today i am…

hunkering down and enjoying the view from my front door!

cozying up in plaid and mocs.

readying cookies and tea.

restocking the wood pile on the porch and keeping that wood stove full!

1 down, 3 to go. i’m using some fabric from my mother and vintage curtain pannels i found thrifting to make heather ross’s everthing tote for my mother, her two sisters, and myself. it’s making me think of my grandmother (isabelle got her middle name – louise – from her) and all of the things i do to be like her. the garden. the canning. staying on this farm that she built by aquiring the land piece by piece in savvy business transactions. she was always making and remaking things – especially clothing for her family. her sewing projects that i remember most were the Braque cloth bags made with vintage fabric from our girl-trips to Brimfield, MA. so it only seems fitting, as we approach the birthday of my baby named after her, to celebrate the rest of the women in this family with a craft after our matriarch’s own heart. vintage re-made into bags. with love.

looking for a shiny red fabric to patch my grandfather’s coat.

catching up on some reading: birthday. summer sewing. natural dying. pleasure.

checking sprouts. grape tomatoes. mesculin. basil. and one coffee bean plant. cris has the coldframe almost finished. just something to hold us over until he builds our greenhouse.

and last, but not least, i am loving today. loving this rare piece of writing – a love note – from my husband. and loving my husband for writing it.

have a great day!