Remembering Laughter

Roo's in the bath, I just finished knitting up her legwarmies, and Todd is downstairs hammering.

We had a fun evening yesterday playing Empire Builder and eating spaghetti and Welsh cakes.

Yellow #5

Since this is the last day of Yellow Week, I looked really hard today to see if I was missing anything. Here's what I found.

This is detail from my favorite of the colored pencil drawings I did before I became pregnant with Roo. This is the last drawing I did before my two-year sabbatical from art. I love the boat.

Yes, I'm drawing again now.

The craft of quilting fascinates me, so I decided to make Roo a crib/lap quilt. I've got my layers basted and ready to go, and I'm going to be hand quilting everything together over the next few months, learning as I go. Wish me luck!

Yellow #4

We really don't seem to have a ton of yellow around here. Maybe I need to address this deficiency.

This is Todd's mancala set. Roo likes it because it is (also) a fish.

I like it because it is cool.

Yellow #3

Is Roo sending me subliminal messages?

Yellow #2

(Roo and) I had a friend over today for the first time, for tea and knitting.

We had fresh teisen lap with our tea.

I'm introducing her to Ravelry, so now she's on the wait-list. Also, on Ravelry this past weekend I was found by my first in-real-life 'friend.'

Yellow #1

house on hill road is hosting a yellow week. Again, I'm unofficially playing along.

I thought I'd start off with some of my art, since I rarely post any on here. This is detail from one of a set of three mixed-media abstracts I did two years ago. They hang in the dining room, so I get to see them at every meal; good thing I like them. They are my first, last, and only foray into abstract art.

So far.

(That's a logarithmic spiral, specifically a Fibonacci spiral, mirrored, in blue. I do nerd art.)

::love::

Happy Valentine's Day!

Roo made valentines on Friday morning, with just the teeniest bit of help. She did the stickers and the coloring, I held the paper steady.

Today we all went on a road trip, had lunch at Exotic Thai, and then spent the afternoon at the Putnam Museum, which Roo loved. Possum skull! Snake skeleton! Taxidermy displays of bison, cheetah, and more! Yes!

What a fun way to celebrate with my two sweethearts!

The 13th

This morning, after making valentines, Roo and I went to the art museum downtown. She looked at the downstairs exhibit with interest, and then poked around while I looked in the galleries upstairs.

I finished these a little bit ago, and wore them during our brief warm-spell. Tonight it's snowing again, just a few inches, but I'm glad the ground is white again.

Dusty

I read that rubber plants like to be dusted every once in a while. Better get right on that.

Legwarmie #1 is finished. Now on to the second!

Recovering

The antibiotics are helping...

Ty, the little one, the stray kitten we found in our backyard just over a year ago. He's all grown-up, Roo's best playmate, and such a gentlemanly kitty.

Sick

Back tomorrow, maybe.

Rain

Today it rained for the first time since (before?) Thanksgiving. Our lovely snow cover has been thinning for a week or two now, but today we're down to bare lawns and the ugly muddy humps at the sides of the driveways. A February thaw, sigh.

But the Seattle girl in me loves the return of the raindrops, and the glossy deck, and the misty trees down towards the creek.

Especially if we get a fresh snowstorm this weekend.

Saturday: Risk

After baking muffins my morning deteriorated into a series of poorly planned maneuvers and pathetic dice luck. Todd schooled me, and it was pretty much my fault.

This made me grumpy, but in the end I was able to concede defeat fairly nicely. Still, it's the last time I'm playing pink for a while.

Routine

While Roo naps I do some little chores, but then I get some quiet time too - and usually I knit. My latest project is a pair of legwarmies for her, made with Dalegarn Baby Ull from the yarn shop over in Galena.

They're a spring green/aqua green stripe that sometimes I really like and sometimes I wonder a little about. Natural light: cute; compact fluorescents: ugh.