Did you ever...

...just want to sit and create something?  Its tough when you don't have inspiration or direction or any ideas.

This is why I like to make cards.  Nothing has to match.  Thread, scraps, etc.  Its all a heaping load of mis-matched colors and textures etc. 

But it always just looks so neat!

Don't be surprised if everyone I know gets cards for Christmas...



Off to take a walk in the rain with my roommate.

"Do you share the same sense of defeat?

Have you realized all the things you'll never be?
Ideals turn to resentment, open minds close up with cynicism
I've got no judgement for you
Come on and ache with me."
~ Against Me!

Something went right

So I saw this idea the other day.  For those of you who don't click the links, its an idea for a reusable muslin coffee filter.  I even showed it to my brother, Andre', who recently wrote back and asked if I had made it yet.

Well, Andre'....here it is!!!!

It doesn't look like much, I know.  And although it looks a little wonky and unstraight, it actually is pretty darn symmetrical.

In my coffee pot....

I brewed water as a trial run...just because I didn't want a coffee fiasco on my hands.

During the coffee trial...

And done!!!!!

MMM....coffeee....



For all of you who were wondering - it works awesomely!  No difference in the taste to the coffee either.  Next time I make one it will fit more to my actual pot.  I modeled this one based on the filters I was using, and I don't think I ever realized that the filters are more of a SUGGESTION of what the inside of your coffee pot is shaped like than anything else.  If that makes sense.  To get rid of the grounds, I'll just wash them into my garbage disposal.  (Sorry, brother, I don't have a compost bin.  If coffee is even compostable).

Oh, and a sneak peak of my niece Emily's birthday present... (yes, I AM one of those people)....

Attie and I are currently munching on cream cheese garlic biscuits that I made last night (I added more garlic than called for, which made them pretty darn delicious).  Then its off to create something else before I start my 50 hour work-week. 

"I woke today, suddenly nothing happened.  But in my dream, I slew the dragon." ~ Colin Hay

Time

Its time to make some biscuits!

"All's quiet, except for this song.
So maybe while I'm not together I can feel like I'm not alone.
And somewhere off in the distance, rapidly advancing, is an onslaught of sorts.
Young sirens wail in a skewed sense of glory.
And the lions in the cages roar at the memory of fight.
And there's a joy, a joy in all I can see.
A joy, in every possibility."
~ Against Me!

Possibilities

A stack of freshly-washed new and new-to-me fabric.

Thirteen inches to be exact.

"I don't wanna defeat you

I don't wanna be sad

I don't wanna forgive you

I don't wanna be mad
'cause it's always say what you wanted to say
as you're walking away
and I can't take this disappointment again
and i'm waiting..."
~ Lagwagon

Torture

There's nothing quite as peaceful and relaxing after a tough week at work than torturing your dog...

"The moon hides behind the clouds

The foothills don’t make a sound

The clocks tired arms continue to spin round

I hold my breath under this ocean of silence

Until I put an end to this mind of violence"

~ The Briggs

A weekend with a friend

My friend Katie came from Pennsylvania to visit me this past weekend.  You seriously can't know how cool I feel this summer, with friends actually paying to see ME.  Its astounding and humbling, really.

We went to Pike Place.  Now that I know how to get there, I'll go anytime I can. 

That's Katie on the left, ordering a bracelet for her daughter.

Our view at lunchtime.

The mean streets of Seattle.

A bakery in Poulsbo

The only picture in which she's not turning from the camera.  Don't hate me, Katie!

Back to reality and work now.  I'm going to have a super-long work week.  And I'm fighting a stomach-bug.  Oi.

But I just received another Fabric.com purchase, plus, my mom sent me all the fabric I aquired in July in Pennsylvania.  I need to pull out the sewing machine and get busy on my niece's birthday present projects.  And Christmas isn't too far off.

Have I mentioned how much I dislike this new blogger?  Another oi.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things that make you go..*gag*

Raw chicken livers:

Cooked chicken livers:

Cooked chicken livers blended with egg and other random kitchen ingredients:

As my coworker says, my love for Atticus apparently knows no bounds if I'm willing to gag my way through making him chicken liver biscuits.

Some days the happy puppy routine is worth it. 

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt