Entries Tagged as ‘green’

12 May, 2009

Whole Earth Festival 2009

We started with the first cherries of the season at the farmer’s market.  We bought a big bag and munched on them all day in the warm sun.

There was music and dancing on the quad, we crashed on a blanket and ate more cherries and shared Carrie’s garlic fries.

There were booths with clothes of all [...]

16 December, 2008

The Upcycled Fingerless Gloves

By popular demand, here are the fingerless gloves with the stockings.  They where made with the extra sleeve ends by cutting a 1 inch snip about 1-1.5 inches down from the edging. I cut them so the seams of the sleeves ended up on the palm side. Now they are keeping my hands warm while [...]

15 December, 2008

Upcycled Sweater X-mas Stocking: A Tutorial

Well it is that time of year again, time to hang up those stocking in hopes that someone will come along in the middle of the night and fill them with goodies.
Last year I threw away the ratty acrylic $0.99 cent stockings my BF had promising that I would make new ones worthy of actually [...]

24 September, 2007

"Artisan" Bread

Well is have been a bit since I have managed to sit down and blog a bit. We have been busy with visiting parents, getting the BF unpacked and the apartment cleaned up. But this are now calming down and I am making the time again.
The violets are blooming again, I am always amazed everyday [...]

12 August, 2007

Sunday Kinda Love

It is Sunday, a lazy one at that. I have been spending the day doing a bit of this and that. This morning I got up and made scones, here is a picture that looks great but I am afraid to say they didn’t turn out as yummy as they look. The first one [...]

31 July, 2007

Greening Things Up Around Here

This blog started out as mainly a place for me to talk about my knitting, to try to connect more with other knitters out there, so far things are kinda slow but that is my own fault really for not posting more (I am working on it, see 3 blogs is one month!!!). But I [...]