a little adventure, before a big one

a little urban exploration, if you will. loads of fun. loads of pictures. here is one to share with you. we leave for germany on sunday! i'm so excited. i've been looking over maps for the last hour in anticipation!

friday finds

here is a little discovery that brought me cheer. feed your soul...
with a little free art. its a site that allows you download some artwork that artists donate a piece to, so we can enjoy. they are fun. check them out.

double daffodils

i happened upon these in our backyard. i believe they are called double daffodils. some were opening, and some just beginning to. here's my little macro photo exploration of it all!
have a lovely day. may they bring you cheer, as they did for me!

looks can be deceiving

i've gotten back into baking mode. i hadn't baked anything in a little while. i missed it. so with my day off, the kitchen was calling me. i was going to make lemon squares, because they're easy and i thoroughly enjoy them, but at the last minute i got this notion to substitute lime juice instead of lemon, for a change of pace. i'm sure somebody has thought to do this before, it just never occurred to me to take something i already like and make it into something i (now) like just as much.

i give you... my lime squares. just a simple substitution turned these into a most refreshing treat. only one problem, it made me want a key lime pie. summer is calling my name.

its bluebell season!

yesterday jason and i took a walk to my favorite childhood spot, behind my parents house. there we gathered one of my favorite spring flowers. bluebells. they grow in little clumps in the woods, and it has always delighted my heart in the spring. we had a grand time playing in the wood of my youth. it was nice to play, we don't do that enough lately.

gifts

this is it folks. may i present to you our bed. i know, your thinking who cares, but for those of you who do know, and care, here it is. our bed was a handmade wedding present from my father-in-law! its beautiful. modeled after the bed above, i saw in window of a store while i was in london. ours is a lovely take off of that one. jason's dad is an amazing wood crafter, and now we have this original to rest our heads and weary bodies each night.

oh, and the first is of my new toms shoes. i love these. mostly because of what it goes towards. check them out. they are doing good work.

these are what my sight is set on lately

i love, love, love spring. even though we are renting, we are blessed with an abundance of beautiful flowers, and trees in our backyard! i look forward to planning out a garden or several gardens when we have a house someday.



... and this is what i've been doing in a lot of my free time. we are planning a trip to germany and the netherlands at the end of april!!! very excited. and to add to my spring time excitement, we are most likely going to see thousands of tulips ( my favorite) in a huge holland garden!
lots going on. just not a lot going on here lately.

a few little signs of spring

beauty


inspiration

put to use

scarf reject turned t-shirt

so last week my sister and i had a craft day. i worked on a knitting project, got frustrated, then turned to sowing this t-shirt! i'm pretty happy with its turn out. i re- sized it from a mans long sleeve t-shirt, into a short sleeve shirt/ frock . i had this scarf that i got and realized it didn't lay so nice as a scarf, so i cut it out and sowed it onto the shirt. ta da.
it felt good to sow something. i haven't been able to sow, since my machine was broken, and i was not in the mood to fix it. but hopefully i will sow more again, since i did end up fixing it, with some help from jason!

then my nieces came home from school, and asked me about what i was doing. my niece anja saw my scraps of fabric (the sleeves) and got this brilliant idea to make wristbands for her and her sister. i admit they have some of the best most creative imaginations i know. they are inspirational. so i quick sowed up some wrist bands for them. they were delighted, and so was i at not wasting a scrap of fabric! i would of posted them too, but it was a crappy cell phone picture.

good day.

inspiration

amazing life, we've been given.
i know that you had some troubles, i have had some troubles.
we've been wasted, we've been complacent.
we've given in to getting through the days.
i hear the dogs singing in the trees.
they call the dusk to tell us not to sleep
a coming dark can't hide what we can't see.
the algebra
of innocence is lost in the bathroom mirrors,
practiced bode and steady.
we've complacent. we've been bad neighbors,
we've been unfaithful in our blind age.
to open up, to see what happens next, to see our
hearts, to risk breaking
our necks, to chop it down, to follow there against, so we'll be young
again
amazing world, the ground that gives.
i know that you've had some
troubles, i have had some troubles.
we've been wasted.
we've been complacent.
we've given in to getting through the days.
i saw a star fall from a green sky.
i saw you laugh, your eyes were open wide.
i saw your skin uncovered in the night.


this song has taken hold of me. the whole album is beautiful. and its free! here!