Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Old Friend
Today I made a fresh pot of coffee and headed up to my studio to attempt to learn to use this fancy sewing machine I recently acquired. I even have the manual. Little E.T. wanted to help.
I wanted to try to make this skirt with this beautiful fabric, the most beautiful fabric ever:
After several failed attempts to get this fancy machine to produce a simple straight stitch or a simple zig zag, I threw the manual across the room and dug out my old friend, a gift from my mom when I turned 21.
Sorry fancy sewing machine, you just don't have that old je ne sais quois.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Saturday, January 8, 2011
On the road again
In January of 2008, T. and I took 5 days off work each, packed up few items in the car, took some cash out of the bank, left Milwaukee headed for Albuquerque, NM. We had no plan or itinerary, just a simple goal: drive on as much of old Route 66 as possible until Albuquerque and then come back. We saw a lot of abandoned gas stations, motels, trucks and shanties along the way. Highlights of the trip include:
- for me, Southwestern Oklahoma. It was all blue cloudless skies and golden fields going on and on forever.
- While it may not seem "highlight" worthy, the bout of food poisoning I got somewhere in Oklahoma
(I'm blaming it on a Subway at a gas station) that caused me to pass out in the bathroom of a motel room in Amarillo, TX in the middle of the night followed by 12 hours of vomiting. Except for it really didn't seem that bad because I was on vacation. - Everything. Yes.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
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