a portrait.

Source: ffffound.com via Sarah on Pinterest

I love this picture. And furthermore I would love to be the owner of a shop where this art decorated the wall. It reminds me of when I was very much younger and writing lots of poetry and using anything I could find to make something resembling some kind of art. And going to the governor's school for the arts and learning how to make a gigantic portrait of myself using only ink and my fingerprints. 


where did that part of myself disappear to??

it would appear that i have abanded this blog wouldn't it?


well... let the unabandoning begin.




i have been going through lots and lots of thinking and rethinking and studying and trying to figure out a direction for this life that i am living. ... but let me make a clarification there. i'm quite content with the life that i'm living, what i mean by that would be an addition such as... what would life look like if i'm not per say... teaching english forever? i love my students and my classes, but something has been stirring inside to figure out what i'm doing and where i'm going... and that has actually recently led me to the discovery that i want to pursue graduate school! marriage and family counseling masters program here i come... but.. in the meantime and even then i can still gather things that catch my eye right? i am officially declaring i'm not sure what direction this blog is going to go in... so expect the unexpected (because I am too).

lemon curd

note to self: 


apparently anyone who is anyone that is anyone makes lemon curd. 


you should figure out that puzzle. ...aka - make some.




i see lemon curd being made on almost all of the blogs that i follow. is this a coincidence? maybe. maybe not. it keeps springingup and making me want to make it to figure out why it is so popular. I think its like a pastry filling... but i've also seen it used as a jam... its made from lemons.. which we dont have here. well, we have small limes and big limes, and a fruit that looks like a lemon but its actually sweet. 


oh the puzzle. 


to be continued....

tapestries.

i love tapestries. i still have each one ive ever bought. my favorite being one i bought from a roadside (make that - highly advertised highway side) antique shop. when i traveled between south carolina and home i would always stop at them. actually once when my friend karrie went for a visit with me, we mapped out all goodwills within a ten mile distance of the interstates we were taking, to stop at along the way. that was a blast. it definitely took us a while to get home that trip. 

that tapestry, my favorite, made it onto our wall today. im pretty excited about it. it makes the whole room feel different. ( I wrote more about this over at my other blog, with more stories... if you would like to see: perandom

speaking of tapestries... tell me that leather/tapestry bag isnt awesome. i found it at Porteen Gear, an etsy shop.

also a fun find: this tapestry bound journal which i found in a shop called helicopter leaf over at Artfire.

a sofa? a sofa.

First a small note: If you are reading perandom and also this one :Thank you! Now, if you are doing that you will notice that this post happened there also. Thats because... I decided to put it in both places. Its a part of our lives... and a little crafty, so that I saw it appropriate to put it here too, hopefully little by little more of the posts here will be things we are doing ourselves!

Now onto it...

Who needs a sofa or couch when you can make your own "artesianal sofa" with your own blankets/tapestries/pillows? :D

Since we moved from a furnished apartment into a not so furnished apartment... weve been in lack of a couch. And we haven't really been set in high gear getting one either, for several reasons. We don't have a lot of time together at a good time of the day to go look... and we just don't to shell out much money for a couch we arent sure how long we will use. So Julton had an idea for his "artesianal sofa" and pulled out blankets and pillows and my -favorite- i might add, tapestry. It works for us :) 

the first

this is new... and i haven't exactly figured out where i'm going with it yet, so if you are reading... just bare (bear...?) with me for a while! i realized that i was stalking so many other blogs and art and craft and bookmarking this and wishing i did that... that i thought i would put it all together into something that i would try to use to give myself the pilas (literally: batteries, read: energy) to actually do something about it. i used to be a person that collaged in old books... that carried a journal and took lots of pictures... i used to crochet ALOT... i used to make earrings, and out of buttons at that! notice all the usage of "used to"? well, that's what i'm going to try to fix. i havent figured out where i want to start or what to do or just the plan of action in general. but im going to. and this blog is going to help me. so i hope that you enjoy the photos, recipes, quotes, verses, music, patterns, and links to other blogs in general that will be!