Posted in Motherhood, Weather Geek, tagged beach, family, ocean, surfing on June 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We took our visiting family on a trip to the ocean today. Our favorite WA beach is Westhaven State Park near Westport. It’s a great surfing beach, although they have to wear full wetsuits all year. We love watching the surfers and playing in the sand. The best thing I noticed today was a young woman in a bikini [...]
Posted in Gardening, Weather Geek, tagged Gardening, plants, seeds, vegetables, weather on June 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
With a brief break between rain storms, I planted the vegetable starts Mogs and I bought at the farmer’s market on Thursday. I have had terrible luck with my lettuce, arugula and spinach seeds this year. Perhaps the seeds are too old or due to the colder and wetter than usual spring, but I only [...]
Posted in Motherhood, Weather Geek, What I've Been Reading, You Must Be Kidding!, tagged blogging, crafting, Motherhood, quilting on April 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I started the Whole Cloth Designs blog on October 23, 2007. Well, 6 months have passed and I’ve had 10,000 visitors! My goodness, that is a big number. What started as a whim of a thought, “Hell, I’ll try to make a blog today” has turned into a wonderful part of my routine. A couple [...]
Posted in Motherhood, Weather Geek, You Must Be Kidding!, tagged hummingbirds, illness, Motherhood on March 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Rotavirus riot
That’s what our house is currently experiencing. We haven’t been tested or anything, but the signs and systems are very much present. I’ll spare you the details, sufficed it to say we have had a rough week. We hadn’t had any illness in the house in the past four months until–BLAMMO–now.
Beyond the gauzy film [...]
Posted in Gardening, I Am A Sewing Machine, Motherhood, Weather Geek, tagged color, cotton, Gardening, Motherhood, sewing, sunshine on February 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
After a winter of grey rain and a limited linen palette for my crafts, I am totally craving color. We are having a sunny weekend, to which we are so thankful for. We took Mogs to a neighborhood park and she went a little nuts. She was throwing herself down the slide as fast as she [...]
Posted in Making Art with the Little Lady, Weather Geek, tagged art, craft, family, photography on January 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Although it has been so sunny beautiful outside, it was also 18 degrees this morning. Mogs and I stayed in and made a bouquet of egg carton tulips. I’ve missed out on 25 years of playing with pipe cleaners, so I’ll use any excuse to dig them out now. Mogs is interested in our camera and helped [...]
Posted in Weather Geek, tagged Photos, sunshine. walking, winter on January 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Living in the northwest, you get pretty used to drizzly rain. Our average annual rainfall of 52 inches isn’t an exaggeration. Even though many of us chose to live here, by mid-January we all get a little itchy for sun. Luckily we have been blessed with several days of full-on sunshine this week. Mogs and [...]
Posted in My Art Projects, Weather Geek, Ye Olde Etsy Shoppe, tagged art, farmers, flood, fundraiser, Ye Olde Etsy Shoppe on January 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Hello all,
I have listed a small painting in my Etsy shop that is a fundraiser for our flooded organic farmer friends from Lewis County. “The Flood” is a 6″ x 4″ original watercolor painting.
On December 3, 2007 a massive rainstorm pummeled western Washington state. Farmers from neighboring Lewis County were devastated. Many of our locally [...]
Posted in My Art Projects, Weather Geek, You Must Be Kidding!, tagged embroidery, I Am A Sewing Machine, stitches, symbols, Weather Geek on December 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Posted in My Art Projects, Weather Geek, tagged art, drawing, felt, instructions, wool on December 11, 2007 | No Comments »
To begin, you’ll need a stash of wool roving. Peace Fleece has amazing wool to choose from in a wide variety of colors, plus they’re just a great company to support.
Next, selecting the colors and pull out the all-critical sushi rolling mat
Take small tufts of the wool and lay them on the mat in a [...]
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