"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Distractions, Photo entries on Sep 17th, 2009
We’ve been finding these big ol’ garden spiders all around the back yard just lately. They’re huge-o-normous and build the burliest webs which quickly fill up with dried fly husks. This one wasn’t garden-spidering so much as in-Joel’s-workshop-spidering, so he caught it and put it outside where it belonged. This picture was a team effort, […]
Posted in Photo entries, Super-Short Entries, Well I'll Be Darned on Sep 13th, 2009
Here’s that cool fungus I was talking about the other day…the one we had to stop and marvel at when we were out riding the trails at Smithville Lake. I have no idea what it is, other than some kind of a fungus, but man, isn’t it pretty? Looks like a big old hunk of […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Photo entries, Sewing on Sep 9th, 2009
Yesterday, I was ratting around in the garden picking weeds and taking pictures of some of the zinnias, when I noticed a little brown snail intently exploring a fallen leaf. So first, I snapped a few pictures of it, because I thought it was oddly cute. Then I realized, “duh” with this new version of […]
Posted in Family, Photo entries, Sewing on Aug 22nd, 2009
Good grief! I can’t believe it’s already a week since we went up to Omaha and helped my sister and her family celebrate Max’s second birthday, but there it is…I’m such a SLACKER! My niece and nephews are such awesome little kids! Here’s the birthday boy himself, enjoying an ice-cream-cone cupcake. The big kids decorated […]
Posted in meta, Photo entries on Aug 14th, 2009
I most generally take a lot of pictures. Sometimes I see something just totally random and awesome, and so I have to stop and whip out the camera and record it for posterity: I mean, would you otherwise have believed me if I told you that I saw GOATS in an empty lot on my […]
Posted in Adventures, Distractions, Photo entries on Jul 9th, 2009
We met up with Dr. Greg & his daughter Kayla in Parkville today and rode the river back to Kansas City. Greg had recently acquired a sweet vintage aluminum canoe and was itching to get it out on the river, and I’d been stoked about spending some more time on the Mighty Mo after the […]
Posted in Fashion/Sewing stuff, Photo entries, Sewing on Jun 11th, 2009
I’m really bad about starting suits and taking forever to finish them. At least the suit you’re about to see didn’t take me almost four years to finish! It was only back in February when I started this one. Ugh…the skirt looks like I cut it crooked in these photos because it barely fit over […]
Posted in Family, Party, Photo entries on Jun 8th, 2009
and miraculously not deeper in debt. Well, yesterday was my birthday, so I guess I’m now officially 32, though I’ve been telling people I was 32 for about the past 3 months. I have a longstanding habit of rounding up whenever my birthday is nearish. I think it may track back to the childish habit […]
Posted in Adventures, Other Bike Stuff, Photo entries on Mar 2nd, 2009
So, the North American Handmade Bicycle Show was AWESOME! A little overwhelming at times, but isn’t that the “awe” part of “awesome”? Since pictures are supposedly worth thousands of words, you’re gettin’ mostly pictures (and honestly, isn’t that what you’d want anyway). It was a really fun experience and I look forward to going to […]
Posted in Fashion/Sewing stuff, Photo entries, Sewing on Feb 21st, 2009
, originally uploaded by Meetzorp. I’m making a suit out of some fabric I’ve had hanging around for a while. I’ve decided to embrace the dorktastic cliches of fashion journalism and dub this the “mad for plaid” plaid suit. It will be kind of frilly and girly and totally awesome in every plaid-laden way. This […]