I have been collecting notecards ever since I can remember. I have shoeboxes full. I was going through them the other day and realized that over half of them contained renderings of animals – hand calligraphy, paper cutouts, etchings, watercolors, and more. I love cards because they are concise sources of inspiration. Read more >
I have begun the next quilt in my Tartan Clan series. This one is based off of the MacLachlan Clan pattern. Read more >
This has to be one of my favorite kale salad recipes hands down. I make it at least once a week and it’s super easy. The original recipe came to me from a food cleanse I did, lead by Andrea Nakayama of ReplenishPDX, an amazing nutritionist here in Portland, Oregon. Read more >
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about giving the second in a series of 30 graduation quilts to a boy named Olin. It is now Ivanya’s turn, only this time, I was not able to bestow this third quilt in person. Instead, her father hand-carried it all the way to Germany where she has been finishing out her high school education. Like the first two, this quilt is made from pieces of clothing belonging to many of the adults who have watched Ivanya grow up. Congratulations to our dear Ivanya!
It used to be that the only books I ever read were fictional novels. Nothing wrong with that, I love fiction! Happily, however, my husband gradually began turning me on to some great non-fiction texts he was reading, and now I’m hooked. In the last year, I have read many books, but my three absolute favorites are Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, Daniel James Brown’s The Boys in the Boat, and Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
