So I think there was something wrong with my web site for a while there. Is it fixed now? You folk who haven’t seen anything new since November, is this all showing up? And if it is, will you do me a favor? Will you change my toddler’s stinky pants?

I’ve written another useful article over at Meylah.com about combining children and creative work:

I was sewing patchwork coasters, one of my favorite things to make. I had a mouthful of pins, the machine was whirring, and I was whipping out patchwork blocks like a dervish. I must have been working like this for forty minutes or more, fairly absorbed, when something brought me back to myself. I’m guessing it was the shrieks.

Hee.

For this piece, i interviewed Debbie Lee (of 60Bugs, Crafty Bastards and Handmade Mart); Heather von Marko (of HVM Designs and Charm City Craft Mafia and an instructor at Lovely Yarns); and Jessica Levitt (fabric designer for Windham). Woo hoo!

Love, Jack Sparrow and The Bat Man.

I’m contributing over at my favorite fabric blog, True Up, run by the always-amazing Kim Kight.

This week I introduced myself and also interviewed fellow Northwest Ohio expat (can you be an expat of a state? What would that be called?) Erin McMorris about her new fabric collection called Wildwood.

I love my job.

Just as I had a really good time interviewing designers in person during Quilt Market this spring, I’m having a really good time interviewing them over the internet. The quilt-and-fabric industry has been blessed, or something, with extremely down-to-earth, pleasant, friendly, generous and occasionally really funny people.

So anyway. I’ll be making more regular contributions in the future and talking about them (or at least bringing them up) here, so, as they say, stay tuned. (E.g. You could follow trueup on twitter or subscribe to the blog feed or just keep refreshing Supafine in an OCD-type manner until I post again, at which point you may pause to read, I give you full permission.)

kakimoto arms = My favorite place for hairstyle photos.

Some days being a stay-at-home mother to two kids under the age of four makes me want to shave my head and fill my face with doughnuts. I don’t know why. Today was one of those days.

Overnight, the kids wet the bed they share. Breakfast was immediate and loud. Then they fought over toys. Mac picked today to decide to wear big boy underpants. He wet them. Twice. I mopped up puddles of urine, swept up breakfast crumbs, swept up lunch crumbs, did four loads of laundry. I popped in to the Internet to check Twitter and my newsreader and my e-mail, bemoaning my lack of time management skills all the while. I fed the children. I soothed the children. I put one down for a nap and sat down with the other to do “homework.” I folded four loads of laundry. I mediated fights, I poured drinks, I hopped from one task to another, invited the neighbor girl over to play, rescued Mac from the top bunk not once but twice. I dug through my recipe book, found the one for pretzels. Decided nothing else I wanted to get done was going to get done today, so set about making sure hands and faces were scrubbed and then pulled stepstools up to the kitchen island for a drawn-out dough-making process involving three pairs of tiny hands.

The end result was delicious.

I never appreciated just how hard my mother worked and how much she gave up until I had my own kids.

Happy Mother’s Day, Mom. Thanks for being you, and thanks for everything you’ve done for us.

I went to Homecoming with my sisters and some friends yesterday.

After many, many hours of walking around in the sun (and a beer or two from the BG News alumni tent) —

— and a couple of Pollyeye’s breadsticks, I arrived home feeling like a little kid who had been at the zoo all day. *Clonk! ZZzzzzzz*

Very fun. And I got express permission from Emmy, Katie, Dani, Jenny and Rema to put that group shot on Supafine, which was basically the whole reason for this post. Hi, girls!