oh hell yeah!

  ooh! well, that’s teensy. you get the idea.
tomorrow. so excited! 
yes, we are coming off an unintended 5 day weekend. crazy weather. cuh-razy!
and i loved every minute of it.
sewed.
knit.
cooked.
baked.
did laundry (ok, didn’t so much love that part)
and tomorrow we go back. the kids will be good, they are always low key after an extended break. they [...]

a renegade christmas

i had a good day. it started out not so good. i picked up nina and we headed to the city to go to the renegade holiday craft fair with natalie, her mom in law, sis in law and a friend and her mother.  (got all that?) we got about a half hour from home [...]

it’s alright, mama

yeah, sorry for that last post. i’m ok. at least i know what the hell is wrong with me and that it’s time to admit i can’t do it on my own. to be fair to myself, i DID do it on my own for a nice, long time. then my discs started bulging and [...]

i’m calling this “untitled”

just cause i’m clever like that.
this week i did something i hadn’t done for nearly a year. i scrapped. yup. scrapped, like with photos and paper and glue. i forgot how much fun it is.
i also forgot how freaking painful it is for my back. i haven’t had a good couple of days. the only [...]

i bent my big girl glasses

mrs.magoo is not a responsible glasses wearer.
but the sock is growing!

sunday, knitty sunday

 
with apologies to bono, of course.

so being the competitive beetch that i can be, i HAD to finish this mexican monkey sock by midnight on the 21st, when Summer of Socks officially kicked off. why is it a mexican monkey, you ask? ok, so you didn’t ask, but i’m going to tell you anyway. [...]

The Return of the Prodigal Blogger

In more ways than one.
i took a hiatus from blogging after two of my former little darlings (4th graders) decided they missed me and would google me. despite my best efforts to have a blog completely unassociated with my name, they found me. (hint: be sure no one else lists you by name in her [...]