October 8, 2009
Many Indian homes contain a Pooja Room– a small room used for prayer and meditation.
S and I decided to create a pooja room about a year ago. Our energies have recently been focused elsewhere, but I wanted to share a picture of the ceiling.
I made this last spring with some repurposed Dupioni silk– I originally had a different ceiling idea in mind, but it didn’t work out. Some more of the silk became matching cushions and pillows.
June 25, 2009
Sorry things have been so quiet over here. There are several reasons:
1. I got a camera
It’s a Sony A100 DSLR and it’s launched a nascent desire to take up photography. If you don’t see much of me here, I’m probably over in Flickerland.
2. Artomatic
I’ve been spending many of my evenings at Artomatic, a month-long arts festival with nine floors of visual art plus countless free movies, music, and other performances. This year the venue is down the street from where I work, so I’ve been making frequent trips there.
3. I got a puppy!
Her name is Lakshmi (the Hindu goddess of wealth) and she’s a 6-month old miniature Schnauzer. As you can imagine, it’s hard to justify doing anything besides playing with her.
Nevertheless, I do have some new crafts to share (including one that I’m wearing right now!) so stay tuned.
May 8, 2009
I’m headed up to NJ to spend this weekend with two of my favorite ladies, my mother and my grandmother!
Hope everyone has a lovely Mother’s Day!
April 16, 2009
Thought I’d share a story I heard on the BBC news this morning– if you have the right connections you could make a pretty penny off your old sewing machine!
April 13, 2009
Hope everyone had a nice Easter weekend!
January 28, 2009
To celebrate the first snowy day of 2009!
January 5, 2009
Lately my cooking and crafting adventures have not been very bloggable. There were the seven tiny sweater ornaments that I did not have a chance to photograph before giving them away as Christmas presents. Another Christmas project was the organic peanut butter dog treats– they looked awfully cute packaged in their bakery-style boxes, but I’ve mentioned them here before.
Lately I’ve been into making scrapbooks, which are hard to show off unless you have the patience to scan the pages (I’m pretty sure I don’t).
Though they require no real artistic skill, other than an eye for design, I’ve been enjoying the process of scrapbooking. It’s a great way to preserve a vacation or special occasion, and they make wonderful gifts.
I hope to be back soon with some more interesting projects!
December 6, 2008
November 12, 2008
Actually, quirkyknitgirl tagged me on this over a month ago. I usually don’t do memes but my blog’s been lean on content lately. So here are the requisite random and/or weird facts about myself:
1. I do not own any of the following:
Sneakers
Shorts
Sweatpants
Regular t-shirts
Baseball caps
Pajamas
2. In the past month I have spent more nights in a hotel room than I have in my own home, and I have spent more workdays on a ship than in an office.
3. I prefer riding in the backseat to riding shotgun.
4. When I lived alone, I didn’t have a TV or a microwave. The girl I was dating became frustrated that she couldn’t do “normal” things in my apartment, so she gave me a TV for my birthday and a microwave for Christmas. Both appliances sit in the basement unused today.
5. Given the choice between ice cream and tofu, I will invariably choose the tofu.
6. I hate when people ask me questions like, “What’s your favorite TV show/movie/music/food/etc?” I don’t watch enough TV to have a favorite show, I haven’t seen enough movies to have a favorite film, my music tastes are obscure and hard to place into a defined genre, and I like so many different foods that being asked to choose just one fills me with intense anxiety. One of these days I should develop a list of stock answers to these things so people don’t think I’m strange.
7. I won’t ask people what they do for a living. Since many people are unemployed, working illegally, or working at a job they don’t enjoy or are not particularly proud of, I think it’s impolite to inquire. Besides, there’s more to a person than their job, and those are the things I would usually rather hear about! I realize this makes me an anomaly in DC.
October 6, 2008
Yesterday my flight to Mobile was overbooked and I got bumped to a later flight. As a result, I was stuck in the airport at Charlotte with five hours to kill. Since I had two books, three knitting projects, my homework, my laptop, and a free meal voucher from the airline, the time passed pretty quickly. I spent a good chunk of time online, shopping on Etsy for birthday presents. Here’s what I got:
For S: A vintage Scorpio necklace from 19Moons. We’re both Scorpios and like to celebrate the fact, so I thought this was perfect. Check out the seller’s other items– I really like her steampunk jewelery with the exposed gears and other mechanical parts.
This beautiful necklace from lauralidesigns is for my sister. The sterling silver filigree leaf is made from an actual Cottonwood leaf, and the double strand necklace is made from freshwater pearls. The seller has lots of similar items in her shop– it was hard choosing just one!
