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Treasure pouches, part 2

My goal was to weave the 3 silk scarves in 1 day. HAH! I’m now on day 3 and still have 1 scarf to weave.

One day I spent 4 hours mowing the lawn & wacking the weeds, plus other necessary tasks, so I only got one scarf woven that day.

The next day? […]

This & That

For the last few days I’ve spent my time weaving & weeding, and enjoying them both. All that construction took me away from both of these activities, both of which bring me joy.

Not only did I finish JJ’s short wrap, I only have 55″ left of NB’s to weave tomorrow! The weft for […]

All rolled up

As planned, today I got JK & QW’s wraps pressed & labelled. I sent out the PayPal invoices and received my payment immediately. So I went to package the wraps for mailing.

Uh oh. I’m out of bags for my baby wraps. Fortunately I had already washed a bunch of pillowcases, but I had […]

Bee helpful

Sometimes help arrives from really unexpected places. On Monday morning I followed my usual routine: roll out of bed, throw on clothes, put on my sneakers and go for a brisk two-mile walk.

That is, I started my routine. When I put on my 2nd/left sneaker, things changed dramatically. Unbeknownst to me, a […]

Mimosa memories

My only experience with mimosas is the drink made from orange juice & champagne. In other parts of the world mimosas are beautiful wildflowers like the above photo. Similar to native plants in many places, mimosas are apparently disappearing from the wild. So JK wanted to capture one of the joys of her childhood […]