the red dress

30Oct07

Here’s a ghost story for you all in honor of Halloween. P.S. In Hawaii, ghosts really do exist. For real.
So I have to tell you a little about my grandma for you to understand this story. She was a devot Christian. But her spiritual side was always mixed with the Hawaiian and Japanese spiritual world [...]

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corn chowder

22Oct07

I thought I would post my corn chowder recipe. Most of the cooking I do is done directly from cookbooks so nothing I make is very original except for my soups and spaghetti. This one takes quite a bit of time so I usually start it in the afternoon.
Ingredients:
servings: lots, enough to freeze some for [...]

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first quilt

22Oct07

I’ve been wanting to make a quilt for FOREVER, so what better time to begin one when I have a million other things to do?! Seems like nothing gets done until you are busy enough to put other things off. Does that make sense? It is the story of my life. Here is my very [...]

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Tags: lap quilt first bend the rules sewing

ready for take-off

18Oct07

Well I got all the gifts done for our trip. I sewed a few and the rest of the people are getting coffee. Who doesn’t love coffee? I had the unfortunate timing of reading a post on mothering.com/discussions about handmade gifts, right when I am ready to give several handmade items away as gifts. Many [...]

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eat your placenta, it’s good for you

16Oct07

So I’ve been thinking a lot about babies lately. Poor C seems so lonely by herself, and I am fast approaching 30. My friend Megan just had her little baby, and it seems like everyone I know is adding to their family lately! Since it takes so long to pop out a baby, we’d better [...]

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Tags: placenta birth babies

i love bias tape

09Oct07

I can’t get enough of the stuff! I kept buying packs and packs of the pre-made tape but it was getting expensive so I decided to make my own. I finally got up the nerve to use my new bias tape tool. It is the 1″ size, which is the size I use the most. [...]

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pi shawl

01Oct07

Later this month we will be going to Japan with my parents to visit C’s grandparents. Her first trip to Japan! The little bugger has 2 passports and she’ll start off her life as an international woman of mystery with a trip to the land of the rising sun. There is a time limit of [...]

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Tags: lace pi shawl Zimmermann

tea and a book

01Oct07

C has a pretty good collection of books, and of course the best ones are mine that I used to read when I was a little girl. It’s been so much fun to read them together and also read the inscriptions that some of them have. I always got books for gifts and my mom [...]

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Tags: muffins tea