I’ve been working a lot in the gardens, MFH has been busy, and StrongBaby has reached the Age of Mischief.
I made a laundry bag from yet another tablecloth. I usually don’t like to cut up perfectly good vintage linens, but this one was rather garish and had barely been used, let alone loved to [...]
…is featured on the Make: blog today. The amplifier is his Stella Amp design; with the addition of a few other things, it can be entirely powered by the sun. It has cute little LEDs that show when it is charging or fully charged.
…my children are much more interested in being read to.
I’ve also been doing some sewing off and on: two tablecloth skirts done, two to go. More than a year ago I was given a better sewing machine than my crotchety old one, and I finally took the time to figure out how to [...]
…and everything is going my way.” That is what keeps going through my head every time I see another commentary on Rosen’s misstep into deep Mommy Wars doo-doo. (It is a paraphrased line from an upbeat song that was…um…not originally about babies.)
I’ve been tweaking household routines since we moved, and it has occurred [...]
OLC and I did some quick experiments in painting on colored fabric with bleach yesterday. I wanted to try putting bleach into a dried-out marker for a homemade bleach pen. It worked, once the last of the ink was rinsed out, but it was drippy and tended to snag on the light fabric [...]
Let’s build a new house.
Let’s build the new house out of the old house.
Let’s live in the old house until the new house is finished.
–Remy Charlip, Arm in Arm
Now that moving chores and tax season have begun to subside, I have been working (in my spare moments) on drafting an A-line skirt pattern for myself, [...]
After numerous and various excitements and adventures, we are settling in to the new place and enjoying it. (The phone company showed up two weeks late, so I’ve been living entirely offline until now.)
The weather took a fast turn from snow to summer; I hope it backtracks a little and does some spring.
Sallie has a good link about the extent that companies will go to, to gather information on their customers. In this case, it is Target trying to figure out as early as they can which customers are expecting babies, based on items purchased; the birth of a child disrupts parents’ spending patterns, and so [...]
We found a new place; it was probably the easiest housing search I’ve ever had. No beige, thank God. Now for the hard part: getting our stuff there. So far I’ve just been purging; we’ve been living the frugal life hard the past few years, to cope with various major expenses, [...]
We’re still not sure where we’re moving, but God did put one house in our path to see, if not to live in–a truly homely house tucked away in an unlikely place. It was good for my soul to see that such houses still exist; I am finding that nearly all of the rental [...]