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”

the thing about socks

..they aren’t just for your feet.. I adore sock monkeys, well anything sock animal, well REALLY anything that is practical/useful, that has a dual purpose & the ability of turning into something ultra sweet like sock animals! Recently I picked up this sock monkey book, it’s printed on a heavy weight matte stock (it feels soContinue reading “the thing about socks”

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”