summertime: wildflowers. long walks in the evening.  100 speed film. bare feet.  festivals.  corn from roadside stands. open windows. al fresco dinners. lemonade. the smell of sunscreen. wedding invitations.  frisbee golfing. fresh-plucked tomatoes.  freckles & lemon juice in my hair.  kebabs. adventures.
( * photos taken on Saturday, across the road from my in-laws’ house)

I’ve loved the The Dresden Plate/Circle  design ever since I saw my friend Jen sewing one while ago.  It was a really popular quilt design in the 1920’s and 1930’s and I think it’s so fun and pretty. 

{ photo credts: 1, 2, 3 & 4 }
I have too many half-finished quilts right now to start a [...]

“You know what I love about cooking? I love that after a day when nothing is sure and when I say nothing, I mean nothing. You can come home and absolutely know that if you add egg yolks to chocolate and sugar and milk, it will get thick. That’s such a comfort.”
- Julie Powell (Julie [...]

I’ve been working on this little cathedral pillow for a few weeks and it’s finally finished!

I used this tutorial from Warmth in the North to make the pillow.  Cathedral quilts involve a lot of folding & ironing (it’s basically origami with fabric) and a lot of hand-sewing, so it was a time-consuming (but fun) project. [...]

Yesterday, I went to a really awesome event with my friends Jason and JD – Zombie Walk Columbus!  Basically a bunch of people dress up as zombies and meet at Goodale Park, then walk up and down High Street.  There were also people dressed up as “the resistance”, and they staged some zombie shoot-outs.  I [...]

trees. light. spiders. dusk. snapping turtles. poison ivy. kisses. geese.

Over the weekend, our friends’ band “Old Worlds” opened for one of my all-time favorite bands “The Appleseed Cast”… it was super exciting and an amazing show.  It was nice to drink some PBR, listen to some sweet music and hang out with friends I haven’t seen in a while.
A few natural-light photos I took [...]