swing thing.

Just shy of turning 26, I have become one of those aunts that puts customized labels in her handknits. This was a pleasant project. It’s Swing Thing from Little Turtle Knits. I used Wool of the Andes from Knitpicks in the popular avacado colourway. These photos are pre-blocking.
It has been very warm in Victoria [...]

groundhog weekend.

There’s nothing I love more than a lazy weekend. After a particularly hairy week at work, I came home on Friday night, put on my pajamas, ate comforting food, and let my brain go mushy while watching back-to-back-to-back episodes of CSI: Miami. How sweet it was.
The rest of the weekend followed suit: sleeping in, moving [...]

what fall brings.

Sometimes I am amazed by how quickly time passes without even really noticing it. Silas and I have been residents of Victoria for a month and a half now but it still only feels like last week that we were driving through the Rockies to get here. September seemed to go by slowly, being without [...]

happy ness

The last four days were spent in the boreal forest of northern Saskatchewan at the Ness Creek Music Festival. It was a lovely weekend full of sun, heat, camping, dirt, stinky outhouses, hippies high on life (and other substances), beautiful stars in the night sky, northern lights, and good friends.
There was swimming in Nesslin Lake [...]