Welcome February | 2.5.24
The Polar Intuit of northwest Greenland, the northernmost people, call February ‘seqinniaq’, “the month when the sun appears. ― Fred Bruemmer Yes, February brings lengthening days and in Pittsburgh, we will gain an additional 66 minutes of daylight this month! Woot!...
A Gathering of Poetry | 10.20.22
Welcome to the second installment of A Gathering of Poetry. Today, I am going to introduce you all to a poet I discovered late last month on the Poetry For All podcast. I had never heard of Rafael Campo but I was so enamored of the poem, Primary Care, that I checked...
Unraveled Wednesday | 10.19.22
Greetings Gentle Unravelers! This week I am profoundly grateful for the diversions that making brings... I needed diversions this week! And so I am sharing the plethora of them that have been entertaining me! Buckle in! The sewing. Oh my. Well, there is a very good...
Museum of Me | October 2022
I am convinced that most people do not grow up... We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias. — Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter This, my friends, was a very...
Pre-vacation RIFFing | 10.14.22
First up... before any fun begins... I want to give a bit of a reminder to check your voting registration... in PA you have until October 24th to register to vote in the November election AND there is still time to get your mail-in ballot! You will find your state...
Unraveled Wednesday | 10.12.22
Greetings Unravelers! Welcome to the weekly making/reading check-in! October has a Gnome... and what a Gnome she is! Meet Gnutkin! She is all in for fall! She is based on this pattern from Imagined Landscapes... sans beard, but I made some Pippi Longstocking-esque...
Sometimes Monday | 10.10.22
Brings an adjusted To-do List... I stumbled across this quote over the weekend and have not stopped thinking about it. Sometimes our stop-doing list needs to be bigger than our to-do list. ― Patti Digh, Four-Word Self-Help: Simple Wisdom for Complex Lives Yes, it...
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