, and as of yesterday have lovely wireless all over the house. I have so many new crafty ideas, and even a tutorial or two up my sleeve for you. So if you’re still around, thank you for not abandoning me, and stay tuned!

Hello! And a Bloggy Recipe Exchange

Nancy — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:35:03 +0000

Such fun e-mail recipe exchanges are going around, and I love them. However, having, ahem, less than 20 friends, I could really only do it once without bothering everyone I know with like 5 recipe exchanges. So I wondered if you lovely bloggers and readers out there might like to participate in a virtual recipe exchange. Here’s the scoop:
1. Pick your current favorite recipe.
2. Post it, or a link to it, on your blog by next Thursday.
3. Comment here with a link to the post where your recipe lives.
4. Voila, we all get new recipes and perhaps some new readers too!
5. As a special added bonus, I will put all of your names into a hat next Thursday night (Pacific) and pick one, then send that person a handmade treat! So be sure that the e-mail address you include with your comment can reach you so I can find out where to send your gifty.
*If you don’t have a blog or feel like it fits in with your blog to post a recipe, feel free to just post the recipe or a link to the recipe in the comments here.

Yay! I hope you all join me. I’ll be trying out some new recipes this week (it is cold here and I’m craving soup, so I have little bookmarks on every soup recipe in my arsenal), so I’ll play too.

In other news:
*I’m super excited about Marta’s Back2School Swap! I love school supplies now I have an excuse to browse the more fun aisles of Office Depot (though of course I’ll also be making at least one of my swap contributions! it will be hard to pick just 3 items).
*There was an extremely low tide at the beach this weekend that revealed all kinds of amazing things at the tideline

*The mystery fruit tree outside our house at the beach has revealed itself as a plum!

Sadly all of the fruit is totally out of reach, and most of it seems to be split while still on the branch. But at least the birds are happy.
*Packing up my craft area is making me a little bit batty. I’m thinking of starting a few small, portable embroidery or crochet projects so I don’t suffer from really awful craft withdrawl! The upside is that I will very likely have little bags of scraps and crafty things I do not want to pack when it comes down to the wire– if this is so, I’ll give you all a chance to claim them once the deed is done!

Tiny Craft

Nancy — Fri, 18 May 2007 16:42:30 +0000

wee sand dollar found at the beach + e-6000 + round magnet=awesome

Longer posts and fun crafty pictures after Maker Faire, I promise!

She Sells Sea Shells

Nancy — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:47:57 +0000

After a splendid blowout Friday evening at Boulette’s Larder (want to know who the original Boulette is? Click here.) we spent the weekend here

doing mostly this

photos courtesy of Moondoggie
Then we came home and I sat on our little deck admiring our little garden, wearing a big hat, drinking lemon water and reading Alexander McCall Smith, whose writing I adore so much that I think I might enjoy his shopping lists and tax returns.

The weekend was not totally without craft, as I received my much-anticipated copy of The Apron Book from the lovely lights at Adorn magazine(oh! it deserves a post all its own), and started in on drying two huge bunches of mint cut from the wildly overgrown “garden” at the beach. I have some fantasies about making my own vintageof mint tea, but we’ll see…