tea and linens

 my tea this morning is a peppermint chai tea with plenty of milk

and here are some antique linens I've hand washed and are line drying in my kitchen

they belonged to my great aunt from connecticut

and my grandmother from chicago

beautiful handwork from both sides of my family

washed in the same suds

rinsed in the same water

hanging on the same line

women who would surely have been friends

if there had been the opportunity

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it is a much smaller world now

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thank you for dropping in on my kitchen in washington state

I know you have come from many miles away ...

what have you been up to?

happy halloween

haunted bouquet

one of the things I love about halloween

is how my housekeeping

(or lack of it)

becomes part of the decorations

dust, spiderwebs and dead flowers just add to the spooky atmosphere

:)

project tea

I'm working on Christmas gifts for all the teen, between and pre-teen girls in my life

machine sewing is a tedious task.

instead of having a handful of candy corn or m&m's after every seam, 

I think I'll have a sip of tea

in fact machine sewing is so tedious

that I just got distracted with the beauty of these scraps

what's the project?

I'm making flowers to stitch onto hair clips

:)

what are you working on while you sip your tea today?

I hope your day is beautiful, peaceful and joy filled

xoxo

kimmie

fingerless gloves

I had a turtle neck sweater that was too itchy on my neck

so I cut off the ends of the sleeves and made these fingerless gloves

I snipped a hole in the side seam where my thumb could go

... then I blanket stitched around the hole and added a little stitched flower

I folded up the cut edge and hemmed it with embroidery floss

now I'm scavenging my closet for more itchy sweaters that I don't really like

:)

more pogo

I thought you might like to see some of the fun things I've been doing with my pogo printer

(see this post)

I discovered that you can manipulate the prints  to get different effects ...

Try

soaking in water (for about 20 minutes):

and blast with heat (like an embossing tool or blow drier):

or try sanding the photo paper

before printing:

you can also sand it again after printing:

or do all of it ... like in the lower right hand picture here

someone had assumed that it only prints in black and white

(because of my earlier examples)

but you can print whatever is on your digital camera 

- whether it's black and white, color, cropped or doodled -

(hey - I ought a get money from polaroid for pushing their product - but that's not gonna happen to this 99%er)

morning tea

morning tea is in the dark


and in the car


on the way to school


in the fog


today's fog is the good kind though:)right now it's 8 a.m. and the fog has already burned off
where are you having your tea today?