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Journaling

Posted on October 27th, 2011

I keep lots of journals. My favorites are my visual journals, which I fill with images, thoughts, poems, etc. from magazines, websites, cards, and whatever ephemera I can get my hands on. Here’s a peek at my most recent journal: It’s fun to look back on these and remember why I clipped a certain photo (or try to remember, anyway), and to wonder what I was thinking about back then. I suppose it’s like an analog Pinterest board. Does anyone else keep a journal like this? The crazy in me wants to scan in or photograph all these journals, just in case they ever get lost or burned or whatever. I’d have entire Flickr collections of these! I’m such a hoarder.

The Surprise Ball

Posted on June 9th, 2010

Edited to add: For all of you lovelies who are visiting from Abby’s fabulous blog, welcome! I hope you enjoy your visit. So I saw this surprise ball and decided I had to make one of my own. And I decided to fill it with cute trinkets and a gift card and give it to my niece for her wedding shower (and then I wouldn’t have to attempt carry a blender with me on the airplane). You basically wrap lots of tiny things in crepe paper, turning and turning as you go, until it’s a ball-o-goodies. (It will probably help to look at the link up there, so you can see what I mean.) I got all these trinkets to go inside: I found…

Halloween photos!

Posted on November 7th, 2009

Yay, we finally have Halloween photos to share! So just to give you some background, our friend Bud always does an elaborate costume for Halloween. This year he asked us to be a part of it, and our group grew and grew. Then a documentary filmmaker became interested in it, and so she filmed us as we made the costumes, donned them, and paraded down 6th Street. It was so much fun! Our theme was Steampunk Oz. Steampunk is a genre of sci-fi/fantasy that is based on the idea that in the future, steam power is used for everything. It involves a lot of gadgets and gas masks, leather and velvet, goggles and clocks. Our cast of characters: Toto/the Flying Monkey – Bud. He…

News from me

Posted on October 18th, 2009

Hi folks! It’s Sunday night, and I’m procrastinating on laundry and getting ready for the workweek. So, I’m doing my favorite thing, writing a list. On the food front, we’ve been eating lots of simple meals at home from some of our old favorite recipes. I posted the recipe for this soup four years ago, almost to the day! It’s still just as delicious, trust me. Also yummy was a broccoli-tomato-garlic saute with pasta and Parmesan cheese. Yum. I’m so excited, because this Thursday is the first day of the Austin Film Festival. If you need me at any time between October 22 – 29, I will be at the movies. Please leave a message. Also, Halloween costume? Check! I pretty much finished it…