Steampunkery: Robot Children

Little Sunshine is designing and executing a series of redwork robots (say:  roe-buts) for me.  She does wonderful, evocative line drawings of robots and cityscapes–I have a folder full of them.  They translate beautifully into redwork, and she’s getting to be a very skillful needlewoman.  If you’d like a copy of one of these, drop me [...]

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Gold Diggers of 2009

Here’s Frankie again–with her new basket, bell, and flower.  I decided against the $60 basket at the bike shop, and went to Michael’s instead, where I picked up this perfect lined basket for$15 on clearance!  Rushed home and whipped up a flower (tutorial here) for the front.

It’ll be a diamond bracelet next.  I just can’t [...]

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Sweetness

These are Arnheim biscuits.  I found the recipe in a book called Pot on the Fire, by John and Matt Thorne.  It’s an idiosyncratic book, and it rubbed me the wrong way–I’m definitely not what Havi Brooks would call its Right Person.  On the other hand, this recipe made it all worthwhile.  No less a [...]

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Summer

Voila our hammock–a summertime necessity for me.  It’s a fabulous hammock, which will hold me and Tuxedo Boy at the same time, or Little Sunshine and a stack of library books, or me all by myself. 
The thing about hammocks is that they make cloudwatching, treetop gazing, and involuntary napping practically compulsory.   We’ve had great clouds this summer–cumulus [...]

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Isn’t she adorable?

Meet my absolute dream rabbit, Frankie.  We’re going steady–and every Saturday, we ride down to the Farmer’s Market to buy bread from Wheatberries.  When I can afford it, I’m going to get panniers and a bell and a cupholder and a basket.  She deserves it, don’t you think?
It’s been at least 20 years since I [...]

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Anniversary

Our wedding anniversary is this week, and how nice for us that we’re still married–at least in California.  (Mr. President, if you’re just dying to defend marriage, why not consider defending mine?  For a change, you know.) We’ve got a dinner date, which I’m really looking forward to.
Fun things we’ve been doing:  making our own yogurt [...]

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