spring web

Lace like webs, limey yellow color, wool dotted with specks of pink glass.

Never having used beads in my knits before .. now it’s all I want!

Vintage flower corsage (bought at auction) delicate handwritten note pinned to the backside “Ruth’s from her Cotillion Ball, she made it herself”.

So sweet, thanks Ruth ♥

 I should hope to feel every bit as grand, wearing it. ❤

feeling cream

© amanda ochocki + chalklegs barbershop soap
© AMANDA OCHOCKI + chalklegs working

I love the creamy pages of stinky old books, I love the speckled oats in creamy homemade soap, I love creamy hued photos.

P.S. In actuality I’m so very rosy. ♥

3 seconds of spring

We woke to sun and the street sweeps buzzing about and thought for a moment “SPRING!” but that was soon wiped away with a slap of sleeting snow that the weatherman called graupel, which lead to a quizzical look from Jason and a shared “wtf did the weatherman just say” moment, which then lead to a google search..

Graupel (German pronunciation: [ˈɡʁaʊpəl]; English /ˈɡrpəl/, also called soft hail or snow pellets)

So ok, yeah, it graupeled (sp?) today and I feel a tad smarter and a smidge more German for new words!

Worn blue jean NINETEEN HUNDRED HOUSE in a graupel storm?

There is definitely not any graupel in this picture.. my little sweet potato all sacked up like a spring present and she’ll be home in about a month!

Spring rabbits ..again caught in a graupel storm!

© AMANDA OCHOCKI + chalklegs miss maggie

(in all honesty Miss Maggie was made quite awhile ago, so technically she was pre-graupel)

Koigu

more Koigu

specifically koigu kpppm, now with added graupel!