A Crunchy Life

Keep the finished projects going, that is. Pictured above in various stages of progress is a tea towel from The first Alabama Chanin book, the Alabama Stitch Book, made with a little stencil I cut out this spring. It is a gift for L4′s teacher, along with the chocolate in the last photo that she insisted [...]

Whether it was taking a design from sketch to reality. . . . . . or finally finishing a sweater for me that I’ve been knitting since January, it was a week for following things through to the end. I’ve continued to work on my the idea of “if not now, when?” in my daily [...]

Have you ever experienced tunnel vision?  That place your mental vision attaches to and focuses in on one object or idea?  I was in that place last week, with my mind’s eye focused on all the things that seemed to be going wrong in daily life.  If you’ve ever been there, you know if feels [...]

I have this bandana from my teenage years. It went camping and hiking with me, and I’ve worn it in and over my hair in many different situations over the years. I’ve worn it do death, you could say. I’ve been wearing it with its ever increasing hole for several years now. When I washed [...]

Making space is something I work on a lot. You too? I work on making space in my physical world through decluttering, organizing, reorganizing, purging. I especially seem to engage in physical space making in the spring. It feels fitting with the season, a literal new beginning for the space around me, just like the [...]

I have one paper left to grade and then I’m done, Done, DONE for the semester! This afternoon I took a quilt, a dog, and a book outdoors for about half an hour to lay in the sun and get warm after grading all day.  It was so good to just lay there and soak [...]

That sounds nice, doesn’t it?  Balance, like I was finding peace and tranquility, right? In actuality, my balance was one between little bouts of freak-out and finding my breath and being present.  There may have been more middle ground, but to be honest, the week is a bit of a blur. Why, you ask? It [...]

  It’s been sitting patiently for many months now, waiting for me to pick it up again.  That happened this past week.  I’ve stitching away on it in spare moments here and there, when other work needs to be put aside or can’t be done because of time and place.  I’m in an interesting place [...]

Last week I found myself getting back to some things I’ve been missing (yoga class, my seedlings) and figuring out how to catch up and let go and not feel guilty for the things I haven’t been “doing.” Being with my sweet girl while she was home sick helped with that.   Part of that [...]

I recently got news that I was accepted as a vendor in the Mayday Underground 2013 Spring show! So, amidst day job, getting back from a wonderful visit with my BFF, her spouse, and adorable new baby, I added gearing up for this show to my practice plate.  It feels so good to make in this [...]