Little guy

Sometimes there is nothing to do but create a little creature. Like a tiny goat.

Don't Forget

The etsy storefront is on sale, but only until April 30. Just a reminder.
Click here to go shopping.

Tiny love letter

This is just a note to say nothing, really, other than I like what I learned about you today.

Olfactory Notes

Sometimes it begins with a love story,and sometimes it just begins and love happens to be involved.

This scent is poetic and dreamy and all the things people who have a deep respect for whimsy and romance need to smell.

Felicitaions, Monsieur Demachy. You have me dreaming of what it must be like to be a perfumer now.

Sale

Hello all -

All purses and hats in my etsy store are on sale from now until April 30th. To see the lowered prices and snag a last minute warm-weathered frock, click here.

All one can do

Resumes sent; letters written; wishes spoken; prayers offered; attitude adjusted. All by 11 a.m. Now, c'mon universe, throw some magic to match the efforts, if you please.

Addendum

Actions speak louder than words, yes, but it may be more important that your actions match your words.

sun

Watching the sky and thinking thinking thinking I see the clouds very close to covering the sun, again, and then I notice them lean a little to the left and travel on, and I sigh with deep gratitude that it shall stay bright for at least a few minutes longer.

little bits of research sparkle

from an interview read whilst doing research. From beloved children's novelist, Kate DiCamillo:


"Also, I suffered from chronic pneumonia at a time when geographical cures were still being prescribed. I was born near Philadelphia and, after my fifth winter in an oxygen tent, the doctor gave my parents this advice: take her to a warmer climate. We moved to central Florida. There I absorbed the speech patterns and cadences and nuances of life in a small southern town. I did not know it at the time, but Florida (and pneumonia) gave me a great gift: a voice in which to tell my stories."

When in doubt make an elephant

(The things that sometimes come out of our mouths ...)

" ... Well, maybe none of my anger matters. Maybe I should just try to keep the faith and concentrate on the good feeling about the outcome, and go for a walk and knit an elephant."

The power of 10

It seems the first full month of spring has me list-making, fact-checking, story-telling and goal-orienting. Tomorrow: first 5K of the season, so it's off to a great start.

Something else to accomplish: selling 10 knitted items before April 30. So, if you'd like to be the owner of this little guy:


Or this romantic handbag:


Or a flower pin to celebrate the season:


Go to my etsy store sometime soon and pick up something sweet ...

Secrets meant to be discovered. Eventually.

Listening to the happiest of music looking at the happiest of photos, she draws elephants in her journal pages and thinks about the zoo, smiling, when she finds a picture the friend who gave her the notebook drew. It was a secret, apparently, not to be discovered until the pages were open.

Blue ink pen. Two stick-figure girls in triangle dress on a beach with waves, sun, crab and palm tree. The only picture dear friend ever draws.

There they are, on a beach, smiling. Happy.