Tuesday
Nov112008
a peek.
shedding maple, seattle, 11.8.08
i am so very sleepy after so much goodness in my world during the last four days.and even though i (keep trying to insist that i ) am not officially doing this (except for the part where i just went and said i will), i just can't seem to go to bed without stopping by this little corner of my world and saying hello.
but today, i would really love it if you would do the talking...
so, what's going on in your world?
tell me something...anything...maybe a new favorite book or something you want to let go or something that has made you laugh out loud or what you had for dinner...
please,
give me a peek inside your world...
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Reader Comments (22)
a favorite book - I just finished "The Olive Farm" which was lovely and languid and took me away from life each evening before bed. I need to let go of wanting a friend to learn to be more open with me - it will never happen and I need to love him where he is. For dinner, I roasted a gorgeous chicken, to show the man I live with he is loved and appreciated. Doing that lifted me on a gray day when school threatened to drag me under. I love how kindness can do that.
I am missing you. xo
I'm battling with my flu-like symptoms, drinking green tea with honey, and dreaming of the tropical island of my childhood. Currently reading Nick Flynn's "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City", a beautiful memoir with prose that will make your heart ache, in a good way.
Thank you for asking.
i am stopping by your blog and thinking i always like it.
:)
I am up right now, way past my bedtime, my five month old won't sleep. Nothing is wrong with him, he is just as awake as can be, crawling around the floor. I'm so tired, so exhausted, and yet... I am still so grateful for this time I have with him. He is worth every moment.
Got to go, he is making his way towards the computer power cord... Favorite book? I have so many... I love "A Long Way Gone" though, incredibly moving.
I just taught myself how to knit with double pointed needles and made a pair of hand warmers. Yipee! Chili Colorado for dinner and now listen to the rain over the sound of my 18 year old cat snoring. Bliss. Have a good week.
mmm....trying to stay warm.
creative day yesterday in the
studio with a friend. i have
new "girl" necklaces i am working
on! i so love them. and getting ready for our weekend trip to bachelor gulch, co.
i miss you girlie.
I am eating an egg and cheese bagel sandwich from Bruegger's, and it's good except for the egg is dried out. In other news, I have Evanescnece's Bring Me to Life stuck in my head, I'm about to try and quickly get caught up on email, then start in on some editing of Robert's book, then I'm happy to say I'm off to spend another inspiring day with Annie Lockhart. Have you ears been burning?
xoxo
I am at work...shhhh...drinking my hazelnut coffee trying to wake up. Stayed up way too late last night cutting fabric for xmas presents. Wishing I had gone to bed just a little sooner.
It's the next day for me and I'm catching up with my favorite blogs.
Induring PMS symptoms and trying to "be cool" with people as the evil twin who resides in me attempts to surface and rip everyone apart.
Need to get ATC's in the works for a group exchange but am still too overwhelmed with Joy with the Obama election I can't concentrate.
Need a hot cup of strong coffee before processing payroll.
Take care,
I did my first craft show this past weekend. I make jewelry and cards. I did pretty well for my first time out. I am shy so having to talk to people I didn't know, and lots of them, was a bit hard but I stepped out of my comfort zone and I flew! Your blog and Kelly Rae's were very inspiring for me to even make this move and do the show.
It is really incredible how I am drawn to your words every day. I am in love with your words....your photography.....your insight into the feelings that belong to all of us as sisters, daughters, friends. Thank you for who you are. Marie
dear one,
today is wednesday - overcast, chilly, looking like rain for the afternoon. my big sister ellen and i (and aspen, judging from how wild he went with rugs and bedcovers yesterday while we were gone) are going to drive back over balsam mountain to - get this - the K Mart in Waynesville, because said big sister lovesssss k mart for their martha things, and there isn't one in montgomery, alabama. i am wearing my realllly cute new brown leather teva boots (some of which she also bought, yesterday) and black leggings, a mini denim skirt (yep, even on this butt) and an oversized salmon colored bluefish sweatshirt. i feel cute, for once. last night i finished reading Abide With Me, a book mama passed along to me, and today at some point (most likely late tonight on the dear inflatable bed) will begin another - there is a stack calling. we ate take out for thai last night, and drank some wine and finished watching 3:10 to Yuma (tender, in so many parts). we had planned to stay home today in our pajamas and make jewelry here in the living room by the fire and windows, on a card table - but as i said, k mart is a'calling. tomorrow? i have bundles of silk ribbon begging to be dyed for jewelry. and i think we'll have some walnut throwing sessions.
thinking of you, always - xoxo
right now: sipping on homemade cabbage soup (a true sign winter is upon us here)... witnessing how much fun a toddler can have with a yoga mat (simple pleasures)... trying to decide whether to spend the afternoon working on finances or making art. hmm, the battle between what i should do and what i want to do...
Right now: drinking the dregs of my 2nd cup of coffee, thinking I should really get back to work even as I check out yet another of my favorite blogs.... I've been sewing art doll samples for the class I'm going to teach on Saturday morning. And I've been promising myself that I'm not going to leave all my class prep until the last minute ever, ever again! ;-)
Good morning Liz! Let's see. . . I'm still wiping away the tears from watching the Keith Olberman piece on the gay marriage issue (it's on Leighanna Light's blog http://lklight.blogspot.com/). I'm getting up the oomph to go to looked at recycled glass tile for my shower redo. I'm hoping my puncture wound from kitten teeth doesn't get infected (she mistook my index finger for chow as I was spooning it into her dish). I'm wondering what to post on my blog today. And wondering if I'll ever know the joy of falling in love again.
I am reading a great book, Three Cups of Tea. It is so much different than I expected that it would be. Beyond that, I am dreaming of crafty afternoons, but in reality I should be working. Conflicted day!
I'm meant to be tidying and sorting through old papers but I've given that up and come here to read and made some tea! M uch more enjoyable!
i'm listening to my girl read me "pumpkin soup", while making dinner and prepping to go to work tonight.
today instead of doing what i was supposed to be doing, i watched last week's gray's anatomy and cried my eyes out. it was cleansing. xo
Ok so a peek into my world would find me sitting at my sewing machine working a a patch/work~hodge/podge quilt done in fall colours, rusts, browns, oranges, golds, greens, dark burgandies. Just a quilt to use up some of my scraps that have piled up over time. My baby sister loves this type of quilt and so I'm planning on gifting it to her, just because.
My mother has retired and is 77 and wanted something to do so I gave her a singer I had and a large amount of stash and so I've also been teaching her how to make quilts, going over and getting her started on a step and then going back the next day to get her started on the next step. This is a fun process and I'm totally enjoying this time spent with my mom.
I've also been sewing some fat quarter dresses to use of some of my stash and some crayon rolls and I've just gotten the pattern to make crayon aprons for some of the little princesses in our world.
And then in the late afternoon I spend a hour or so checking in on my blog world to see what the rest of the creative world is about. Thanks for being a part of this hour in my life.
Blessings,
Sheila
How about if I share something I need to let go - stress at work. (we have the auditors visiting us) All I want to do is come home and sew! (especially gifts and things for our house like tablerunners and potholders) Your blog has helped me so much in keeping perspective, and remembering to breath. Thank you for that.
...I've been reading/devouring every single succulent book by SARK (except for the newest one)...and catching up on reading my favorite blogs tonight...