Category Archives: Memories and Ruminations

~:: Disjointed Paragraphs ::~

Posted on April 21, 2011 by K

Another note: I am arbitrarily announcing that the challenge will not be over till I announce the winner on Monday.  So forget the old deadline.  I just keep hoping more courage will surface. 1).  April 3: Can anybody please explain … Continue reading →

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~:: Another Pony, and a Challenge ::~

Posted on April 15, 2011 by K

Two things today, and I’m a little shakey with trepidation, trying this. First, I show you island horse.  And daffodils.   Then I talk about found design.  Then a giveaway.  Except not exactly a free one.  It’s a challenge (this … Continue reading →

Posted in A little history, Events, Family, Fun Stuff, Making Things, Memories and Ruminations, snow, The kids | Tagged , , , , | 43 Comments

~:: How I Have Felt About Things ::~

Posted on February 18, 2011 by K

Long ago, somewhere just around the dawn of time, my mother gave me McCall’s Golden Do-it Book. It was this huge book of kids’ projects, and the very first chapter was “create with cast-offs.”  You were supposed to gather wooden … Continue reading →

Posted in A little history, Christmas, Making Things, Memories and Ruminations, Pics of Made Things | Tagged , , , , , | 40 Comments

Then they wuz all over the floor

Posted on January 19, 2011 by K

Down to serious business. As I may have said before, Etsy can ruin your life. I have substantial things to do. Novels to record. Maybe even write. Money to handle. A house falling to dust, clumps of molecules at a … Continue reading →

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Green Icky Balls and Russian Hats

Posted on January 18, 2011 by K

Oh-oh-oh, before I start, here.  I would like to announce the fact that I have fixed the Firefox problem (very perplexing).  I finally had the time and focus to go through the html/php/css to find the thing that had broken … Continue reading →

Posted in Christmas, dogs, Family, friends, Fun Stuff, holidays, Images, Memories and Ruminations, Seasons, The g-kids, The kids | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 22 Comments

~:: Take it again, from the top – ::~

Posted on December 12, 2010 by K

Ah, the time wings by, doesn’t it?  How can you “keep Christmas as a Lord Mayor’s household should,” and still have time to write about the experience? Here is the coolest possible thing in parenthood: when your grown up, single, … Continue reading →

Posted in A little history, Christmas, Epiphanies and Meditations, Family, Fun Stuff, holidays, Images, Making Things, Memories and Ruminations, The g-kids, The kids | Tagged , , , , , , | 14 Comments

:: All Hallow’s Eve ::

Posted on October 21, 2010 by K

I’m in the way of writing about Halloween today.  I know I’ve written about it a little before, but today is such a gloriously gloomy sort of day, I’m just feelin’ it.  I love holidays.  I love the ones that … Continue reading →

Posted in A little history, Epiphanies and Meditations, Explanations, Making Things, Memories and Ruminations, Pics of Made Things, Seasons, The kids | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 34 Comments

~o:> Ah, to be clever and crafty!

Posted on September 26, 2010 by K

I guess it’s because of the photobooks that my days disappear so quickly.  My Cammon dropped by the other morning to borrow G’s iPod.  I noticed the green truck at our curb, sandwiched into a line of string players’ vehicles … Continue reading →

Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Explanations, Just talk, Knit Stuff, Making Things, Memories and Ruminations, Pics of Made Things, Seasons | Tagged , , , , , , | 31 Comments

~o:> oh, camping, oh

Posted on August 1, 2010 by K

I think of myself as growing up in a Big Camping Family. I have slept on the ground with only an ancient sleeping bag between me and the rocks, on bouncy cots that turn over if you’re not careful, on … Continue reading →

Posted in A little history, Family, Horses, Journeys, Memories and Ruminations, Rachel | Tagged | 21 Comments

=: Red, White and Blue :=

Posted on July 7, 2010 by K

Once upon a time, I wrote this post which will tell you much more about me and the 4th of July than you will ever want to know.  And I posted pictures of that celebration, much smaller than our wont. … Continue reading →

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