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  • Traveling Time

    We are taking a little time off for some traveling. Kat is off to the Netherlands and Susi is enjoying Disneyland. Things might be a little quieter than normal, but we’ll be back full force in...
    May 16, 2014 1 Comment

  • JCE Summit

    I’m in California visiting Susi right now. There is lots of talk of knitting patterns, sewing Evil Queen costumes for a grade school principal (for a play, not because she is evil) and laughing...
    Apr 14, 2014 5 Comments

  • Project 365: March

    I made it through another month of my 365 photography project! This month we visited the American Swedish Institute, Matt surprised me with a weekend getaway at a posh cabin, my friends cat became an...
    Apr 04, 2014 1 Comment

  • Project 365 – February

    Yikes, it’s almost mid-March and I forgot to share my February 365 picture with you guys. We celebrated my mom’s 75th birthday this month with a trip to Lutsen, MN, the vice-president vis...
    Mar 10, 2014 4 Comments

  • Project 365 – January

    Over the last year or so I have started and dropped a lot of photo projects. Really, the only one I have ever been able to keep up is a Project 365 where you take a picture everyday. I did it in 2007,...
    Feb 03, 2014 7 Comments

  • Losing One Of Our Own

    I am just absorbing the news of the unexpected death of fellow food blogger, Iron Crafter and friend, Elle of Elle’s Kitchen. Elle died suddenly of a pulmonary embolism on Tuesday morning. She ...
    Jan 30, 2014 5 Comments

  • Looking for my craft mojo

    I don’t know about you guys, but I seem to have lost my craft mojo since the holidays ended. I can’t seem to make my ideas come together for projects I want to make. And if I do come up wi...
    Jan 22, 2014 13 Comments

  • Life (Outside) the Loop

    We spent this whole past week outside the Loop, enjoying a mountain Thanksgiving in Breckenridge, CO with Jenny and her family. Just the grown-ups went out on Monday night to Breckenridge Brewery. Ma...
    Dec 02, 2013 No Comments

  • Life in the Loop (and out)

    This week was spent in the Loop and saw the start of a skiing vacation. This lovely old building across the train tracks from us has been standing empty with boarded up windows. Because our neighborh...
    Nov 25, 2013 1 Comment

  • Life in the Loop

    It’s been rather quiet around my hood this week. It started off super cold with a 12F morning. At least the front alcove of our loft is a bright and sunny place to work (especially since there ...
    Nov 18, 2013 1 Comment