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Posie Gets Cozy
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On designing, making, and selling rosy little things
#765 in All , #24 in Interior design

Peonies

When I was a little girl there was a lady on our block named Mrs. Schleeter. (I have no idea how to spell her name, but thats what it sounded like.) She lived across the street from us and one house ...

2 days ago 5 people like this

Beet It

Do you want to just throw up right now? I know, me too. Turns out my garden forager wasnt exotic at all; I staged a reconnaissance mission in the rainy dusk of Monday night and caught one of these ge...

5 days ago 1 person likes this

Homemade Pantry

The weekend before last, Andy and I went to the farmers market to get some stuff and then we spent the rest of the day making things from The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying and Start ...

22 may 12 2 people like this

After Dinner

Were having an early summer, I think. Today its raining, but the weekend was busy with outside things. The garden is almost entirely planted. My back yard container plants seem happier than ever. Its...

21 may 12

Nice Week

Carrots and potatoes are up : : Tulips finished, peonies coming : : Antiquing for Shellys birthday : : The best potato salad at Natalias : : My hexie cheater quilt : : More friends in town tonight fr...

18 may 12 4 people like this

My Spring Rain Quilt

This quilt is so big I didnt even try to capture the whole of the design, but you can track its evolution here and here and here and here. Its soft and fluffy and puffy and warm and makes me happy. I...

16 may 12 2 people like this

Things to Do in Portland, Oregon

Should you find yourself in the Rose City, here are a few suggestions for you. No list could be comprehensive; I compiled this one from this blogs local reader comments (thank you!), and added severa...

15 may 12 11 people like this

Pittock Mansion

On a hill in the woods overlooking the city sits century-old Pittock Mansion (and its former servants quarters, Gate Lodge). Its a beautiful house and has all of the old house-y things I love: butler...

14 may 12 2 people like this

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend and a very happy Mothers Day xoxo.

11 may 12 2 people like this

Lilac Time

When she sticks her tongue out like this I just melt into a foamy puddle of butter. For the winter squash, eggplants, and cucumbers (that Andy wants to pickle), my neighbor (who is a garden wizard) t...

09 may 12 1 person likes this

Rhubarb Custard Pie

Ah! Pie! Rhubarb custard: sweet, tart, creamy, crusty, and generally awesome. Simple spring pleasure. It worked out well! Now (naturally) I want to grow rhubarb but I dont think we have enough room i...

08 may 12 5 people like this

Full Sun

Things are happy because the sun is finally out. I love being in the shade when it is sunny. Riding bikes up to the grocery store for the first time. I love this time of year. Think I might make rhub...

07 may 12

Coming Along

I treated myself to a little pile of publications yesterday (this one and this one and this one). Ive had a nice week, soaking up inspiration and getting my hands really dirty. I even have a sliver (...

04 may 12 1 person likes this

Garden Fever

The weather turned winter-cold and insistently wet, and I beat the retreat back into the house and dove into my quilt pile to watch every episode of River Cottage and Jamie at Home that I could find ...

02 may 12 3 people like this

A Little Garden

And there it is, our little garden, two days old. So excited! So tired! More soon!

30 apr 12 3 people like this

Spring Busy

I forget: Photos look so cool when they are printed. Especially at big sizes, like 8" x 10". Ive been going through my archives, especially since getting the Canon, and picking out lots of ...

27 apr 12 3 people like this

For Future Veggies

In the now-quiet house, the animals appear again, venturing back out into the center of the spaces. After a weekend of the most beautiful weather Ive even seen in my entire life, yesterday dawned clo...

25 apr 12 2 people like this

The best visit ever. Dear, sweet treasures in my life.xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

24 apr 12 3 people like this

Cant Hardly Wait

We are so lucky! Our friends are coming to visit us! The plane gets in this afternoon. My heart is bubbling over. So, so, so excited. So excited.

18 apr 12 1 person likes this

Lemons and Poppyseeds

I finally finished tying the quilt shortly after I took this photo. It was all I could do not to take it out of the dryer (I always wash and dry my quilts [on warm] the minute I finish them), put my ...

18 apr 12 3 people like this

We Get Ready

Rain rain go away. My dearest friend Martha and her baby girl Mila are coming to visit in two days and the forecast is rain all the way. I have the conversation circle all ready out back, but I have ...

16 apr 12 1 person likes this

April Showers

In between sunbreaks I would like to tie the quilt, especially when its pouring, and I mean pouring rain outside and us girls are all tucked in upstairs after dinner, waiting for Andy in the warm, ro...

12 apr 12 2 people like this

While the Dough Rises

Winner: Most Kissable Nose 2012. If you havent made the Dutch oven bread yet pretty pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ase try it right away. I ...

11 apr 12

Getting to Know the Wild Flowers

And a slug. In his natural environ. Lower Macleay Trail, 4/9/12. (*Several people have written to me to let me know that they have been having a hard time leaving comments for the past week or so. I ...

10 apr 12 2 people like this

Sunshine Day

The weather here has been so glorious the past few days its almost all I can think about. And talk about. I think my life revolves around the weather more than I think it does. Getting outside into t...

09 apr 12 2 people like this

Flowered Eggs

Last night Andy and I made some Easter eggs inspired by these pretty ones. I just clipped some tiny sprigs from our tangle of a yard, placed them on the raw eggs, took a square of pantyhose (if you d...

06 apr 12 4 people like this

Spring Plans

Loveliest friends for dinner Tuesday night. I made a salad with roasted vegetables, chicken tikka masala, and basmati-rice pudding with cardamom (my version of kheer). Id make a double batch of this ...

05 apr 12 1 person likes this

It was so beautiful yesterday. I had the doors and windows open. I didnt have any music on at all, just so I could hear all of the birdsong weve been missing so much these past long months. I have a ...

03 apr 12 3 people like this

Spring Rain

Whew. A few days ago I was about to do something else, and before I knew it was sitting under an enormous half-finished quilt with a big blister on my finger. It was like I accidentally stepped into ...

02 apr 12 2 people like this

I know.

Ive got problems.

01 apr 12 1 person likes this

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