Archive for January, 2010
I was completely amused watching kids play in the kid-sized fake grocery store at the Children’s Museum. All they want to do is behave exactly like adults. Honestly, it’s a bit creepy.
Immi wearing the crochet spiral scarf. Not a good photo since she won’t wear scarves indoors and she won’t stop running outdoors 
We’ve been needing something to put Ashland’s toys in. I resisted the temptation to head out to the Container Store or some such store to buy a plastic bin (which I’ve felt wasn’t all that safe when immi was little anyways) and made this instead. It’s crochet from 3 strands of left over yarns and a super bargain yarn that I had in my stash (…which isn’t very big actually, in fact making this made my yarn supply box a lot less stuffed!). Ashland enjoys rummaging for toys:)
We’ve ventured out to North East of Portland because I wanted to checkout the yarn shop called Twisted. We are having coffee at Seven Virtues who serve local coffee, local pastries, and showcase local artists. Here’s Todd’s big white mocha and my little white mocha. All the espresso drinks in PDX seem to come with pretty frothy designs — am I’m being spoiled here, or is this how coffee supposed to look?
The yarn shop, was the best yarn shop I’ve been in EVER. It’s not the biggest (which will the the Yarn Garden in different part of Portland) but they have very nice selection of yarn, very cozy and happy atmosphere (and they serve huge menu of tea!), and best of all, very friendly staff! I got this pinky orangie super soft cotton yarn destined to be immi’s something.
I got this pin cushion at a thrift shop for $0.50. It was silver-plate with faded satin cushion. It was almost charming the way it was, but after some consideration, I replaced the cushion with left over wool (which is supposed to help keep pins sharp) from spinning yarn and refinished the shoe with alcohol ink. Now I have a very happy looking pin holder, which I needed since my plastic pin case broke.
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