i wonder if i'm the only one

who goes ahead and buys a sweater for someone i KNOW would love to get a necklace. i even have the necklace in mind. but apparently, i'm in a lazy phase. i think i will make the necklace and give it "just-for-fun" rather than "for-your-birthday".

saturday, we went to purchase our locally-grown tree. there it is in it's natural habitat...

we brought the most fun company ever...

(her dad and mama are ok company, too).

clarification about new cards

those examples that i posted down there? those LOOK like big square cards...they not. they're just little standard rectangles...the picture's on one side and the text is on the other.....

new business cards

well, here they are!
i'm pretty pleased with them, in general.
for future reference, 1 is the right number of photos on a teeny-tiny business card. and double-check to make sure all text lines up properly (the h's in holly and handcrafted should be lined up-like the one on the bottom).

newest member of the family

e-man worked all summer long in the garden with me, for a piddly few dollars an hour. we matched his saved working-money and he got some birthday cash. eight months after he started saving (on black friday) he made his purchase. (It's a gibson les paul and a very good one at that. so far he's having a very good time with it -typed by e.c.)



ziggy's borrowed guitar now goes to miss m, who will begin lessons as soon as her hands are big enough and her back is strong enough.

inconsistencies "fixed"

it took about 20 minutes, and it's not perfect...now some look a bit purplish. it would be better if my eye could just distinguish it right from the get-go.

slightly disturbing lack of consistency

look over there.........>
that little mini-etsy area? i really don't like it that some of the images are neutral looking and some are too cool (as in blue-ish). i wish i had the kind of eye that would immediately alert me to the fact that something is looking a bit too blue. because, honestly, it's way too much trouble to go back in and alter the pictures on my computer and then replace all the etsy pictures.

this way to swine-land

SOMEONE is exhibiting all the symptoms (maia-moo).
hoping we can get through it quickly and keep on with all of our wonderful thanksgiving plans.

another fun picture...

the perfect starbucks date-my boy, my knitting and a warm afternoon.