Where is my Brother?

I get really great pleasure from pinning scraps together and then hand sewing them.  starting small, adding on till it gets bigger and then doing it again. and again. and again.
it’s tactile.  it’s meditative.  it’s productive.
I try not to trim the scraps, instead I choose the piece that fits…..going through each piece, trying it on [...]

SPRING VACATION UPDATE

the sixth grader graduated

 in a borrowed suit
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the 10 year old played in a piano recital

she is wearing her new retainer/braces
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I am sitting on my sofa
sewing scraps together
waiting patiently for the day
they all go back to school.
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we are all in our husband’s underwear
(I am the big one)
doing a skit from a popular t.v. comedy [...]

Ornamental plum blossoms.

pink is blooming all over the neighborhood…. throughout the year, green or bare trees are saving up for bursts of color to pop out where you least expect them!!!!!
first comes plum, followed by peach and then cherry.
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HEY LOOK, IT’S MY GARDEN!!!!

with plenty of room for lots of tomatoes and basil.
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DID YOU THINK I FORGOT [...]

while caressing searching through my yarn stash for one more little bit of red to finish my raspberry beret I came upon a blanket that I started Y-E-A-R-S ago…… with some linen I had inherited, and I can live with the colors…. I just wasn’t enjoying the knitting on several dpns all lined up ….so I [...]