kidding around

Comment by carolynswafford

January 7, 2008 @ 3:10 pm

Carol: It’s great to see a new blog post from you! I love the new year for making “to do” lists and the fact that the Christmas pressure is gone. Yours sounds very do-able!

Comment by Ruthanne

January 7, 2008 @ 3:39 pm

Your list has inspired me and I will get the sewing machine out again tomorrow. I’ve had a holiday from it as I got myself too stressed with “must do” rather than “want to”!

I bought a basket of hyacinths for the hallway and had to chuck them out the kitchen window in the night (naughty I know but I was grumpy and tired!) as the smell was keeping me awake. I don’t know if it was just the type we had but they were “knock-you-out” strong!

Comment by tracy

January 7, 2008 @ 4:23 pm

i just changed my banner and cleaned up my sidebar. nice to have something off the list!

a trip to CA? do let me know… (lunch at the getty perhaps?) happy new year! xo

Comment by Maryellen

January 7, 2008 @ 5:01 pm

Great post–I’m off to find the Burda pattern! I’m glad to hear someone else having mixed feelings about “Eat, Pray, Love”. She writes beautifully, and everyone seems to be reading it. It rubbed me the wrong way too, but I couldn’t put my finger on it–maybe it was all too neatly packaged for a book about personal struggle.

Comment by Dayna

January 7, 2008 @ 5:31 pm

My grandmother and I used to plant a Hyacinth every year and leave it in a black garbage bag in a cold hallway until it was ready to spring to life. I look forward to carrying this tradition on with my daughter. Looking forward to the smells of spring…although it is unseasonable warm here too – so it kind of smells like spring today

Comment by Ariana

January 8, 2008 @ 12:33 am

You run 3 miles a day?! I am so impressed and envious!

Comment by hillary

January 8, 2008 @ 3:32 pm

fun summer journal? cool idea!!

and 3 miles a day? what the heck. good for you!

and birthday quilt.. sounds like a trip to the
s & s is in order.

Comment by Denise

January 9, 2008 @ 12:42 pm

Sewing? Oh, I have piles of fabric to sew. The machine is calling but can I answer?
You have a nice – to the point – list, nothing extraneous or superfluous – can’t wait to see the new header! I’m currently without one because I gave up (

Oh – and I LOVE hyacinths! Have you ever read this quote?? I don’t know if I liked hyacinths first and then found this, or if I found this poem first and then discovered the beauty of hyacinths — no matter.

If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
And of thy meager store
Two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one, and with the dole
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

- Sheikh Muslih-uddin Saadi Shirazi,
The Gulistan of Saadi, 1270 -

Comment by Mimi

January 9, 2008 @ 8:52 pm

While to me, daffodils shout “spring is coming” (and I always call them Lent Lilies in my head), hyacinths are right behind them. LOVE that!

Comment by leslie

January 10, 2008 @ 10:19 am

man, if i could figure out how to crop a picture properly for a new banner i would definitely do it, just cant focus on that photoshop tutorial! maybe changing my banner will be my one and only goal this year, ha ha! and if you call tracy for a date at the getty, i would love to join you two!

Comment by sjsd

January 11, 2008 @ 11:51 pm

really!!?? 3 miles A DAY! lucky lucky you! how do you find the time? where are your children? especially when it’s dark so early.

….oh….wait….do you have a treadmill?

i am thankful to get in three miles a couple times a week (and it’s been weeks!!! since it’s happened)…and that is always with the littles in tow (1 in jogger, 2 on bikes).

you have a good list going there, sounds refreshing, though i do love your blog header, i will look forward to what you put up there.
happy weekend.

Comment by Heidi

January 13, 2008 @ 10:17 am

I got that book for Christmas but haven’t started it yet. I’ve heard mixed things about it too.

Isn’t this warm weather strange? Happy new year!

Comment by zoe kyrlova

January 15, 2008 @ 8:51 pm

i’ve also been having some issues with, “eat, pray, love.” usually i devour anything about india, but i am stuck in that part of the book and can’t seem to move forward. i think there is a side of me that can’t imagine why i would want to subject myself to her personal struggle. but i hear the last part is worth the slog.