I've been participating in something called Me Made May. I've seen others doing it over the years and I thought it was time I tried it. Here's a blurb about Me Made May from it's founder: MMM is a wardrobe challenge that helps you improve your relationship with your handmade items. It can also teach…

I've been enjoying my garden and I feel like my veggie plot is setting up to have a really good year. I put all my herbs in pots this year to make more room for extra tomato plants. The peas are growing so fast on their new taller trellis. I've been picking more rhubarb and…

More and more I think about how this blog is all about me. In a sense it has always been me, me, me but in the early days I had so much to say about my growing girls. And there were so many opportunities to get photos of their cute little faces. Now, my head…

I've got a green and yellow theme happening.  I finished making this bag. It's a new pattern from Helen's Closet called the Orbit Bag. Fun to make and fun to wear!

Claire hates it when I get sentimental and tell stories about when she was little… But I can't help it. Whenever her Spring-time birthday rolls around I think of strawberries and strawberry cake. And I think of this video where she says strawberry in her two-year-old voice. And then she is much more interested in…

I made a dress that's for easy summer days when you just want to throw on something loose and comfy. I decided to use a mash-up of two shirt patterns plus a basic skirt made out of the rest of the fabric I had. I used two Liesl and Co. patterns – the Verdun Woven…

What's going on around here – not much. Mostly I'm feeling spring obsessed. Finding myself wandering outside several times a day to check on the growth of my plants. And also resuming drinking my coffee outside most mornings.  I planted a bunch of daffodils last fall. Planting them in existing flower beds is such a…

Finally getting around to posting the photos from the other part of our Spring Break. On Thursday Claire and I flew from Munich to New York to meet Jennifer and Jenna.  We spent the next day zipping around Manhattan – seeing museums and a show and doing lots of shopping. The Little Island was windy!…

For spring break we went to visit some German Speaking Universities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. We were on the go! Here are a bunch of photos. First Vienna. We went to the Natural History Museum Empress Maria Theresa's little dog. Many many old specimens like this one from 1758. Next we went to Munich.…

This is the Hellebore Cowl by Jamie Lomax. A fun project.