a massive photo dump from our recent trip to NYC for poppy’s spring break! had tons of fun seeing old friends (aaron, nicole, mike, yufei, nick and danielle), shopping some (marimekko, abc carp...
i’m the new owner of a fabulous old dame of a sewing machine, a 1930s singer 15-91! i purchased it last weekend from a dear new friend i met through the chicago modern quilt guild, erika...
More little bits of our current apartment falling into place. Got a new gray couch from Bo Concept in January, a welcome replacement for the former couch. Our old se...
There used to be a time when i wasn’t much for cooking. I was and have always been a lover of food but generally didn’t make much of an effort in the way of making it myself for mos...
ugh, the past few weeks were super über crazy! just as peter and i were getting over our respective illnesses, little p fell sick…with the stomach flu. lemme tell ya, there&#...
..in spite of it all. all being that everyone in our household has been at least a little sick, if not a lot sick, the past couple of weeks. i’ve had a chest cold (?) ...
in the fabric silkscreening class i am taking at lillstreet, we are supposed to be coming up with designs to burn on our screens. i’m playing around with india ink and vellum and s...
monday morning: went to the DMV downtown and got my new Illinois drivers license. happy to have a nice new non scary dl photo. ???? monday night: started my fabric silk...
bill cunningham new york: probably the best (documentary) film i have watched in a good, long time. i was smiling throughout the whole film, all 1.5 hours of it. he’s j...
i basically haven’t changed at all. same tricia, different year. always completely out of date & stuck in my ways. -vintage goldtone hoops with orange, pink and purple beads: 25th street f...
it took me a couple days to formulate some plans. quilting related: -keep quilting. quilt more and more as time allows. -push myself, and stretch myself when it comes to quilting. strive to keep tr...
this photo isn’t from NYE, but, close enough. (it was from pete’s work Xmas party back on dec. 10th.) i have been around, but busy. i also got an iPad and that derailed my blogging big ...
we’ve been in our new place here in chicago for two weeks, tomorrow. my mom came a few days after moving in to help out and take care of p while i set to work putting things in their places. ha...
we’re here! we arrived earlier this week, after a two and a half day road trip that took us through new york, new jersey, pennsylvania, ohio, indiana and illinois. sounds like a lot but it wasn...
our gardens were really good to us this year.
poppy’s THIRD birthday was last friday (august 19th). we can hardly believe it. she is the awesomesauce. favorite activities: reading, painting/drawing, digging in the sandbox, playing with dup...
my father in law passed away a week ago today. lymphoma, that voracious, insidious bastard of a cancer, finally took him to the other side. he was a strong man, spiritually and physically. he was gre...
little p, of course. irreplaceable, she is. and the fresh strawberries we picked yesterday, at a farm in shelton, ct. indescribable, they are.
i’m gardening again this year, in my patio container garden, and things are coming along great. this year we’ve implemented the SFG system and built a couple of narrow 6′ x 1′...
we had a busy, busy weekend… friday: i took that all-day free-motion quilting class i mentioned in a previous post, and man, it was a LOT of fun. my stitches don’t look that fabulous yet ...
several years ago (probably about 5 years now) i made the word “love” using soft letter pillows. sometime back, probably about 2.5 to 3 years ago (when poppy was but a wee little thing), ...
(image via green at heart) how flipping cool are these handmade braided rugs by green at heart? each one is made from a plethora of recycled tees. i remember seeing these a while back on the interweb...
i started playing around with instagram on my iPhone yesterday…popped off a couple pictures around the house. on top: thinking about making a zig-zag quilt. made a simple sketch on graph paper ...
a (candid) family portrait (of sorts), taken by our very dear friend, aaron fineman, on mother’s day. thank you, aaron. we love it!
pete, poppy and i spent a lot of time in our plot at the community garden this weekend, and when the bulk of the work was done, later in the day yesterday, we escaped to the city. where temps were go...
fact: westchester county, new york, and fairfield county, connecticut are wealthy enclaves, but are not exactly really hot spots for the young and creative. source: i live here (in fairfield). seriou...
(images via wary meyers) i love these vintage grocery store window adverts found over in the wary meyers shop. how killer would they look flattened out/mounted and framed, and hung in a sort of retro...
in recent weeks, i got a bug in my butt to move and improve things around our place. maybe i was inspired by the newness and rebirth of spring, or by the fact that we’ve signed on to live in ou...
little darlings, it’s been a long, cold [lonely] winter… …and so long since i’ve been here! *** everyone talks about how beautiful new england is in the fall, with all the cha...
catching up again. the last two gorgeous gals to be featured in my BUST fashion nation/looks column were rakia reynolds and roxanne carter. both stunningly beautiful, incredibly creative and smart as...
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