coffee is poured, hot cereal is cooking, biscuits to be baked once the market opens (i’m out of butter).

Enjoy your day my mama friends.

afternoons have been sunny in our yard.

stylin in some Jack Sprats;

i meant to pack a nice 50mm for some sweet portraits but i grabbed the fish eye on accident. A fun and pleasant surprise. it was a gorgeous park, picnic, duck pond, bunny feeding, beach day with friends.

this sums up the day (and makes it too);

i’m not particularly attracted to photographs of livestock and pets but when i’m with Little A, his enthusiasm inspires me and so here are a number of shots from our afternoon spent at Maplewood Farm once again. The kid goats were so adorable! young, playful, awkward, soft. That new little lamb was delightfully soft too. We spent some time cuddling with her.

The babes were to put to bed, the husbands called home and the mamas sent out. woowee freedom! We literally skipped across Main street anticipating wine, dessert and uninterrupted conversations. Already the evening was perfect and then Nina Simone…well anyone who knows me in my free and easy wandering days knows just the mood Nina means to me. It was perfect.

love this gal as much as i love blackberry creme brule from Habit.

Here’s just a sample of what i’ve posted in the shop.

sweet gals filled with softest lambs wool;

bunting flags in hip modern colors;

lots of new Waldorf inspired wool felt birthday crowns ;

picnic place mats ideal for impromptu snack stops;

Thank you for your patience while i begin to upload.

i tend to have great expectations with shows and while i ended quite far from my rather unrealistic goal, i did pretty well and enjoyed the event, chatting, connecting, hanging out with crafty folk. it was a good day. i now have many items to add to the shop. i’ll try and photograph things and get them up in the shop soon (eye pillows not included);

Little Bird Designs and her rockin’ pincushions. We’re planning a button making party one of these days. So cute. You should have seen her happy empty table at the end of the show. Yay!

A sweet duo of cute things = Smeeta & Mintage Designs;

My got craft neighbors Demo Derby = super cute hip family and some yummy yarn all color coordinated in baskets. delicious.

Alright so let’s hope etsy satisfies me until Winter shows. These shows really are a lot of work. Thank you Andrea and Rob.

Thank you also to Claire & Sandra (the funnest baby sitters). Little A hollered “you can leave now mommy” as he ran to answer the door at 7;30am and when i returned at 5;30pm to find him splashing in the bath he immediately frowned, ” i don’t want you to be home”. This actually makes me very happy. Indendence for both of us.

Hope to see the locals here;

ok so i always panic before a show thinking that i won’t have enough stock but here i am with a ridiculous amount of goods to fit on a 6ft table. i’m saving some for a shop update early next week.

it seems this is a popular flickr shot. i like it too.

i pulled off the highway down this road as i have so very many times before. The sun on the water prompted me (you can’t see it in the photo). i opened the car door, snapped a photo, was about to move elsewhere for another when i heard MEOOOOOOW. We found ourselves a kitten, about 6 weeks old huddled under a sage brush. He wasn’t at all wild and after getting him home we realized he was quite starving. My friend found one of his brothers the day before, unfortunately on the highway. He didn’t make it across. We gather the kittens were abandoned and left out there, possibly during the snow storm. Poor little kitty. Little A has been asking me for a kitty or a bunny for over a month now. Papa is allergic so this furry friend will be Little A’s kitty when he visits grandma’s house in the Okanagan. His name is Happy.

i grew up with about 30 cats. Strays came and went, the mama’s had babies in my bed, under my dresser, up the hall, in the ceiling?!…i loved having them around and playing with them as a kid but when we moved during high school i wonder where they all went? mom? i had one cat when i first moved to the city. He was the one i cared for, really loved and mourned when he was hit by a car. Now i feel quite done with pets. i hate cat hair on my clothes and kitty litter is disgusting but they sure are sweet things when they belong to someone else.

The Okanagan, once my home and native land, sums up a part of me and feeds my soul so completely. The asparagus, desert back roads, wild horses, deer in the yard, fruitful orchards & vineyards, summer warmth and especially the shiny folk all have a part in beckoning my return again and again. i’ve always felt that one day i would live here again but as years pass i feel myself growing further away from my attachments there and i return to the city satisfied and grateful. These past few days i’ve spent some good moments with the most special friends, the unconditional kind. i’d like to scoop them up and settle them in my neighborhood, but, well, that is selfish and i can love them deeply from here in the city until peach season when i must visit again.

Ack. This was killing me it was so damn cute…the laundry game. Gosh grandma is brilliant with her games. This was day 2. We even had an 8 year old boy playing for awhile;