tart cherry preserves - a taste of my childhood! Ugh. Once again, where has the time gone? Well. I have  been making things and takin...

2015 is my year of the WIP (Works-in-Progress), by which I mean, working on finishing up old WIPs (and jettisoning those projects that I...

Hard to believe it's already time; the weather this year is off - I keep asking myself, is it El Nino or more serious climate change?...

    Sorry for my long absence here. I realized, last week, that since I started this blog while I was in grad school, this month mark...

Here's news - though anyone reading this blog has probably already seen my update on facebook, or been called, etc. - I finally lande...

Last week, in the face of some very obvious physical manifestations of stress, I took a "day off." I didn't work on profe...

Well. Time flies. I haven't posted. What's been happening? I proofread a couple of books for an employer (one rush job that put m...

Growing up, Italian food was, like, the height of seductive cuisine in my world. In any TV show, people who were dating, people who were ...

ink, acrylic, paper collage on paper prints available here More studies, more experiments, more practice, more discoveries - all ...

Lately, it seems, I've got autumn on the brain. Seattle's basking in the heat of August - the most reliably warm and dry month o...

Ah, alpine blackberries. So tiny, so sweet, so floral, so much harder to pick than those Himalayan monsters that run rampant everywhere i...

I just realized I hadn't posted yet. Seattle's experiencing a real heatwave right now and I am feeling the effects - lethargy, cr...

Yeah, I think I may have enough jam made (and to make) to do an entire week of jam posts. I might also be getting a little sick of jam, a...

In Czech, the word for the month of June is " červen," "the red month," because it is the month in which red things b...

ink and acrylic on paper prints available here Okay, I really like this one. This one went out late, because of the time involved...

Ah, last night! I'm sorry! I was scrubbing chair cushions and the front walk, managed to squeeze in my workout before Cass got home f...

In this year's second installment of preserved flowers: candied lilac blossoms. I never realized you could candy lilacs; honestly, I ...

Last year, I pinned pictures from Gardenista's lovely DIY post about how to make traditional Japanese pickled sakura, or cherry bloss...

It's May 1. On the old European agrarian schedule, this is the start of summer (and hence, the solstice is called "midsummer,...

I have an older brother who just celebrated a birthday last week. I've spent the month of September casting about for a good, origina...