Wee me
Me and my sister. I made it a nice frame with notebook paper and a stapler. I love how the snow is just falling in clumps. 1989?
This is the cover of a card I made for my sister. I must have been six-ish.
I draw things similar to this today. Love birds have heart shaped bodies (thank you Sonja Ahlers for rekindling that idea in Temper Temper) and shapes (along with other inanimate objects) get arms and legs and sometimes faces.
Tattoo idea
This tattoo would be on my left arm, on the back about an inch above my elbow. I think the 'c' of the c-clamp would be red or brown or nicely shaded grey (if I can find someone who does that well).
My first fall was here
I was walking to work and thought it was really wonderful how danger free my walk had been (I would say 80% of the walk was really well shoveled and clear of hazards). About 20 feet before turning down the alley to work is this icy dangerous parking lot driveway to franklin. This is also while walking downhill. I took a confident and cautious step, everything seemed fine then
BAM, I was on my ass. Another report on my 311 app. I have 870 civic points right now!
BAM, I was on my ass. Another report on my 311 app. I have 870 civic points right now!
Winter is here
On my walk to work. The sky was so clear and blue. The snow was so new that nothing was dirty yet. It was so beautiful and magical outside.
AND an added bonus... the house that doesn't shovel had someone snowblow the sidewalks!!! I had to walk around him and it was too loud to yell or say anything so I tried to walk up the snow bank to walk by. He started backing up without looking over his shoulder, right in my direction and quick! so I put both my arms out with my palms out and he backed into them and stopped, surprised someone was right there. I hope he learned to look over his shoulder when backing up!
I am really happy that they are keeping their sidewalks clear. It is about my halfway point on my way to and from work, having a safe walk helps me have a better walk and a better day.
This is the Minnesota African American History Museum, I wait for the 11 bus across the street from it. They have been working so hard on getting it fixed up and ready. The house looks beautiful and is restored inside (a few years ago I had a chat with a man who worked on the house stripping paint, they used environmentally safe products and it was a very time intensive project. He said there are amazing pocket doors and so many beautiful old nice details all over inside).
I remember years and years ago being in a car and driving past this house and saying "I want to live in that house someday" and ever since then having a special love for the house.
The museum looks like it will be pretty amazing, from what I have seen online and on television.
Winter is here.
I have shoveled so much snow and chipped so much ice. I love it.
Today I bought my self a brand new winter coat. I haven't done that in a few years (jacket from Target on super clearance later with my own "twue wuv" embroidered and a kitten on the back). I need to do something to this coat to make it mine. I am thinking it will probably have to be a doily somewhere or some rickrack or maybe just a simple embroidered thing, like a loop de loop around the bottom and part of it has a totoro or two standing there. Or a bird, maybe scalloped telephone wires around the bottom with birds on part of the wires and a larger bird somewhere else, like on the sleeve or hood or shoulder. I could embroider it with think silver metallic floss. That would look nice.
Maybe babys breath or some other small white flower (I love small white flowers) on the shoulders. Maybe I wont do anything and it can just be my practical winter coat that looks like everyone elses winter coat.
Franklin Terrace Cafe (Tuesday lunch!)
I had always seen the sign for the Franklin Terrace Cafe on my walks to and from work. I was always curious about what it was.
This last election I voted in the back room, not the front room as I have the last few years. I walked by the cafe on my way and was even more curious.
My neighbor and I talked about our mutual intrigue. We went last week and had a nice meal. We went back this week and brought a friend.
It was great. They had stir fry with black rice, a Moroccan vegetable soup called Chorba (it had heirloom black garbanzo beans in it, and cinnamon!). I ordered a mushroom swiss burger. It was great, it had tomato and spinach on it and some stone ground Mustard Girl mustard. The burger came with home made potato chips (so good) and I also got a beet pickled egg (so cute and pink). We hadn't really explored the salad bar before. Betsy took that route and had a lunch half my price including a coffee. The salad bar had a quinoa edamame salad, the pretty pink eggs, some delicious crunchy strips and all kinds of other awesome salad fixins.
This cafeteria is awesome. I hope to go every Tuesday that I can. The flavors are great, no two dishes taste remotely the same. There egg salad sandwich is awesome too, I do not like egg salad usually because it is so much mayonnaise and too mushy. Theirs was not. The curry chicken salad sandwich is great too. This place does not disappoint. 5 days a week I have my "lunch" at work. It is dishes that I am used to or what I bring from home. The quality can vary and sometimes nothing looks good, without getting too creative (or boring).
It is so nice to have a lunch break on a non-work day with non-coworkers. So often hanging out is after the sun has set, it is nice to have a lunch here and there.
Today there was a craft sale in the lobby of the Church Center. After lunch we all spent time looking around and bought things. The sale was for SERRV. There were so many different fun things to look at. Most were Christmas, peace and Christian inspired crafts. The craft styles were very diverse, something for everyone. It was a pleasant surprise. Not many things I would buy for myself (well, that were in my price range, there were some more expensive slippers and salt and pepper shakers and scarves...) but I did buy mylself a bracelet and a Christmas present for someone.
Back to the lunch. I bought eggs a week and a half ago. I should hardboil them this week. I would like to make beet pickled eggs. I haven't really made pickled eggs before. I think adding beets will be really easy and add such a nice element to the finished product. Someday.
Here is an up close of the eggie. Half eaten.
NORGE!
Today's lesson is paper flag bunting, for NORWAY!
Today it snowed a ton, I went to my folks to shovel, hang out and have dinner.
My mom made sandbakkels. She wanted to take a nice picture of them. I decided we needed to dress it up a bit.
What could be better than flag bunting?
you will need:
-construction paper (red, white and blue)
-scissors
-glue (and optional tape)
-string/yarn/twine (and optional toothpick)
Cut red "flag" rectangles. Cut long white strips of paper and slightly narrower blue strips.
Glue blue strips to the white strips, centered.
Cut long strips to go down the long middle of the flag (leave room at the top for folding over later), glue it down. Cut smaller stripe strips and glue those down meeting up with the long strip.
Its ok if the strips hang off the edges, trim the flags when they are all glued. (See my little trimmings pile in the corner?)
Fold tops over in preparation for gluing to the string.
I used baking twine from the kitchen cat.
I forgot to take a picture of the gluing step. I used elmers glue for this. I lined the inner crease of the fold with glue, placed the string across the glue at the fold and pressed down. I also taped the flap down because it kept popping back up.
I miss-measured my twine and had one flag left over. That went on a toothpick.
That toothpick flag made everything awesome. Check out this hot dish!
After taking our cookie pictures, the bunting found a nice home on a kitchen window.
Would great great grandfather Adolf Gustav Anderson like these? I hope so.
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I made this bag the other day. It holds my current knitting project and is working out a lot better than my drawstring knitting project bags I have made before.
This bag is a dark green baby wale corduroy outside with small red/orange flower calico fabric inside. It perfectly holds a ball of yarn and short double pointed needles and my current project (for my sister...). I also keep a small sewing kit in the bag and a stitch holder.
I tried to draw this pattern out yesterday. I made some errors in my instructions and the pictures were only ok. Today was the second time I have made this bag.
I was inspired by a customers bag at work. It was so nice to bag her groceries and tie the handle closed. I knew I had to make myself a bag like that. I think the next time I make one it will have gussets on the bottom.
(I will make a clear pattern and have pictures to go with it when I do.)
I made this bag for my mom. I used some orange/brown fabric with polka dots and some really pale turquoise/blue for the lining.
I cut 2 long rectangles (fabric is folded over on the long side).
I cut the rectangle in half. I cut triangles from one half (two of each color, measuring at base a little more than half of the width of the side of the bag)
Here is how the bag goes together.
Sew the 'ears' together, outsides to the insides. Turn right side out and sew around the edges.
Sew the 'ears' onto the body of the bag (sew sides together of liner and outsides, I forgot to add that. Make liner seam allowance a teensy bit larger than the outside, but THE SAME at the top)
I cut notches at the center of the base of each 'ear' to line up with the side seams. My first bag had seams in the middle of the 'ears', so I just lined up the seams.
Have your bag body right side out (ear liner facing out). Put liner on bag and sew around the top.
(in this picture, the top is on the left)
Fold bag liner down and inspect your work.
Turn outside bag body inside out, sew bottom closed. Trim corners for nice corners.
Also, if you feel like it (I usually do) sew around the top seam of the bag. Right sides out.
Fold bottom of the liner in and sew closed.
Here it is done and open.
Here it is tied closed!
Here the bag is tied and hung up on a cupboard knob over my parents kitchen sink.
This picture is the best representation of the colors. It was a fun bag to make. I look forward to making more and perfecting a pattern for a few different sizes/styles.
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