If you’re going to plant the early spring ephemerals, I really do recommend an itty-bitty vase of some kind, so you can do this. Chionodoxa, aka glory-of-the-snow, with the most charming starry flowers.
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Started harvesting daffodils from the cutting garden for the house, which makes me happy, but I clearly need to bake more scones…
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I got a little frayed by how messy the house was getting yesterday, so ended up staying up late straightening up, didn’t get to bed until 1, which meant I slept ’til 9, so woke up feeling discombobulated. (I’m usually up by 7 or earlier). But on the plus side, when I came down, it
We decide to try a Zoom call, a craft-and-chat with friends and acquaintances and internet associates — all are welcome in pandemic times — they are embroidering and knitting and chatting; I am ironing. Ironing for hours, going through the stash of fabric, new-washed and pre-shrunk. Our washing machine has broken and we don’t want
Started watching “Unorthodox” this morning on Netflix — so far, it’s very compelling. It’s unfortunately not good sewing (or watercolor practice) TV — too much of it is in Yiddish, and I need to read the subtitles. I can maybe crochet or knit during it, if I’m working on something very simple, but that’s not
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Tulips and daffodils and forsythia and watercolors and cake and pussy willows and dog.
Took an hour to sew masks for the four of us, so that we can go on walks still; we don’t feel like it’s socially responsible of us to go out beyond the boundaries of our yard otherwise, given that we live in a pretty crowded urban environment. Kevin would be perfectly content to stay
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Kevin’s parents gave Kavi art classes for Christmas, but it’s been so hectic that here we are, April, and we finally started one last night. But it’s pretty cool — a watercolor class taken via Domestika, about $25 for each of us (plus supplies). Fun doing it with Kavi. It’s in Spanish, with captions, which
Speaking of salvaging, this is some of what I was working on last night — it feels very surreal having several boxes of N-95s on my dining table, after all the discussion of their scarcity. We’re snipping out expired elastics (they’re completely useless — fall apart on just a tug, no stretch at all), and
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Roasted curry powder = pretty. Also delicious.
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