I have an alarmingly long to-do list for the next two weeks, but I haven’t been able to get very much work done since the weekend. (Hence my being up at 2:00 AM listening to Pandora and blogging). Thought I might as well post some photos of my Easter table, since I wrote about all [...]
Archive for the ‘holidays’ Category
Post-Easter Slump
Posted in food, holidays, photography, tagged daffodils, Easter, food, nigella lawson, photography on April 15, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Happy Easter!
Posted in food, holidays, personal, tagged cooking, daffodils, Easter, spring on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
He is Risen!
I bought those daffodils at the farmer’s market yesterday and was lucky to find an empty jam jar that fit them perfectly and some blue ribbon that complimented their color well. I normally wouldn’t buy flowers just for myself, but it’s Easter, and I thought the occasion merited something special – after all, [...]
Long Distance Communication
Posted in food, holidays, personal, tagged baking, food, valentine's day on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
. . . is really quite difficult. I posted this package to my boyfriend on Monday, and thought I was exceedingly clever because the UPS lady said it would arrive on Friday, the day before Valentine’s Day, and I thought he’d have a nice surprise in time for the 14th. Except I didn’t count on [...]
Valentine’s Day Preparations
Posted in crafts, download, holidays, tagged crafts, downloads, greeting cards, handmade, holidays, papercraft, valentines on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you remember, I posted last year about how I like to reserve most of my Valentine’s Day energies for celebrating my friendships rather than buying into all of the sugar-crazed, hyper-commercialized craziness. This year, since I’m long distance with D, I sent him a little package of homemade goodies just to mark the day [...]
Christmas ‘08 Crafts
Posted in crafts, holidays, personal, tagged crafts, handmade, holidays, jewelry, needle arts, painting on January 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
It’s a new semester, and a new year. I have two new roommates again (one of them remained the same, one changed, and we added a fourth this semester), and a new schedule of classes, as well as a bunch of new commitments (in addition to Bible Study, I’m doing a once a week [...]
Loose Ends (and Lack of Paper Progress)
Posted in crafts, grad school, holidays, personal, tagged crafts, jewelry, photography, wirework on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My blog has had an inexplicably high number of hits today. According to my dashboard stats, it’s some sort of record. And I have no idea why (if anyone knows of any high-traffic outside links that are coming here, I’d be very curious to find out). Strangely enough, the top post appears to be my [...]
Back to the grindstone…
Posted in bento, holidays, personal on December 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
For kicks, the travel bentos I made for the bus ride to the airport last Wed. My roommates liked the shaped eggs. N squealed a little and M said she thought they were “really sweet” (The foil-wrapped things are ham/avocado/cheese sandwiches):
There’s just two short weeks before finals and I’m already [...]
Palm Cross – Version 2
Posted in crafts, holidays, tagged crafts, cross, palm, tutorial on March 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In the last post, I showed you how to make one version of a palm cross. Here is its sister tutorial, which will show you how to make a second, fancier-looking version. A note of acknowledgment: this is basically a photo version of this line-drawing tutorial, with my own directionality aids and suggestions added [...]
Palm Sunday
Posted in crafts, holidays, tagged palm sunday, tutorial on March 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Today is Palm Sunday, when Christians celebrate the Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem a week before his death (Palm Sunday also marks the beginning of Holy Week, which leads up to Easter). This year we actually received palm branches in church (I’ve been going to nondenominational churches out here at school…and not all [...]
