A Little Imagination and a Pile of Junk

stories from the porch 2

A bowl of yarn is my food morning, noon and night. Day after...

 

...day after...

...day. My blanket is wrapping up faster than I imagined and I've already got my eye on the next project with some silky bamboo yarn waiting for me in the wings. As I work stitch after stitch I imagine how it might feel sitting on the front porch of our new house. For fun, I searched for 'patios' on Flickr. I pretend I'm in each of these places, trying them on like a new summer sun dress. It's like a mini-vacation without leaving home.

 

1. The Church., 2. yard, 3. Untitled, 4. Nina's Wind Chime closeup, 5. friday: red, 6. Enter the Groove..., 7. Inspiration from the net, 8. 0206 flores hasta en las caracolas (patios cordoba), 9. 0205 Quien cuidara esto (patios cordoba), 10. Patio en Puebla, 11. Patio is ready for summer, 12. patio

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My porch has been invaded. Seems I'm not the only one loath to be indoors these days.

 

 

It's a wonder I accomplish anything at all. Oh, yeah. Maybe that's why I don't seem to finish much. Except for a new pair of scrappy flip flops from one of Alisa Burke's fabulous tutorials and the last things that will probably see my sewing machine dusted off until September. I sewed mine together a little differently (because of sheer laziness) but the effect is the same.

 

 

There are a few new doodles in my notebook. Nothing is even attempted which can't be done from my patio chair.

 

 

 

Thank goodness for the laptop or you might never hear from me again. 

xo, Debra, from the land of beautiful summers 

keeping cool

With dishes piled up to the sky; the kitchen table buried in books, papers and electric cords; and the laundry not so bad but getting there, I find myself abandoning it all for the comfort of the front porch. A bag full of color and weavy goodness keeps me company should the kids wander a little farther down the street on their scooters giving me a brief moment of quiet. (Oh, please, let them wander just a little more!) These days its much cooler to be outside than inside. And way too hot to turn on the oven or stove on the few nights we are home for dinner. We've long since relocated our school time outdoors and I'm thinking if we could find a way to move our beds onto the front lawn and trade the kitchen table for a picnic blanket, we might actually never have to go inside again.

 

 

Since it's an electrical hazard to sit at the sewing machine with sweat pouring from your body, I've had to halt production on my new journals and opt for a more porch-friendly project. I've been looking for the perfect crochet pattern (that would not require me to dig through my boxed up art books or to buy a new one) for a while now and finally stumbled across this one which fits my needs perfectly. I love the grey and random circles. Random color patterning is the best way to crochet, in my opinion. Keeps things interesting as you work through the same stitches over and over.

 

An apple martini helps keep things interesting as well. Have a great weekend!

a few good things

~ A few more journal pages filled and a few more left to go.

 

~ A few more doodles drawn and a few more left uncolored.

 

 

 

~ A few more houses walked through and a very special one chosen.

 

~ A few more files transferred and a few kinks still to be worked out of the new computer.

~ And next up: A few sunny Southern Colorado days to enjoy with friends and family and maybe even a few hours to work on some new projects.

 

Hope you have a great weekend and I'll see you next week with a few more!