Always a bookstore

March 17, 2013

For years, I've had dreams about cities.

Sometimes it's a city that I know, and I'm just walking down a street or taking a train and it's just another day in London, or New York, or Seattle. More often, though, it's a dream city that only exists in my head for the duration of the dream. Some of the cities are dark and empty and I'm the only one there. In others, I walk and talk with people I've known. In one of them, the city was overgrown and I rode a horse over a grassy bridge. In all of them, there is a bookstore. Like the cities, the bookstore changes from dream to dream - once, it was a basement of old paperbacks on steel and cork shelves, and in another, library carts of books sat outside under an overhang, around a large bed with a patchwork quilt over it, so that customers could test books out while lying on it (which still seems very sensible to me, as someone who has done a lot of reading flopped down on a bed or floor).

Does every city have a bookseller?

#SheepishHeartBomb

February 16, 2013

Meredith of One Sheepish Girl suggested that yarnbombers share their hearts this year. It was a great reason for me to do a little stashdiving and finish up a BikeBike sleeve that I'd started working on last year! If you spot one of these yarnbombs, please untie a bow and have a heart, or give one away.

#SheepishHeartBomb in Honolulu: love grows on trees (and in the vicinity of 808Urban)

#SheepishHeartBomb: it's raining hearts in Honolulu

Everyday crochet

January 19, 2013

There are several colorful (and one "manly") coaster in various locations around the house, used on a daily basis. Partly because they are cheerful and fun (except the "manly" coaster, that's just practical, ahem), and mostly because I'm clumsy and these coasters are also great for wiping up little spills.

These are also a nice way to use up odd bits of yarn. For this "manly" coaster I used the small skeins of kitchen cotton I had been using in dye experiments. The darker grey is dried kukui (Aleurites moluccana) leaf with iron mordant, and the lighter grey is fresh mint leaf with iron mordant.

Something

January 12, 2013

*"Nothing is carved in stone" - Dad's sense of humor here*

Now I can tell Dad I put something around nothing, hahahahahaha - need any more proof I'm his daughter?