Category Archives: Family

~:: Things Made ::~

Posted on February 25, 2015 by K

Finding gifts for grownups.  Tough.  While you may still be able to slip in a Matchbook car, trying to figure out which video camera accessory or computer component or even sweater or  Sephora product is going to do the job … Continue reading →

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~:: On Making Things ::~

Posted on February 25, 2015 by K

I wonder, sometimes, how many stupid things I say in a day. How many things that make total sense to me, but that can be, and will probably be, construed differently by the people I say them to? Considering the … Continue reading →

Posted in Christmas, friends, Fun Stuff, HappyHappyHappy, holidays, Making Things, Memories and Ruminations, Seasons | 3 Comments

~:: 2014 Ornament Bash ::~

Posted on February 12, 2015 by K

okay. I can’t remember when we started this party.  I think it was probably 1979. I may have explained explained the origins of this crazy n0w-tradition in other posts; my father and mother (I really I have to say this surprises me; … Continue reading →

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~:: What is the Grandmother Doing? ::~

Posted on November 1, 2014 by K

Yeah – it’s been an age since I entered anything here.  But then, it’s been an age since I started doing genealogy again. I finished a long-time dream: the book of my darling mother’s life. Turned out to be some … Continue reading →

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~:: A Story ::~

Posted on June 8, 2014 by K

The problem with me and blogging these last couple of years is simple and systemic: you have to be able to sit still long enough to write something down. Sitting still works while you are in thinking mode.  Doesn’t work … Continue reading →

Posted in Doing Things, Epiphanies and Meditations, friends, Fun Stuff, Geneva, HappyHappyHappy, Horses, Just life | Tagged , , , | 11 Comments

~:: A Sad Little Story ::~

Posted on March 14, 2014 by K

Some of you aren’t going to understand this. The last year has been just kinda hard. I shake my head at myself for writing that, knowing the kinds of things many of you have been dealing with. Mine has just … Continue reading →

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~:: Christmas Day ::~

Posted on December 25, 2013 by K

So, Chaz came to stay overnight on Christmas Eve, as she always does. But she did not get up before dawn.  Neither did we.  The kids were all going to show up at about nine, so the following pictures are … Continue reading →

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~:: December Making ::~

Posted on December 20, 2013 by K

More evening light in the middle of the afternoon.  This is what my studio looks like at Christmas. Sewing machine, organic bits of this and that, inorganic bits of this and that – Here is a little deer.  I’ve been … Continue reading →

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~:: Christmas Fête 2013 ::~

Posted on December 13, 2013 by K

I didn’t shoot a lot of images of anything this year.  But I did remember to ask to borrow one of Cam’s photo lights so that I could shoot the Christmas Party ornaments – so you guys could see them … Continue reading →

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~:: While Rachel was in Cancun ::~

Posted on December 5, 2013 by K

Some people are very insensitive. They forget that not everybody can just jet off at the beginning of December, leaving children for endless blue water, and fairly nice December weather in the mountains for the warm yellow light of the southern … Continue reading →

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