Room to Grow II

Here's the big girl helping to clean up her new room:


Tree details:


The view above the bed:




Birds, birds, birds.










Finishing touches:

Room to Grow

Here's the project of the last few weeks, with my dear husband working at all hours to get it finished...

First, the room before - just some paint samples on the walls:



Here's the dutch door that leads into my office with blackboard paint for doodles:




And here I am proudly displaying part of the reason we need that "room to grow":


The preliminary tree sketch:








Pictures of the finished project forthcoming...

Finished knits

The birthday sweater:

Knitted squid pair - the second is for the new baby.


Asymmetrical cardigan courtesy of a free Ravelrey pattern. Buttons were a going-out-of-business special.

A shrug for Dear Daughter on those brisk fall days that don't quite call for a full sweater.

More to come... and hopefully some actual stories and updates as well.

Growing

A beautiful day for a walk into the garden:




Feeling a bit like Mr. McGregor:






Still getting pattypans (or scallop squash if you prefer):



Beets, beets:






"Volunteer" tomatoes under the rotating compost bin:




A beautiful heirloom pumpkin... but tiny.




Mystery squash:





A volunteer butternut that took up housekeeping on the side of the big compost bin:



And what I've been working on:

where we're at

Wowie! Six months has passed and while I hadn't quite forgotten about this blog hanging out here in cyberspace, it's obviously been low on my list of things-to-do.

What has been at the top of said to-do list:

Dear Daughter - so many changes. She's 16 months old now. Talking, walking, running, eating every fruity thing in sight - leaving her father and I to wonder if she isn't somehow part monkey or other arboreal creature.

Graduate School - the applying to and eventually being accepted. I can now gladly report that I will begin graduate school in the fall in hopes of becoming your friendly neighborhood librarian.

Growing People - there's another one on the way. Due around the beginning of next year. That has taken a lot out of me lately. Well, it likely has a little to do with chasing around an energetic toddler as well.

Not to mention: gardening (and what a great garden it is - more on that later), cooking (trying - sometimes failing miserably- new things), loving the chickens, natural harvest of wild berries that are starting to come in, lots of swimming, yoga, and scrambling for quiet moments to myself... I think I'll go grab one now.

Putting in

New Year

I guess my resolutions started early. I've been making sure that my daughter is the priority of my life and attempting not to "just get one more thing done." So, some other things have fallen by the wayside. Namely, this here blog and updating it regularly.

There were a few things to share here, but some would have involved divulging Christmas secrets so I thought they could wait.


Here is Squid Delicious:

A knitted and felted squid made from a pattern courtesy of Berroco.

Here is one of the Christmas ornaments that family received as gifts - a handmade Christmas - it was a robin's nest with eggs to represent each of the members of our little group. I knitted it using a modified egg pattern (to shrink them down) and a bowl pattern (also shrunk) and then felted - again with Berroco yarn.


Here is Lucy's Larry the Canary:


And Mr. Cardinal:
And the largest in a series of cubes:

Simple, but she loves them.

We had a wonderful first Christmas with our dear Lucy, modest though it was. Our families were extremely generous and Lucy got lots of books! I can't wait to share some of her new reads and music with you. I've been enjoying reading to her more than ever and we're working on French and Spanish.