Over the weekend we went up to the Milwaukee Art Museum. I wanted to go see their exhibit on the Ashcan School but I was pleasantly surprised at the wonderful architecture of the museum itself. It was designed by Santiago Calatrava – we used to travel through a Zurich train station that was designed by…

I'm working on two knitting projects right now. A sweater that I'm really enjoying – feels like a confidence builder. I bought some pretty light blue buttons for it and I'm ready to start the sleeves. I'm learning to make socks! I've finished the easy part now I'm waiting to do the heel with my…

I got to go for another crafty weekend trip with a bunch of fun ladies. This group has been getting together to do scrapbooking for years and years and I feel grateful for being inviting to join them.  Here's our setup It's so nice to have a house set up with a space for each…

We're finally getting a bit of snow. And I made myself a head scarf to keep cozy. The pattern is from Spaghetti Western Sewing. Here's their tag line: At home sewing patterns for 1940's spaghetti western prairie disco goatheard-ess nonno-core alpine ski lodge kinda people. Sounds about right.   I am, of course, trying to emulate…

We're having such a warm winter so far but we were still able to go skating at the ribbon in Maggie Daley Park. A fun afternoon.

2023 is off to a quiet start. Brian spent all week in Switzerland for work. He sent pictures of the pretzel he got at the train station and of the chocolate aisle at the grocery store. Gosh, I miss those things! I took a walk at the Chicago Botanic Garden twice this week. One day…

I have a few more photos from the second part of our trip to Costa Rica. We went to the Pacific coast side to a town called Jaco.  Our hotel was right along the beach and unlike Monteverde – it was hot. We climbed up a hill on the edge of town to a ruined…

Goodbye sweet ornaments and trees and houses and shiny glass balls. Good-bye dear deers. And good-bye to this twee little angel that I found in Costa Rica. 

We just returned from a vacation to Costa Rica.  We flew into San Juan and then drove to the mountains – to Monteverde and its cloud forest.  On the first day we hiked all around the the Cloud Forest Biological Reserve. The rainforest was fascinating and a little intimidating. It's so dense and wet and…

I'm so bad at taking photos at Christmas. But here are a few to prove we had a nice time in Michigan. Games were played. Sparkly things sparkled. Laughs were laughed. Cookies were eaten. Dogs were scratched behind the ears. More cookies were eaten. Moments were had.