blog #328 >> create your own relatives

If you don't have any old family photos, don't despair...
just make your own!
That's what Travis Louis did, see his website here.
Being a little bit jealous of other people's old family photos, he created his own. And just so long as you're creating your own, you might as well make them really interesting. After all everyone loves Uncle Six Eyes!







Oddly enough I can kinda see my family in these people too.
T

blog #327 >> Great-Grandma Kohl

I found this great picture of my great-grandma and I think she looks just like me. But no one else seems to see it. It's mainly the nose I suppose, and the hair, and a little of the eyes perhaps, and she has that smug smile I get when I'm trying really hard not to smile... well anyhow. Her name was Effie Cordelia Kirchem Kohl. Her husband was Louis Phillip Kohl. And she was born in Logan, Ore. That part of my family came to Oregon right after the Oregon Trail. I'm going to see if I can get some more pictures scanned in the future. I love looking through them and thinking, "Oh, this one looks like my sister, and this one looks like my uncle, and this one like my cousin, etc. etc. etc."

T

blog #326 >> Lappy's Back!

I'm so happy to have my little laptop back in my arms again. I've spent almost my entire day replacing the missing files and setting up a bigger and better back-up system. It's kinda like unpacking a new house, but with files, and an archive drive. But even with all my technological worries, I still manged to get some other things accomplished today in between downloading.




This morning I took advantage of the nice weather and restored my new bed, vanity and an old in-table with some dark wood scratch remover. Now they look like new... well, sort of.


I watered the garden and picked a few more tomatoes, it seems like they're never ending!

Obviously it's getting late, and I hope I can get this dress finished this weekend. (Unfortunately, the dress is in the dark part of the photo.)

And I finished embroidering these dolls for my sisters.




I suppose that's all at the moment.
T

blog #325 >> Sense and Sensibility... and Sea Monsters

I actually really want to read this book now, this makes me just laugh and laugh and laugh...
T

blog #324 >> More Stuff

I don't have much time at the moment, so very quickly, here are some more projects I've been working on.

An owl to sell at Skating with Scissors.

A plum pie.

My new skirt... and

Three of the fabric paper dolls for my sisters' Etsy store Baby Dear. I love their new faces.

All for now,

T

blog #323 >> Birdhouse In Your Soul

My mom sent this to me this morning, and I love them so much. I think I'm going to need to finally learn this song on the accordion.
T

blog #322 >> Missing My Laptop

Dear Lappy,
Please come home soon. I miss you terribly. Not that I'm not thankful for this other laptop that my parents let me borrow. But it's not you, and it doesn't even have Photoshop on it. Plus I keep on pressing "Alt" instead of "Ctrl." I hope they finish fixing you soon, really soon. But until then, I'll just keep on thinking about all the great times we had together, and dreaming of all the things we've yet to do.
Your ever loving,
T

• • • • • •

I finally got this borrowed laptop to connect to the Internet. I'm not even sure how I did it, but it works. Hopefully my Internet withdrawls are at an end. I have to admit though that I've gotten a lot accomplished this week without a computer in the house. I played the accordion every night, got some sewing finished and made some amazing dinners. However, the Internet has become my main source of communication and I'm sort of lost now without it.

Let's see...
While my computer was down I made these earrings to sell at our craft fair.



And I bought this bedroom set. I don't have the bed up yet, and I'm still looking for a matching dresser, but I love the vanity.
(I also really miss Photoshop, and I realize that I need to clean my camera lens and not always clone stamp out the spot.)



Also, just a reminder to come visit me and Trina and DoorMouse Designs at:
Skating With Scissors Craft Bazaar
Presented by the Rose City Rollers



Sept. 19th 11am-7pm
Oaks Park Hangar in Sellwood
Portland, Oregon