Archive for April, 2011
We’ve been wanting to work on our garden but weather isn’t really in the mood for it! Amusingly though, our strawberry has survived through winter (it looks like it’s going to flower soon!) as has the rose which seems to just grow without much care here. Here’s apple mint we got at the farm recently awaiting trans-potting.
I’ve been working on this very small embroidery (hoop is 3in diameter). I think it’s done, though something like this I can keep adding stitches indefinitely!
This was a sort of color exercise for me, I picked few colors I didn’t necessarily like or thought would go together and then tried to make it work. Trying to broaden my use of colors!
I was totally excited to find perfect button in my vintage button stash for a hand sewn/quilted bag I’m working on!
We made use of gorgeous spring weather to go to a herb farm. I don’t even know if my parents know this, but I really enjoyed going to the herb farm every year growing up in Seattle. I imagine the reason why I love the “garden chic” look despite that I’m a lousy gardener is because of that place. Anyhow, few minutes of poking around internet found us Red Ridge Farms located in Willamette Valley area which is famous for Oregon wineries. It would have been a 30 minute drive, but we forgot to make an exit and took a detour. This turned out to be a fun adventure because got to go on a two minute ferry ride just to cross the river!
There were lots of beautiful farm lands on the way.
Pretty vista from Red Ridge Farm.
I found cute little horsetails (I had to look it up, I just learned that’s what its called)!
We got cheese plate so that we can enjoy the sunshine. Immi loved the mini-pickles (why are they called gherkins? such a silly word!).
This little pot of daisy (? I’m not sure if it’s daisy) had the most beautiful colors ever. It was very modestly priced too, but I’m not good with flowers so I just took a picture and we got small pots of basil and rosemary for our garden.
I made a found object mobile for Lucian because we got the impression he would enjoy such a thing.
It looks like I can blog from my phone! (If you can see this post, it means it worked!) Wether this is useful or not, we shall see! Now I can post photos *obviously* taken with iPhone with ease:D
Perpetuated by:
Socialize & Share:
By Shana
By Shana
By Shana
By Mary (Walker)
By Kimberly Anne King