De Nudu

Remember this hat my friend Jerry at the bagel shop wanted? Well, two skeins of wool and two months later, I finished it last night. Without a pattern, but with lots of advice from knitters, I set out to tackle this project. It doesn’t look exactly like Billy...

A Rosey View

I didn’t get much cycling in this weekend, or swimming for that matter. I did, however, spend an hour or two at my favorite brewery, wash dishes at a soup kitchen, have lunch with girlfriends, enjoy 100 pages in a new novel I’m reading, and enjoy an ice...

Nightmare on Lemon Street

Everything doesn’t always come up tulips around here. I intended to bake to my heart’s content yesterday — trying two new recipes. The bagel shop boys are now placing orders and wanted something lemon. I also wanted to try hot cross buns, a lenten...

Delicious Details

The more I craft, the more I love the details — in packaging, tiny stitches, finding just the right button. My art is slowly but certainly changing from the “make lots of stuff quickly no matter how shoddy the results” to “make a few things and...

Donky

Finny’s nickname for me — Donk — is a shortened version of Donkey. In 8th grade, my last name was misprinted as “Donky” in the school year book. {The idiots couldn’t even spell donkey right.} If I had been a bit more spunky, I would...