Monday, June 30, 2008

What's on your needles?????


a secret present for a far away mystery friend.....hmmm what could it be?


toadstool caps for my felt playscape I am making for my class


the gnome house I am knitting from this great pattern I found on etsy! Stay tuned I traded AnnSpun a few bars of soap for some of her other great patterns.

Garden still life


a portrait of yum by desi

Friday, June 27, 2008

please stand by.......

Stand by for what. Kind of silly but all night in my dreams I became obsessed with those little red lights on various appliances around the house. Why do I need a light to tell me that said piece of equipment is waiting for me to come back. Please come back and turn me on, says the stereo with its weird dancing light display, flaunting all of it's different functions across the digital screen. Come back begs my television with it's special color coded light up logo. Orange if it is off and white when it is turned on. Do they really believe I need a color coded light to confirm that the T.V. is turned off......Luke, you switched off your computer is something wrong????????

I dare you to take a look around your house and count up all of your electrical gadgets that have a standby light of some kind. I counted everything that has some sort of light on when you are not using it like the clock on the coffee maker, the display on the stereo etc. Report back with your numbers and I will post mine.

believe it or not all of these little lights and displays add up to electrical drain, sometimes referred to as a ghost load. Somewhere down the line, no matter how small it may seem, someone is making money off all these tiny lights. At this point there are no light free options, that makes me a little crazy!

Monday, June 23, 2008

weekly harvest wrap up

somehow, blame the heat, i forgot to post our harvest tallies for last week. in my defense it did 101 degrees here last week. i don't survive the heat very well! i won't complain about it further as all my DA cohorts already posted about it.

this last week we harvested:

our first ever so lovely purple cabbage (2 1/2 lbs )
2 dozen eggs
greens for two salads
4 artichokes
1st cucumber
2 tomatoes


mmmmmmm, sure was tasty!

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Construction update

Some of you may remember that my dear husband is building me a new studio, as he and all of his stuff took over my former studio. You have been asking me for progress reports. Sadly the progress is very slow! We are now waiting to be able to afford the electrician coming and sorting that all out. Most of the electrical is done, it just needs to be connected to the circuit breaker. Not really stuff I want to mess with...so I am saving my pennies!



Here is the inside view from the front door. You can tell the man has been here. See all the tell tale signs...tools all over the place and lots of sawdust!


The outside, I am happy to say is completed! Isn't it cute. My door is the set on the left. This studio will be much smaller than my former space but it has a lock on the door! Once it is completed we will be building a little patio outside the back door. I am planning a little bistro table and chairs to sit at and sip my coffee while gazing out over my little orchard!


Tuesday, June 17, 2008

we love our Dad!

Here is our dad! doing what he loves most....well at least one of the things.

we are so grateful that he chose to be part of our family!

we love you!

Monday, June 16, 2008

SHOP UPDATE!

This week the shenanigans shop is launching a line of t-shirts for kids. After much searching for cool stuff for our son, we finally decided to just do it ourselves!

here is the first design! It will be up in the shop today so go and check it out!

thanks!