Down the Rabbit Hole….

Lay lady lay…hey, isn’t brass making a comeback?

Yes, I found it at a thrift store here and yes, it still has the Herman Miller tag on it and yes, I’m keeping it…

Obligatory before…years of outside storage magically disappear…

Now to find a house to put it in…

Rubbed down with homemade beeswax polish…

My friend’s 9 year old son makes these amazing trellises…

Kept watching this place go up, wondering what it was going to be…

If the cake flops, add a bunch of yummy layers and call it a trifle…

Natural egg dying…turmeric is the winner here…

Fantastically built bamboo “hoop” house at the Folk School…

If we had enough land…

Chicken Don King…

Sister cleo…

Of course she wanted to keep it…

It’s been a while. No excuse other than I fell down the rabbit hole. And each time I came up, it was still winter and there was no sun, so I just slid back down and hid out. And oh the drama going on above! People being selfish and grumpy and lacking vitamin D. Children running amok in tight spaces. Technological diversions. Work issues. I did surface to celebrate birthdays, my son’s and my forever 39 (a really amazing night really). Now, it’s almost the end of April. The sun is out, things are growing again. Cheeks are actually flushing. The baby chicks are now medium chicks and living comfortably outside (their day consists of running away in fear anytime a grown-up chicken comes near them…good times.)
My creative energies have been taking me different places March and April. I did a lot of thrift store browsing, buying some cool old furniture no one else wanted. I had my first and last experience stripping furniture and I also sanded an old butcher block table…for hours. I found some needlework on linen I am making into pillows. I bought a fantastic old brass bed off of Craig’s List and didn’t go missing while picking it up. “You see,” I told my husband, “My clue he was a good person was that he was talking to me while road biking…evil people don’t road bike, right?” (Insert Lance Armstrong joke here, please). I did scour an old lumber pile looking for wood for my next silhouette projects and my brain has thawed out enough to be excited about those too.
I did manage to take some pictures. I hope you survived the winter and came out of the rabbit hole to lay in the sun…