little love No.1

A blue valentine. I’ve been smitten, well maybe ridiculously fixated, with a little crochet heart from an old workbasket magazine, the “heart in crochet” from Vol. 24, No. 5 February 1959 to be exact! (Ravelry page for the original) I have a few issues of workbasket, but mine are all from the 40’s. So while totally obsessing on thatContinue reading “little love No.1”

WESTSIDE APARTMENT

I was once asked if I would keep designing buildings. Well, yes I think I just might. I do so love a good building. We spent much of our early married life in a wonderfully charming apartment building, in fact it was an old nunnery that was converted into hodgepodge apartments. We had most of the firstContinue reading “WESTSIDE APARTMENT”

this year I will be GRAND

I am not one for making resolutions, unless they are kind of generically broad, like “I will do more good, I will be more sweet to myself & others, I will slow myself and enjoy the moment”. I don’t like to feel guilty, disappointed or promote self-loathing, so pushing self-awareness and enlightenment work for me.Continue reading “this year I will be GRAND”