Category Archives: Fall

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Grey Felt

 

Grey felted scarf.

I want to make some of these…

Felt pebbles.

Pumpkin Love.

Textbook Pumpkins are awesome.

Mondrian Cake

 

I’m a Flickr & Tumblr addict.

Alder & Co. French Linen Tote.

 

Alder & Co.

Tartlette rules.

I want to make this Apple Cardamom cake, via Tartlette.

Trying out some new themes; the look of the site might change a couple times while I play around with the style.

♥ Momo

October Hues

Pocket Frog Love.

Blogging is like exercise. The more you do it, the easier it becomes, but if you spend a month on your couch eating Cheetos, excercise gets a little more exhausting. I haven’t been sitting around eating cheesy snacks, but I have been up to everything but blogging. No writing, no sitting & sifting through Tumblr and Pintrest. I’ve been working, which is rewarding but exhausting, & running around town, cleaning the house, selling a large part of my former wardrobe…and maybe playing Pocket Frogs. Maybe. Don’t tell.

It’s good to be back,

♥ Momo

 

Shades of Grey: November Issue

Bookhou: Textile

Bookhou.

Forbidden Hoodie!

Eureka Boutique.

Dahlhaus

Dahlhaus.

Dots!

Cute Tape.

♥ Momo

The Owl Thing.

Owls!

I have a thing about owls. My grandmother collects them, so I grew up staring longingly at shelf after shelf of owl figurines, & walls of owl paintings, i.e. Charley Harper’s owl flying in a forest of birches. Quality owls.

…of course I’ve heard from my dad that originally she had only admired an owl figurine in passing, & a friend bought it for her for Christmas. This owl was noticed by visiting family members & friends, & the next fifty years were filled with thousands of owls. Completely out of her control. If I genuinely love owls, what will happen to me?

♥ Momo

Happy November!

Augustus the Lion

…no mention of what Augustus the Lion wants to do with the owl…

Wisdom from Lovely Design:

“Start the day calm. Take some time each morning to lie in bed (together) and consider our day ahead. And have a simple, yet nice, breakfast each morning. It is amazing how much more I get done – and how sweet our days can be – when I take a little time to do so.”

…in my dreams, my house is organized as perfectly as hers:

Dishes!

♥ Momo

It’s Cold!

Assam Tea

It’s cold, cold, cold, cold & cold. Did I mention that it’s cold?. It’s too cold to venture out from beneath this big blanket, definitely too cold to go looking for the extension cord I need to plug in the pickle {As the sign in the metals studio I learned in declared: “Pickle is an ACID!”} in its new location off of the kitchen.

It’s too cold to get up and sit at the bench, which is well-placed next to the heater in the living room…except that I don’t control the thermostat to the heater in the living room. Thanks to the excellent wiring in this house, our top floor flat is at the mercy of the tenants in 1 & 2, who apparently have an ample sweater collection, and no inclination to turn up the heat. I need to bribe them somehow.

In the meantime, I’m drinking lots of tea, & enjoying enormous maple bars from:

Top Pot Seattle

Top Pot Donuts, which are not warm, but are so delicious they make me forget that my hands are freezing.

Ideas for keeping warm during the holidays:

Jme Tea, from Williams-Sonoma, in Assam, above, or Passion Fruit Mango…which I might not drink during the winter, but I bet it would mix well with lemonade next July.

Passionfruit and Mango Tea

Ooooo mulling spices. I’m looking forward to December, when I will be curled up on the couch in a pile of satsumas & a gigantic mug of hot cider. This year, we will be making our own mulled cider – a first for me – and I plan to keep it on the stove all winter long.

Btw, have you seen Hello Naomi? Her bio reads “I am a robot programming computer engineer turned baker, cake decorator and party stylist”. I love it.

♥ Momo

AllSaints is Here

Washi Tape!

All Saints. They’ve been a whitewashed, fake-brick facade on the corner of Pine and Fifth/Fourth? until I stumbled downtown this morning and discovered the coolest storefront I’ve ever seen. {I walk by Anthro every day, and this made me swoon more than them. Come to think of it, I probably shouldn’t walk by Anthropologie every day. Bad habits.}

I have no pictures of the floor to ceiling Singer sewing machines that take up the enormous windows at the corner of the building. It was a choice between hot tea or pictures, & hot tea won the first round.

I haven’t even seen the clothes in person, & I know this is going to be a mixed blessing.

{Regarding the photo above; the AllSaints site doesn’t allow the reproduction of their photos, so you get more pictures of Washi tape!}

♥ Momo

The Big Board

“Gentleman! There’s no fighting in the War Room!”

Scenes from my bench! September updates on the business, and some pictures from recent adventures:

Our beach, as seen in the Mason jar on my window sill.

Stormy Sunday I

Stormy Sunday II

…the view from my work table, to the right of my bench and the big board. It’s been sunny, windy, drizzling, pouring and thundering today; my favorite weather. ♥

Small Work

Small Work III

I have this amazing collection of big and small lampwork beads, and I’m finally playing around with making them into something!

Beads!

Beads! II

Walkabout:

Sad Pillow Sunday

…yeah. There’s really nothing to do when you turn the corner to find this other than to take a picture. Grey sky, grey sidewalk, grey pillow with the stuffing beat out of it. Real feathers.

Pillow at Pike & 11th

“Sidewalk Cat welcomes you to Cafe Presse”

I love Cafe Presse – stop making the waiting list so long, guys.

I sold my first piece last week! I hope that this means good things. {Fingers crossed, working feverishly away.}

♥ Momo

Fall Wardrobe: Part II

Cordelia. Carnelian & Labradorite. Sterling.

“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

-A.A. Milne {Winnie the Pooh}

This is my favorite necklace I’ve made so far! Carnelian & Labradorite, wrapped with sterling silver.

I was downtown early before work last week and ducked into Anthro to dig through the sales rack. {You know it’s bad news when the sales associates grin at you and say “We haven’t seen you in forever! It’s so good to see you!”}

Identical dresses, one in plum, the other in a medium grey, they are 100% felted Merino wool, on sale, just put out, the only two XS’s in the entire store. They layer perfectly, and make me happy. ♥

Isn’t that a great way to start Autumn?

♥ Momo

Autumn Themes

October Hued Flatware

Autumn tones: Etsy.

It is uncharacteristically cold today! Thinking warm thoughts ♥

…for announcing the arrival of fall at your door. {In August? I hope not.}

…for mixing up tasty apple cakes, or carrying potluck dishes over to the neighbors!

…and for bundling up in before carrying potluck dishes over to the neighbors.

…& for good measure, this ring.

♥ Momo