Seamstress

Gwyned

Quinn

Amelia

Aubrey

Jocelyn

Reeve

Christian's Hat

Doris

Darcy

Starboard

This is what I have been working on for the past year. Gwyned and Amelia were made with regular purchased patterns. Quinn was made with Grosgrain's Frock by Friday in May. For everything else, I either tweaked a pattern (Aubrey), designed with the help of patterns (Jocelyn. Jocelyn, Aubrey, & Gwyned are all from the same pattern), or from pictures (Reeve, Christian's Hat and Jocelyn), or designed completely (Starboard, Doris, Darcy).

I like this designing thing. :)

What do you think I should do with it? I would like to create purses to sell on Etsy, and maybe aprons and baby clothes. And of course, if anyone should like to order something... :)

"It is Truly Useful Since It is Beautiful."

The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint Exupéry

The Book

Can you believe it?! I'm not sure I can. :)

But yes, I have a real live copy of a(n albeit cheesy) book I wrote!

Those folks who participate in NaNoWriMo and complete the 50,000 word goal are given a free proof copy of their book. That's how I got this.

The book would need major over-hauling if I really wanted to get it published (which I don't), but it's lovely to have a tangible proof of all the work I put into the story last November.

Many thanks to Djaq for the beautiful cover she made for me!!!

(Josiah read the book, and told me about all of the times I accidentally repeated words or skipped them or misspelled them. My mother was horrified.)

Bicycle

Found on A Cup of Jo


My "new" and beautiful bicycle. I've been riding a couple times a week, and it's such fun!

She's in need of a name. What would you suggest?

My Style of Geography

A friend and I were thinking about where states were in relationship to each other. So I tried my hand at making a map of the United States.


My apologies to the East, the South, the South West, the plain and mountain lands, Canada, and everybody from Arkansas.

A Lovely Day for a Picnic

In honor of my dear friends Christian and Sara's birthdays, spring, and friendship, I gave a picnic.

I am quite sure I had more fun planning it than they did at the picnic.

The menu consisted of:

Cold Spinach Quiche with Fresh Tomatoes
Cheese Ball Spread on French Bread with Fresh Cucumbers
Strawberries
Carob Cupcakes with Butter Frosting
Snickerdoodle Croissant Cookies
Iced Sweetened Mint Tea

I made bunting. I think I'm going to hang it up in my room, now. If I can ever untangle it from the snarl it got into as we quickly took it down before the rain. :)

As I was making the food, I kept saying to my brothers, "Oh, this is so cute! Isn't it?"

They didn't really get it.

I was frightened it would rain, but it was beautiful, beautiful. Everything was so perfect and lovely. All of the dishes were real and beautiful, and they made me feel so elegant. And that little picnic hamper makes me feel like I have a yellow bicycle (which I do, now!!!) and live in England.

It was the perfect picnic.


(And that is my Frock by Friday frock. I want to do some alterations yet, though.)

Seamstress

Making a dress with Grosgrain's lovely Frock by Friday!

Books

I just finished up Wuthering Heights, and am now debating between Our Mutual Friend and That Hideous Strength. Which to read first? Also, greatly enjoying Happy Days.

Conspiracy of Kings is arriving in a few days!!!

Shabby Apple San Gabriel Giveaway!

Shabby Apple's San Gabriel Dress

At Grosgrain. From Shabby Apple.

Only the Best of Etsy Sample Package Giveaway!

A box of surprises being given away at Grosgrain!

It sounds delightful, so go over and read the post and enter!

Cherry Pop Refashion Frock Grosgrain Giveaway!

An oh-so-pretty dress, refashioned from a really ugly one! This is just the sort of thing I would like to do, but my machine is broken... *tears of anguish*

So Pretty

If You Kind of Squint a Little

This painting looks like me. A little bit? More than anything else I have ever seen, at least.

Wojciech Korneli Stattler by Wojciech Korneli Stattler, I guess.

Lovely Package II

Here are the pictures of the second lovely package that I got way back in August, and never posted. :)

Clever and beautiful packaging...

Yummy candy from all over the world! The Belgian Earl Grey Dark Chocolate is seriously the best I have had in my entire life.

Adorable paper things! Printed with gocco.

Little notecards. Almost too cute to use, don't you think? And the envelopes are lined with graph paper! *melts*

A little print of "Little Oso." I'm presently very interested in the constellations, so this makes me happy!

A train pencil. Isn't that perfect?!

Beautiful and happy! Thank you, Nicole and Jason!

The Books of 2009

The Thief
Anna and the King of Siam
Blessed Child
Manalive
The Silent Boy
Electric Dreams
The Silver Chalice
This One Mad Act
When A Man's A Man
Jane of Lantern Hill
Fairest
Pat of Silver Bush
Anthem
Mistress Pat
Born Again


A Week in Killarny
The Prisoner of Zenda
The Amazing D. Randall MacRae
Reimagining Church
The Blue Castle
The Valley of Fear
On Friendship
A Tangled Web
The Queen of Attolia
The King of Attolia
Oliver Twist
Hard Times
Kipling's Poems
No Compromise
The Penultimate Peril
The Giver
The End
Out of the Silent Planet
Emma
Outliers


Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal
David Copperfield
Bring Me A Unicorn
Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead
Perelandra
Three Men in a Boat
The Great War
The Story of My Life
Daddy Long Legs
Boy
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Dear Enemy
Manalive
The Lilies of the Field
Anne of Avonlea
Thirty Years With the South Sea Cannibals
Mrs. Miniver
Personality Type
The Persecutor
N or M?
Ella Enchanted


Northanger Abbey
Gratefully Yours
Murder on the Orient Express
Howl's Moving Castle
Pagan Christianity
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoners Dilemma
Jane Eyre
Jingo Django
The Lightning Conductor
Mustang Wild Spirit of the West