Archive for May, 2011
The weather was ambiguous so we had no plan to go to a park, but then after treating the kids to treats at a cafe, it was quite nice out so we pulled into a nearest park from where we spontaneously mused some sunshine time.
There’s like a billion parks in and around Portland, if we had looked up for a park, we would have never found this one. But it turned out to be such a gem! There isn’t any impressive play structure here (who needs those anyways?) but beautiful mossy trees surrounds a small grassland.
Each of these trees have such character!
I adore the moss on the bark.
And the grassland is full of cute little white flowers.
The picnic area had a grill onto which someone have stenciled “Knowledge is Power.” Random, much?
I’m stitching “There’s faeries for everything.” on immi’s functional but boring belt. With coffee of course, by the window in the evening.
When I saw the cute little brass candle holder for $0.99 while thrifting, I immediately wanted to make it into a pin cushion. It had been sitting on my desk when I noticed that the base screws off, which I thought was such an opportunity to thread something onto it. I found 2 hex nuts that fit, which wanted to be covered with crochet with vintage crochet thread I happen to acquire recently. And few more random inspirations and serendipitous happenings later, I ended up with this strange little pin cushion. The cushion portion is needle felted wool. I’m not sure if I like it or not, but I suppose it’s definitely one-of-a-kind.
I’m wanting a knitting project, since I haven’t been knitting much lately. I found this rainbow color yarn and immediately thought of Immi and her Carebears. I’m knitting some test patches to see what I want to make with it. I never make swatches but this yarn is a bit weird — it’s a single spun 100% synthetic fiber (I guess cute cheap yarn gets me poor quality…), and also I need to figure out how big each color stripe would be.
When Todd and I were having a “lazy work day” (in which we pretend to be relaxing while we actually get a lot done, surely you know what I mean!?). I suddenly got it in my head that I totally want to plant some moss in our garden. I’ve always loved mossy garden, but I never really thought it’s something that can be “planted”. After some googling around, I found that you can in fact “plant” moss. I found some resources regarding how this is done and even some suppliers (not that I was planning on committing to buying anything). And then it occurred to me, that there’s moss everywhere around us (I keep telling you, I love Portland!)! So I scooped up a trowel full of moss by our front door and brought it into our balcony.
It would be lovely to have an entire garden full of mossy growth (I’d take moss for grass any day!) but since what we have at the moment is a potted garden, I made a mini moss garden in a pot, complete with fake mushroom! I pretty much ignored all the things I learned about how to transplant moss in lieu of experimentation (after all, moss grows naturally here!). If it fails, I’ll just try again. It’s been few days, and it’s still looking good.
For some reason I’ve gotten back in to doing crochet! I’m not sure what I’ll do with this, but I made crochet covered vintage shank-style button. It’s made from regular thread and smallest hook I had.
I got the impression that Immi wanted a tiara (she kept making “crown” out of all sorts of things with mixed result — mixed in that most of them won’t stay on her head for long) so I improvised up one with some cheap yarn on hand and crochet hook. She seems to like it!
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