Sara adds a hello sticker to this cute Tom Lum Project for Awesome postcard
She reports that there isn’t much school left and that Summer Sara is trying to emerge before her time. Also that almost all the spring blooms are gone due to not much rain.
Matt poses with the remains of our complementary crème brûlée from RingSide Steakhouse. We had a delicious dinner for our twenty-fourth anniversary.
There was a plan to eat at a steakhouse in Boise that fell through, so I knew I wanted a steakhouse experience for our fancy dinner out. I got a delicious steak, baked potato, roll, and both a martini and a Manhattan. Plus we got onion rings, which were just the right kind of fried.
It was a good meal!
*book group selection | bolded means favorite
The first full month where I am not in a book group.
*Devils Like Us by L.T. Thompson
The Examiner by Janice Hallett
The Rumor by Elin Hilderbrand
I enjoy when an entire community takes its turn at narration.
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5 by Beth Brower
Miss Lion continues to delight.
The Uncool by Cameron Crowe
Loved Clothes Last: How the Joy of Rewearing and Repairing Your Clothes Can Be a Revolutionary Act by Orsola de Castro
An excellent call to arms that will stick with me. As will the paperback’s shoddy design.
This one took a while, partially because that yellow thread stitch to the right of the negative space square took a lot of thread, and I ran out and had to reorder, and also because my interest in this project seems to wax and wane. For instance, I finished it several weeks ago, but it sat waiting to be washed and stretched for a long time.
I like the overall result though.
Here’s a closeup of the left side. I like my double zig zags with the maroon and gold. And the simplicity of the turquoise running stitch next to it. The wrapped purple guy was when I started to incorporate stitches from Pop-Up Embroidery.
Here is a closeup of the right side. The yellow floss eater also came from Pop-Up Embroidery. I wasn’t very good at it. And then, for some reason, I decided I needed to make a billion figure-eight knots right next to it. You can see that the final bits were stitches that didn’t take long to make.
The back, for those who enjoy.
When I published the side two post, I discovered that I never chronicled side one, so here is side two:
And here is side one. I initially thought this project would be a good one to use up the bits of thread I had left from other projects, but I only had to run out of thread one time before I reached the top to abandon that plan. (You can see the little lime running stitch next to the white chainstitch in the middle not quite making it to the top.)
I also learned by doing. It’s best to start on one side and work to the other side. I initially added a line here and there, but didn’t like how much some of the things were getting beat up from the hoop, so everything after this panel was worked left to right.
One more panel to go! (And then I still have to make the bag…)
Look at me, shading with the white pencil!
I quite like how this one turned out, though am just noticing that one must rotate one’s head to the left to see the proper orientation.
The Movie Quiz, sadly RIPd in January, has been posting a cryptic countdown for a week now. And today, we find out why.
It’s back! New location! Which makes me think Quizmaster Mark and the Hollywood Theatre parted ways for Reasons.
Whatever the reason, we are excited to attend again.
I added some diagonal lines to make more of a basketweave pattern. Fun!
I like this one, because it’s basically the same form, just repeated differently.
I’m getting to the end of my stash of tiles, so it’s time for the tiny black ones.
I took some quintessentially Boise pictures while I was in town.
2C and tumbleweeds? Yep.
Do we have any trucks in Idaho?
Yes!
But they only come in white?
This was the parking lot of a high school in Nampa.
Whose rules? (This one got the most quizzical face from me. I’m not quite getting where the owner of this item falls on the irony scale.)
Oh wait, we do have some black trucks in Idaho. They are compact trucks, as you can see.
(This was in a parking lot with many other spaces available.)
I had very good thrifting, including finding some material for my mouse costume for $2.99!
It was a three-day training (though just three hours per day) so I had time to get some stuff done.
