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Hammock days are here again

This is what you do when the weather gets nice: You drop the preschooler at Ikea’s Småland (you know, for kids!), revel in the comparitive ease of shopping with just a tiny, containable, mute infant, and buy some patio furniture. Haul both kids and acacia wood seating home, set up shop, and start taking all […]

Kids these days

Don’t let them fool you. Under those grizzly exteriors lie squishy, adorable hearts of molten gold, ready to slather you with drooly kisses or compliment you on your hooded sweatshirt (“You look cute, Mom!”).
It’s just that those loving moments never seem to happen when I have a camera in my hand. When I’m holding the […]

True Up

True Up is my new favorite blog. It’s the beautiful brainchild of Kim of Dioramarama. What it is, is: All Fabric, All The Time.
Girl knows her fabric, and her giddy joy at fabric of all kinds is very nearly palpable. You could practically slice through her joy with a good Olfa rotary cutter, all […]

Sayonara twitter

I think I’m going to quit Twitter. I barely come up with enough time or blodder to post here, I’m not going to waste it on Twittering.
Though if I WERE going to twitter right now it’d be this:
Am reading Bridget Jones’s Diary again (Moby Dick too whaley, gross). Keep thinking: Stop complaining, B. Look at […]

Supafine admin: Upgrading.

After a hard day wrangling two children at the beleaguered Baltimore Zoo, there’s nothing I like better than to unwind by backing up my MySQL databases and upgrading to WordPress 2.5.
If things are wonky on this site, it’s because I’m drunk. No, wait, it’s because I’m elbow-deep in chmod’ing/deleting files/scratching my head/alcohol.
Update: Success. Patting self […]

Hand-knit cowl

I finally finished this hand-knit cowl neckwarmer for my sister that I started ages ago, after seeing this flickr photo. I used Lambs Pride Bulky in ‘seafoam’, purchased at Spinster Yarns and Fibers on Harford Road. If I had it to do over again, I’d cast on probably a third fewer stitches (and make someone […]

Plus, his smiles make the world sing

Reprinted from another, private online forum in which I was ruminating on my youngest:
breakthrough Duh moment over the weekend. We were at the grocery store, shopping, waiting in line. Iain had taken Owen to the truck to pull up and wait for Mac and I, who were waiting to pay for the groceries. Checker was […]

Spring wardrobe sewing: Wants and ideas

A.k.a. “If I could go shopping, this is what I’d buy, but I can’t, so I’ll dream about sewing it instead, but really, in the end, we all know I’ll end up wearing the same ratty Old Navy t-shirts I did last summer.”

In fact, two of those are sewing pattern images (the green coat: built […]

Things that are lame

bloggers who think their piddling, holier-than-thou grievances are truly worth a 500-word essay
people who write to Miss Manners to win an argument
people who won’t give county teachers their paltry, nominal raises
@#$%& teething
not having the money to do things the way I want them to be done
a horse with a broken leg
this list.

I saw this little […]

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