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Looks like Whiskey had a hard time staying in her bed last night and fell out:

Beach art

By Kurt Ankeny

Couldn’t leave Whiskey out:

Mark Rothko inspired work

I did two different pieces on one length of fabric that were inspired by Mark Rothko. I love this artist’s use of color. I’m planning to make two throw pillows. Here’s one pillow:

And here’s the other:

Starting the new year with…

a new bookbinding desk. It’s an old 1920s post office desk with removable shelves, a drawer, and a nice, large table top that’s tall enough to stand up at. It’s perfect! Many thanks to Sarah from Sycamore Hollow, who was kind enough to part with it.

Update

Hello everyone.

I know I promised you progress on the potato dextrin piece, but I’m currently working on a Christmas present (which I’ll post after Christmas). Once I’m done with that, I’ll get back to the potato dextrin, I promise!

One of my favorites during the holidays…

Pillow mints!

Wow

I saw this happen:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/11/04/man_dies_in_collision_with_mbta_train/

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Gardening

I was doing a bit of gardening and a friend decided to come along for the ride.Here are the latest flowers in our garden:

And best of all, we’ve picked fresh strawberries from our garden, which we sliced, sugared up, and ate with angel food cake. YUM!

Garden blooms

We’ve had several warm days recently and the garden has really started blooming. Even the cherry tree is blooming! I can’t wait to see it fully bloomed! My husband and I lived in Japan for 2 years and every spring they did hanami, which means “flower viewing.” The cherry trees would be in bloom, and the entire community would come out in their best yukatas and picnic under the blossoms. We always thought that if we ever bought a house, it would either have a cherry tree or we’d plant one. Well, after we moved into our place last summer, we were in the garden looking around, when we noticed the bark on our tree. Lo and behold, a weeping cherry tree. My eyes teared it was so perfect! I just might have to get my yukata out of storage and have dinner under the cherry tree this weekend.