Category Archives: Just life

~:: 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 →

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~:: 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 →

Posted in A little history, Christmas, Events, Felt stuff, friends, Fun Stuff, holidays, Knit Stuff, Making Things, Pics of Made Things, Stuffed things, Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 8 Comments

~:: 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 →

Posted in A little history, Doing Things, Family, Fun Stuff, Making Things, Memories and Ruminations, Pics of Made Things, Seasons, The g-kids | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 30 Comments

~:: 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

~:: 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 →

Posted in Christmas, Family, Fun Stuff, Gin, HappyHappyHappy, holidays, Pics of Made Things, Seasons, The g-kids, The kids | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 13 Comments

~:: 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 →

Posted in Christmas, Events, friends, Fun Stuff, holidays, Making Things, The kids | Tagged , , , | 8 Comments

~:: 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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~:: November 2013 ::~

Posted on November 7, 2013 by K

I know this is November because G has already sucked up all the leaves. October is a glorious riot.  November is this quiet, sorta peaceful and bland time between wild October and glorious December. See how the children are playing … Continue reading →

Posted in A little history, dogs, Family, friends, Fun Stuff, Light, The outside world | Tagged , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

~:: Another Sampler:Summer ::~

Posted on July 17, 2013 by K

I am still not myself. I don’t care about capturing light. I don’t care about writing. I don’t care about making things. The fact that I don’t care about cleaning the house is the only reassuringly normal thing about these … Continue reading →

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