Introducing Ross Wellington. My husband, Mark (aka MVH), and his longtime friend, Brian Ellis, have been working on a graphic novel called “Ross Wellington” since 2004. Ross Wellington is the lone alien survivor of the Roswell crash, and he makes a living as a private detective. The story is sci-fi meets noir, and it never […]
Month: July 2011
More knit woes
Knit fabric woes, not knitting woes. I broke up with knitting a while ago. Β I wasn’t going to blog about this, because it seemed like a nothing event: I was going to hem a knit skirt. Borophyll. It was going to take 10 minutes. Β I decided how long the skirt should be, cut […]
Summer custard
Summer rubies. Β I’ve made this custard twice. The first time I made it with peaches, and the second time I made it with strawberries. I’m sure I’ll make it again with another fruit that’s on sale at the grocery. Β It’s a dead-easy recipe that takes about 15 minutes to throw together, and there’s […]
Wishful Thinking: Sorbetto top
Wishful Thinking shares projects that catch my eye β and their likelihood of completion. The Sorbetto top. The Sorbetto tank from Colette Patterns was a freebie this spring, and I feel like it showed up on all sorts of sewing blogs. Casey over at Elegant Musings even riffed on the pattern and gave it a […]
Bought instead of made
The order is placed for these nursing pads. Remember in this post how I talked about how easy it would be to make nursing pads? Β I still think it would be easy. But that didn’t stop me from ordering more pads this past weekend. Β I promised MVH I’d start work on sewn stuff […]
What They Made: Picnic table
Β MVH works on one half of our picnic table. Β Milwaukee is a picnic table town. Drive around and spy on backyards, and you’ll see it’s true. We have a nice concrete patio β nothing fancy β and until this weekend, its only occupant was a bird feeder on a shepherd’s hook. Two benches convert […]