On the second weekend of November, Jake and I hosted the second annual Family Plague Faire in our side-yard. Inspired last year by pandemic lockdowns and the closures of all our annual renaissance faires, the event’s inaugural year was a covid-compliant tiny event with only eight guests in attendance and… Read More »Second Annual Family Plague Faire
The brevity of this post diminishes the enormity of the physical labor involved in this project. While Jake has been on furlough this summer he is going all out with the home-improvement. Several of the projects on his list have involved hardscaping for the yard, and this post features our… Read More »Summer Hardscaping: Rain Rock Garden
Everyone is still wearing their masks, correct? Just because Americans are getting fidgety and bored of the corona virus, doesn’t mean the virus is gone. So as you throw caution to the wind and venture out on summer escapes to public places, wear a damn mask. That being said, not… Read More »Mask for Big Beards with Pattern
Making every effort to romanticize quarantine into a more bearable purgatory, I’ve sewn another apron. This one is a hallmark-style floral apron to go over the homesteading skirts that I am not wearing. Made from yet another remnant of vintage cotton that I scored at a thrift store long ago,… Read More »Floral Homestead Apron
While losing my mind over every activity involving being at home, it felt like a good time to be motivated to make some at-home clothing. Preferably something more sophisticated than sweat pants, but that would not require the removal of said sweat pants to enjoy. Here we find the apron.… Read More »Linen Apron
Oh, I want to leave my house this Beltane! As the weather gets nicer, the event cancellations get more and more disappointing. I miss dressing up, celebrating, and even shopping…Can’t even browse a market for fun anymore. In my mourning, I’ve latched onto the aesthetic of picnics as a hopeful… Read More »Happy Beltane! Shoulder Shopper Bag.
Right now it’s very difficult to look past the day-to-day. Long-term goals are hard to focus on in the stressful short term. As a form of relaxation I’ve returned to a very basic comfort by sketching what I’m thinking about: by sketching a food diary of all the calories helping… Read More »Colorful Food Diary
Posts are out-of-date as soon as they’re published these days….Though still healthy at the time of this writing, I haven’t had much capacity to be creative in all this change and madness. I’m too busy bouncing from one news update to the next, and trying to stay distracted when the… Read More »Washable Cloth Face Masks
Happy Ostara, or Spring equinox to all readers of the Northern Hemisphere! And a belated Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to all those still recovering. St Patrick’s day falls close to Ostara; closer than usual this year, so it is fitting that I have photos to share from a Celtic-themed dance… Read More »Bonus Post: Ostara 2020 and Celtic Belly Dance Show Photos