Patt with Two T's

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  One of my goals for this year was to do at least one show "over the hill" and off the coast.  It's easy to do an art show near where one lives--even though it still means schlepping your work and displays out of the house, but being farther away, particularly on the peninsula, means expanding your clientele to a broader range of people.  And for me, most of the shows I've done in the past couple of years have been in my own studio/home.   I was so thrilled all my displays, linens, textiles, jewelry, hats fit into my new car!  When I bought the Mazda, I was under pressure to get rid of the Prius that had a major stressful issue, and I didn't think about carrying lots of long displays.  I love driving this car and now it's even more perfect because everything fit.  I was reminded of how Annette and others used to call my old Honda the "clown car" because I just kept unloading more and more out of it like it was bottomless.  I felt like that again...

 New Haircut New Woven Jewelry in Progress New Hat Rack  which needs New Hat  New Thai Restaurant in HMB--very good! The Walk  Elementary School Farm

I'm now on my third frittata in 10 days--easier than making a hot breakfast from scratch everyday.  This is my best looking one so far: ...fresh asparagus sautéed with onions, celery, carrots, zucchini, chicken sausage, with 3 kinds of cheese.  Decadent.  While this was cooking, I finally got my rayon chenille warped, which took many extra hours due to a snarl I got in the yarn when working with it.  grrr.  It's variegated, and for weft, I'm using tencel for the first time after attending my weaving group yesterday and hearing how well it works.   Usually I warp and weft with chenille.   Here's some close-up views of it: Here you can see the warp on top that hasn't yet been woven, the color of the tencel, which is turquoise, and below is the warp after being woven,  I'm loving how it looks and hope it finishes as softly as usual with chenille. I'm also working on more woven bracelets.  The most recent is one wi...

  I have taken over the kitchen.  Not by desire, by necessity.  I haven't done too badly and only forgot I had something on the stove once.  I'm very out of the habit, thanks to a husband who loves to cook and experiment in the kitchen.  I don't even know where to find everything!   Matthew had shoulder surgery on Thurs, which is why I'm in charge of the meals.  All of them...he likes 3 a day.  I'm more of a grazer during the day.  Until now.   On Friday late afternoon, I decided to make a frittata so he would have something for breakfast that's warm and easy to heat up if I'm unavailable (so far, it's day 4, and I haven't been unavailable yet).  I also fried onions and potatoes and reheated meatballs for dinner that night, then made the coffee for the next day, cleaned up the kitchen and crashed.  The day before, surgery day, lasted from 11 am until getting home at 8 pm and serving take-away food I'd picked up on the way hom...

   Out for a walk in the new Habitat area, exploring and meeting neighbors.  There's a cul-de-sac above us that isn't developed, but obviously people have discovered it.  I thought this was a great "art installation."  Unfortunately, there was also garbage dumped up there as well.  The property is divided into lots, some of which have power and some have water ready for homes to be built, but we've heard that they started subdividing that parcel in 1979, so luckily they're in no hurry to sell off each lot.   We met more neighbors.  This couple is around the corner from us, and she has been decorating her yard with both artificial and real flowers.  The silk flowers are because she wants color during the winter, but also they're guaranteed not to be eaten by the many deer.  She's planted a thousand bulbs of daffodils and more in her yard, plus added many bird baths (I think she said 7) and bird houses to attract them.  She said...