Now to figure out how to thresh it: mortar and pestle? Wrapping it in a tarp and backing over it with my car a couple of times? The trials and tribulations of the urban wheat farmer 😉 I will tell you, though, even cutting my tiny “field” was a decent amount of work. Mad respectContinue reading “Operation Baguette: Harvest Time!”
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Making 갓 (Gat): Traditional Korean Scholar’s Hat
I’ve been watching Dear Hongrang on Netflix, and since it’s a costume drama, there are a lot of beautiful hanbok, hair pins, etc. But I swear the hats are like their own characters, they get so many close-ups in this drama. That started me wondering what they’re made of and how they’re made. And thenContinue reading “Making 갓 (Gat): Traditional Korean Scholar’s Hat”
Update on Operation Baguette
It’s coming along nicely!
15th Annual Peeps Diorama-Rama
A strong showing this year, particular from our kid participants! If you read this blog, you will know which diorama is mine just based on the fact that Link is wearing his Blupee armor.
Operation Baguette
Last year, I think a bird must have pooped out a wheat berry in the path right *next* to my garden beds (not *in* them for some reason), and against all odds, like a Biblical parable, it sprang up and bore fruit. My mama raised me right enough that I know a head of wheatContinue reading “Operation Baguette”
Uni Iroikas: Tomo Kishida’s Sakiori Project
Sakiori is the Japanese art of making new cloth from torn strips of worn-out clothing. I’ve done a couple of knitted sakiori projects before, like making Christmas tree skirts and table runners out of old sheets. I was looking for some inspiration for what to do with a set of silk pajamas that was splittingContinue reading “Uni Iroikas: Tomo Kishida’s Sakiori Project”
2024 Christmas Theme: Enchanted Forest
I took the Angela Harding advent calendar as the centerpiece of the theme as well as my Iittala Taika dinnerware (“Taika” means magic forest in Finnish, according to the company). Think lots of owls, deer, greenery, mushrooms, gnomes…. Extra Credit to my friend Nicole for convincing me to use my raven puppet as a treeContinue reading “2024 Christmas Theme: Enchanted Forest”
Tisane of the Week: Rose Honeysuckle Mint (etc.)
I inherited a crazy yard—really a mini urban farm complete with livestock (the chickens were written into the counter-offer): there are six fruit trees (sadly down from 8), 7 raised beds in different levels of the yard, and untold numbers of flowering shrubs and annuals, not to mention patches of perennial herbs here and there.Continue reading “Tisane of the Week: Rose Honeysuckle Mint (etc.)”
Wooden automata
Really beautiful: youtube.com/watch
Victorian Blue-and-White Christmas
Full disclosure: I don’t actually have that many Victorian-era decor items other than a set of paper houses I cut out when I was a kid and a pre-Raphaelite tree angel I think I bought from the Met catalogue 30 years ago. So around my place, “Victorian” kinda means “more is more” and also “putContinue reading “Victorian Blue-and-White Christmas”
