November 26, 2005
It's been a busy month. With the help of my sons, the Yarnitorium is no more, all its contents having been moved either to the attic or to my sewing room. Here is Zachary up in the attic trying to...
November 20, 2005
It's been a while since I wrote anything here (a couple of weeks?) but I'm alive and well, or even better! Remember the old Annie movie when Daddy Warbucks and company found out that they "got" Annie? They danced around...
September 30, 2005
Finally, after at least three weeks, I am starting to feel like a normal person again. Who knew that I would inwardly celebrate when I felt capable of doing my laundry? Who knew that I yearned to be able to...
September 05, 2005
It's Labor Day in the U.S. Funny name for a holiday, don't you think? Some of us take it literally. The Gray has volunteered to shampoo the carpet today-- I will not object. My mother taught me that the Correct...
August 30, 2005
Observation: I got up WAY too early this morning. Why? Because I wondered what an equivalent expression to "mutually reclusive" might be. Yes, once I start thinking, even about stupid silly stuff like that, I can't sleep. "Together alone"? "Collectively...
August 25, 2005
It is one thing when your house is in disarray. It is another thing altogether when your house is in disarray, your computer is threatening to crash, and your mental state is not all it should be. Somehow I navigated...
August 23, 2005
Life is challenging right now and I may not be posting as often for a week or so. The first sleeve of the first Mermaid is essentially complete except for connecting it to itself at the side seam. The dusty...
August 11, 2005
Thursday mornings are noisy at Happy Holler. It's garbage day. Back in my growing up years, garbage day meant the garbage man drove through the alley and you hardly knew he had been there. But here, garbage day happens three...
August 08, 2005
When in Galway, I walked right up to some huge swans and took their picture. They hang out in the bay and despite the beauty of the bird they have exceptionally big ugly feet! And behind our B&B in Clifden...
July 10, 2005
It's amazing what Worry will do to you. Even though statistically you know that a reason for worry really isn't likely to exist, you do anyway, especially when you are a mother and the worry concerns one of your offspring....
July 08, 2005
As it happened, I did not get to play dollhouse yesterday. I heard about the bombings in London and thought how horrible, then about 1.2 seconds later I thought huh, my son is in Europe and I'm not sure where...
May 12, 2005
Still recovering from the last trip, I'm trying to get organized for the next one which, thankfully, has nothing to do with fiber festivals. Sherah's wedding is the day after tomorrow. I'm going to be her maid of honor and...
February 25, 2005
In the small restaurant in the Gig Harbor Inn there is often not enough tables for each party of friends to have their own, so we often just share tables with total strangers. One day at lunch, Vanessa and I...
February 24, 2005
The banquet at Gig Harbor featured Judith MacKenzie speaking about her textile travels in Spain. Always a fascinating speaker, she showed slides that brought back memories of my time there, and so at last I will resume my unnumbered list...
December 17, 2004
Today I show you the Carolina Lily square, the simplest one I've done yet. But in a sampler quilt, I think it's important to mix simplicity with intricacy just as it is important to have a nice balance of color...
December 14, 2004
These days I wake to and dwell in perpetual twilight; we are shunned by the sun and surrounded by the stereo of rain and gutters dripping. The dissonant offbeat drum of hammers next door at the Persian's house is jarring...
December 09, 2004
Since I don't have a lot of interesting things about fiber arts to discuss today, I thought I'd join the bandwagon of 100 things. I have done this previously, but lost my copy in the crash, so I thought I'd...
November 06, 2004
The Gray is back and suddenly coffee has reappeared on my nightstand when I wake up. I found the magic button on the fireplace that starts it up every time (a loose connection), the kitchen was clean this morning,...
November 04, 2004
I feel better now. Instead of watching the news last night I watched two episodes of The Golden Girls. They never fail to crack me up. I used to think of myself as half Blanche and half Bea Arthur's character,...
October 21, 2004
Yesterday's entry is what happens when Madame gets no sleep, entertained throughout the verrrry long night by the narrated snories of the Gray. She is forced to divert her attention from his masterful plots by thinking about other things and...
October 19, 2004
We've gone from our season of glorious summertime straight into the lugubrious bummertime in just a matter of a week. Sunshine to shadow; energizing to enervating. From now until next June we will have an endless parade of rain,...
May 07, 2003
I came home early from work after going by the doc's office for the usual "you are sick" diagnosis. I figured a good remedy would be to stop by Weaving Works on the way home. While there, I met a...
May 06, 2003
Head pounds, tummy frowns, muscles scream, lungs wheeze, sinus drains, neck complains, eyes close in sleepy doze, I sing the blues and thats the News of Now in Happy Holler. Ok, so did I read my book on the trip?...
May 01, 2003
I just realized exactly how early I will have to arise tomorrow in order to make it to the airport 2 hours prior to a 7:30 a.m. flight. It won't be pretty. Depending on how I feel when I get...
April 10, 2003
The shawl border is complete!! I won't bore you with another photo, it looks the same as the last one, only longer and without a needle still attached to one end! Isn't it always the case that by the time...
April 07, 2003
The center scallop of the mourning shawl border has two points, and I have finished the first point, so the halfway point has been attained. Last night a bunch of tanks rolled into downtown Baghdad and took a palace or...
April 02, 2003
Yes, yes, yes I know I've been remiss in blogging my knitting and especially have I been non-entertaining lately. Chalk it up to fear of really doing some unredeemable thing to the blog and website. For example, I succeeded in...
March 22, 2003
My little foray into producing a Raven received mixed reviews from this critic. The legs were too skinny to cut out, so he appears to be wading in the water. I've just pinned him on for now until I...
March 21, 2003
My daughter Sherah has been in town this week and last night we took her and her boyfriend Brendan to eat at Frankie's, a great little family-run restaurant in Redmond. If you ever go there, be sure to check out...
March 10, 2003
I never knew getting older could be SO much fun! Yes, yet another Sunday Soiree was held at my house, this time it combined a great movie -- Best In Show -- with great friends and a wonderful Northwest Salmon...
I never knew getting older could be SO much fun! Yes, yet another Sunday Soiree was held at my house, this time it combined a great movie -- Best In Show -- with great friends and a wonderful Northwest Salmon...
