Day 37

Day 36

Day 35

First Weekend of Spring = A Full Weekend of Gardening

Alabama Studio Style Part 2

The Alabama Studio workshop with Natalie Chanin last Sunday was wonderful. That's about all that I can say about it. Spacecraft was wonderful. Natalie is lovely. The techniques were even more fun and easy than I could have imagined. The other participants were friendly and helpful.

And now I am addicted. I've already, in the course of 1 week, picked out 11 yards of cotton jersey from the Alabama Chanin Store, not to mention the 7,215 beads and 12 spools of thread. I'm going to make a dress, a skirt, and a top. And pillows. And placemats. And finish my bandana (pictured above). Yeah. I think I need to take a breath. But it's all just too much fun! I can't seem to stop. And I don't want to.

Day 33

The Quest for a Desk

Patrick has always dreamed of a desk. The perfect desk. Which is perfectly reasonable, as he is a writer. The problem is that we have never had space for said desk. But that never stopped him from picking out desks every time we ran across them. Now that we have space, of course, these perfect desks have stopped crossing our path. I think that it just means that when we do find a perfect desk again, it will really be the desk but, for now, the green table left behind by the former owners of the house will just have to do.

But he doesn't mind. Especially as his study is probably the room most far along in terms of what has been done to it. (See evidence below)

And it is the room with the lovely view of the mountains and the town down the hill. Even if he is not yet looking at them from his Mission Style desk.


Although this wall on the left will be a wall of bookcases and it is currently a blank wall, the curtains for the room are sewn and hung and there is a sitting area with a small reading table. It will be quite a nice room someday but, for now, it is still one of the spots farthest along the road.