It’s called OpArt, you can see the pattern here. It took me – oh, about 6 months to make… I fear that my new blogging hobby has put a crimp on my knitting time – just a bit. I used Sublime – cashmere merino silk DK, and a lot of it. More than the pattern called for actually. It’s knit… (more…)
Here’s a moment in time – captured on Topsail Beach, NC last fall. We were at my sister-in-law’s wedding waiting to get our professional photos snapped. This one captures the mood of the moment very nicely. I love my boys The warm colors in the foreground and the cool colors in the background give this photo a nice balance. Again… (more…)
Here we have Yellowstone again – my inspiration photo for the old bathroom remodel. This photo of the Grand Prismatic Pool has so many colors in it – it could inspire more than one room in my house… I like this palette because it has a cooler end and a warmer end… that mimics nature in fact; warmer colors for… (more…)
And there was wine. Pretty much from start to finish. My weekend away was fabulous – Mom came out to hang out with the kids so that Eric and I could join friends for a weekend getaway to Chicago. Despite the long list of places that you’re about to see – it was really relaxing… I suppose that when you’re… (more…)
Here’s another photo that Eric took. He was literally out in the field for work this time when these colors and textures caught his eye. I’m beginning to see that natural color palettes are synonymous with ‘neutral’ color palettes. Maybe. No wonder most people like them – they’re everywhere. I’m partial to the left end of this palette – looks… (more…)
Beauty at a truck stop Ahhh… the memories…. We were driving home for the holidays – the first stop on our 750-mile-in-one-day-commute (with-two-kids-I-might-add). It was an otherwise crappy stop (literally – the son had a bit of a blowout) along the highway in western Indiana. Eric had been driving, the weather was terrible, the kids were complaining, Clayton was a… (more…)
For real. Here’s how it went down on Thursday, February 11, 2010. I pick up my daughter from school at 3:15… about 1 minute passed by before I heard these words, Mom? We have a Valentine’s day party tomorrow and I have to bring in Valentine’s for everyone. Of course, I should’ve seen it coming… I’m not a fan of… (more…)
This is the Gowganda. A crazy cool rock found up in Ontario – the object of my future end table tiles, and the subject of this weeks Natural Color Palette exercise. Geology Moment: The Gowganda Formation was deposited ~2.3 billion years ago. It has been interpreted to represent to deposits of a glacier into a lake – the darker background… (more…)
My Yellowstone photo has inspired me to see what other color palettes that I can find in my field photos. This will be the first of a series – here it goes. This is a photo from Firehole Canyon in southwestern Wyoming. You can’t tell from this photo – but this picture was taken from a pretty decent elevation. It… (more…)
This is a photo from the Grand Prismatic Pool in Yellowstone National Park. What a cool place to visit. I did fieldwork in Wyoming for about 11 years before I actually stepped my foot inside Yellowstone. I finally had my opportunity to do a little geotourism there during the summer of 2007. My daughter was 3 at the time –… (more…)