I meant to post this earlier — my first handmade quilt purchase, at the Oak Park Makers event! I fell in love with how Carly Kocurek layered these fabrics — to me, it’s like looking through a window at a beautiful collection of vases and flowers. I particularly love how she outlined and detailed the […]
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I am still trying to decide whether to host a small holiday party / sale at the house. Very waffly! I could, in theory, do it Sun 12/5, Sat 12/11, or Sun 12/12. I could invite others to join, so there are a few more vendors to shop from. We’d require that everyone be masked
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Took a break from working (I’m feeling kind of stressed after losing two days to being sick, but am trying to be chill about it) to finish off this cowl. It has SO many mistakes in it, but I am going to wear it anyway, in the spirit of embracing imperfection. The biggest mistakes: •
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Dinner mostly via Whole Foods this year, followed by family watch of Into the Spiderverse. Chill.
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One of the relatives snapped this photo of me last week, dancing in Marina Aunty’s kitchen with my mother at her 70th birthday celebrations. It’s a nice picture, but it’s misleading. What it doesn’t show is how sad and strained much of the weekend was. Amma has been sick for a long time, struggling with
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I’m slowly turning our master bath into a jungle. What I’d really like is to have vines climbing up the higher part of the walls, but I think it’s going to take a while — see how tiny that pothos is? But still, coming along. Five plants in here so far. I bet I can
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We are all quite tired here, so there is a lot of sitting around with cats and blankets. Sometimes the cat is accommodating, sometimes not so much. Mostly took this photo because I like the color composition.
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A little more of Serendib House staff pre-Thanksgiving lunch. Ethan is actually dipping cookies for the Patreon boxes, not lunch, but still. Is that tiny book pumpkin not the most adorable? It is. My sausage & cornbread chipotle stuffing went over well, per usual — the ones who were with me last year remembered it
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Tuesdays are staff production days at Serendib House — we decided to do some potluck Thanksgiving as well. A little complicated by the fact that we’re still not eating inside together, but it was nice enough on the porch with the heater going for eating, so going in and out to eat worked well enough.
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The semester is ending next week, and things are finally slowing down enough that I have the mental space to try to reset some of my habits that got a bit wonky during the semester. Being a professor is like a sprint — it gets a little all-consuming during the semester, and then you fall
