I'm enjoying these organized-by-color collages as my desktop background. I found them here.

Gloomy Saturday

Here are 10 things I'm doing today (or have already done):

1. Going to the fall-off-the-truck market for dented boxes of Quaker Oatmeal Squares.
2. Buying a new shower curtain liner (the old one is beyond icky).
3. Lavishing Penny with love and attention. And treats.
4. Thinking about special surprises to send to a boy away at school.
5. Working on Christmas presents for Robin.
6. Importing cd's into itunes. I recently cleared everything out of my itunes library. Now there's a lot of re-importing to do.
7. Watching one of the six movies I got from the library.
8. Staying warm. It's getting chillier in Limeport. The leaves are beginning to change. Autumn is coming.
9. Making macaroni and cheese from a box.
10. Reading A Prayer for Owen Meany.

Here's a picture I like a lot:


(Found on signs and wonder's flickr photostream here).

Rainbow

I was pleasantly surprised to see this rainbow as I was beginning the evening dishes. It's the second rainbow I've seen in a month. I must be lucky.

Improving the wardrobe

I bought this top at Target because:

1. I liked it.
2. My white blouses always get armpit stains (any ideas about how to get them out? is it my deodorant?) and I am constantly replacing them.
3. I knew it would be easy to pattern.

At the end of my workday, I lifted a pattern from the original blouse; it took me about half an hour. When I got home, I cut it out and built my new top in under two hours--I was done by 9pm. Now I have a pretty new top for tomorrow and it didn't cost me a dime!


I didn't have enough of this cotton to make a complete back so I had to do some clever piecing. I did a roll-and-roll hem on the armscyes which turned out a little puckery. Next time I'll do a bias facing.

I can't wait to make more of these!

Praising the French Press

Last night, my friend Ben was praising the superiority of the french press. He's convinced me that I really don't know what good coffee tastes like (I know it's certainly NOT the IKEA coffee that I bought and have been suffering through for the last week). I like this french press travel mug from Target as I take coffee to work with me everyday. I wish I could get this press from Willams-Sonoma but it's a little pricey for me right now. (Christmas present, hint, hint?)

Yosigo

I am really enjoying the photography of Jose Javier Serrano. I stumbled on his work by randomly searching Flickr, one of my favorite ways to spend a spare moment. You can see more of Serrano's work on his website, Yosigo.