Me: Please don’t walk down the stairs backwards. It’s dangerous. Huckle (2.75 year old): It’s not dangerous. It’s marvelous! Me (trying to keep a straight face): Did you just say it’s marvelous? Huckle (smiling widely): Yes I did! This kid. How do you respond to that? Huckle peppers his speech with the most interesting and […]
Today is one of my favorite days of the year. (Not happier than any day where cake is involved, obviously, like a birthday, but a good day nonetheless.) That’s because today is the day that the Social Security Administration released the most popular baby names for 2012. I love talking about baby names. For years, […]
I feel a bit silly posting this today, when the high is 85°, but this post has been in my drafts folder mocking me since mid-February, and if I don’t put it up now, I might as well wait another six months! Here in San Francisco, the temperature is typically between 55° and 70° year round. […]
Last year my sister gave me Fabric-by-Fabric: One-Yard Wonders by Rebecca Yaker and Patricia Hoskins for my birthday to go along with the new sewing machine my mom surprised me with. The premise of the book is simple. Various different projects – 101 to be exact – that you can make with 1 yard […]
A couple of months ago I saw a commercial for Oz the Great and Powerful. It stopped me in my tracks and took my breath away. Not necessarily because it looked amazing, but because I love the Oz universe (and somehow missed that they were making another Oz movie). That book pictured above? My copy […]
I don’t spend a lot of time on LinkedIn these days. I do read the weekly update emails, and, occasionally, click through. Not necessarily because I think a new position among my connections will help me with what I’m currently doing (especially as I’m not entirely sure what that is anyway), but because most of […]
Yesterday, I promised my two-and-a-half-year-old son H that we would go see the Dutch windmill at the Queen Wilhelmina Garden in Golden Gate Park near Ocean Beach. Somehow, we never quite made it out the door. So I was determined to make it out today and set a goal of leaving at 10:00 a.m. True […]
A few nights ago my husband and I decided we had to eat the old ground turkey we had in our fridge. When I say “old”, I really mean old. The expiration date was November 2011. Of course, the turkey had not been in our fridge the whole time. It had been in the deep […]
So I decided I wanted to make a cake for Inauguration Day. From scratch. Decorated with frosting, also made from scratch. I’ve made this Vanilla Buttercream Frosting from Savory Sweet Life a few times before, but I needed a dead simple cake recipe. I found a really simple yellow cake recipe on About.com, which even […]
The Details: This dress is a slight modification of the dress in the Long Sleeve Peasant Dress Tutorial by Amy of Little Bean Workshop at Prudent Baby. The main changes are (1) I scaled it down for my then-4-month-old-then-6-month-old-now-7-month-old, M, using one of her dresses for reference and (2) I just hemmed the sleeves without adding elastic. Instead […]
