Solo Mother

September 16th, 2008

Getting out of the rut: gifts beyond the everyday

It’s a droolfest. It’s a love-in with textile, texture, color and dreams. It’s all hand-made, all the time. And you can sort your gift shopping by color.
It’s Etsy. Have you ever been to Etsy?

I’m going to do my holiday and birthday and general gift shopping there. Hand spun and dyed yarn for my mother, and […]

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May 12th, 2008

…what I got for Mother’s Day

He painted them himself. The one in the foreground is a galaxy. The one in the background is of a storm. I think they are absolutely magical.
My mother cut out the canvas and bound the placemats, then sealed them.
We switch them back and forth. It’s his turn tomorrow to get the storm one for […]

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May 11th, 2008

Happy Mother’s Day, single moms!

It has been a lovely day, grey skies and all. The KoE and I are busy doing housework and a little bit of detective work.
You see, someone apparently was in a desperate fix for Mother’s Day flowers, and helped him- or herself to the ones left at my gate yesterday. Thankfully, a neighbor stopped by […]

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March 23rd, 2008

moving boxes

I think I’ve got two weeks of after work time to pack up our whole house and move to mid-town. The packing would go much more quickly if the King of Everything would stop stealing my boxes. Currently, he is doing cartwheels through the house inside the box.
Doubt me, do you?

He begged me for […]

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