a little inspiration

My word of the day: egress \EE-gress\, noun: 1. The act of going out or leaving, or the right or freedom to leave; departure. 2. A means of going out or leaving; an exit; an outlet. 3. To go out; to depart; to leave. See in a couple weeks!

So while we are away I wanted to have something to do with my hands... So I am taking up a new fiber art (don't I sound smart!) Here is my progress as of a couple days ago... Since then I've learned a few more stitches... Who knows what I will have after a gazillion hours on a plane... In other news- one more day at work- hip hip hurray!

Ah, doesn't this look nice? Such a happy tiny dog. Only three more days... three more of work, three more before Nicaragua.... Yay!

I found it on U-handbag Blog . Yay!

Last night we went to Artscape and saw Mike Doughty and Rusted Root. Actually, we didn't see much of them, we could hear just fine but since we were sitting on a wall under a tree we could only really see the sound booth and the crowd. The Jeremy and the Crissy came and shared our perfect spot just before rusted Root started. Two things happened before the show started: 1. It was blazing hot. Like, "I'm sorry, I am going to pass out and die." hot. Dad, you remember coming back into Baltimore from VMD? yeah... 2. A bee flew into me and when I (not being sure what it was) knocked it off the bee left the stinger in my boob. Yep, my boob. To which I said, "Ahhh, ah, ah!" Senor took this as me pointing out a small bug and tried wipe away the stinger. I really almost punched him. Once we had established what was going on he was very helpful. And I had happened to bring a benadryl stick with me (thanks dad!) so today it does not look like I have a thir...

Flickr just told me I have run out of space unless I buy a real account... hmmm... Let's weigh the options shall we? Edit: Funny enough Picasa had an add up after I published this.... :)

Senor bought me a camera. Yay!

So I mentioned the hair thing. I had seen it a lot while out surfing the interwebs and have thought about it on and off for a while. I don't really know a lot about the bad things in shampoo, just that there are lot's of bad things in most products you buy in the States. I understand if you bought the same thing in the EU the product would have considerably less of the bad stuff because the government in the EU seems to actually act on information that suggests a chemical is bad for you while the US wants proof. So in the US a certain number of people have to die, get cancer, be born with birth defects, etc before they will look into it. Which makes me feel great about the government and all that, let me tell you. On the other hand, if I learn x is bad and I continue to use x, well then maybe that is my own responsibility... Anyway, I hadn't meant to get on a soap box- it is more about getting off one. So on the first of July I read this on Angry Chicken's blog. ...

Food for thought.

But no pictures… Which is sad, but maybe I will get to the pictures later. 1) I made a wonderful oilcloth pillow cover for an outdoor chair. It is really cool and you will all love it when you see it. LOVE it I tell you! 2) I have resigned from my job and will be starting something new and wonderful when we come back from Nicaragua with this lovely little business . Yay! 3) Have I mentioned we are going to Nicaragua in August? Have I mentioned that I haven’t done anything for this trip… 4) I gave up shampoo about two weeks ago. I made my own deodorant this weekend. I really am not a dirty hippy. I smell nice and have glossy hair. (I will write more about this after a week or two when I get some pictures.) We are also growing things in the back yard. Vegetables I mean; not just random things (though there is some of that as well). I was talking to my friend about this the other day and she made me laugh a bit when she said, “You really give every appearance of being a granola/...

I made this blog to keep track of things that inspired me and what became of it. In the last month or so I have little time to do anything at all and less time to mention it here. So here are a couple of the links that started me on the path I went down this weekend. One. Two. And there are more but they are down the rabbit hole... So this week in the midst of crazy I bought this book. I have wanted it for a while. If you know me at all you know that when it is warm it is nearly impossible to get me out of skirts. I wear them to work, in the garden, while cleaning, carrying heavy objects, chasing the dog, hiking in the forest- whatever. So you can never have too many skirts. On Friday I made one and a half. I finished the second one on Saturday. I think I spent five hours total making them. That includes making two different patterns, cutting three fabrics and all the finishing details. First: I guess I could have ironed it. A wrap skirt. I wore it yesterday to the Body...