Little things you can do . . .

Today’s topic: Ways to save the world
My dad is some kind of secret shopper for the post office.  I’ve never really understood it, but he gets postcards from the usps and makes some kind of telephone report on the day they arrive.  It’s all very mysterious, but to me it’s clear that he’s just trying [...]

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Our wedding

No, I don’t plan to start referring to myself in the third person as The Baroness.

We ran off to the Huntington Garden, where we got engaged, with just a friend to marry us and our amazing photographer, Jennifer Rau. That night we mini-mooned at a fancy hotel with our little friend the [...]

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I *heart* Knitty

There’s a special magic that happens a few times a year, when I stumble across (or, duh, get an e-mail telling me) that the new Knitty is up. I’m nervous, excited, hopeful . . . and I navigate over to www.knitty.com to spend the next hour (ok, thirty minutes) devouring the new patterns. [...]

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Butter swan

Yes, this is a little swan made out of butter, and next to it is half a lemon, included for scale. I don’t know why, perhaps it was the champagne, but I became obsessed with this little guy and took about 20 photos that came out all bleached before I finally walked [...]

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