happy stuff.

so i thought about titling yesterday’s post “you learn something new every day” and then decided not to.  but then i learned something new again today and couldn’t resist using it for today’s title.  here are some of the new things i learned today: 1.  backlit photos are not necessarily a bad thing.  which do [...]

hooray for restaurant week!  we experienced our first restaurant week last winter, and apparently there’s also a summer week.  after drooling over all of the menus offered, we finally chose quivey’s grove stone house restaurant.  maybe not the most glamorous of all the options, but the one menu that made both of us equally hungry.  [...]

my weekend sort of started on friday this week (i say “sort of” because i had to work a few hours on saturday) and i spent the friday morning taking pictures of a friend’s children.  it was a new experience for me to try to photograph three mobile children.  usually, at least one of them [...]

i rode my bike to work again today. i’ve been averaging twice a week bicycle commuting and since i only work four days a week, i think that’s pretty good! anyway, this morning, when i left the house, it was cool enough that i wanted to put on my sleeves (tubes of fabric that i [...]

i just got back from a very relaxing weekend at a cabin that belongs to the parents of some very good friends. we went there two years ago for the first time and i had such great memories that i was very much looking forward to this trip and it did not disappoint. we drove [...]

thanks for all of the quilt love!  it is a different (and bigger) sense of accomplishment to finish a long-term project like this one instead of the ones that that i usually finish in a week or so.  but i love both kinds of projects for different reasons and will probably continue to do a [...]

this evening, mr. happy stuff and i went to the local (fancypants) sundance theater to see animation show #4. we both loved animation show #1 and seem to have missed #’s 2 & 3 (soon to be remedied via dvd) so we were very excited to be able to watch this on the big screen. [...]

so, sometime back in february, i had this e-mail conversation with a friend: me: “which of these do you like best? http://www.seymour.k12.wi.us/rle/art/images/artists/Jasper-Johns.jpg http://www.hencethe.com/images/art/big/JasperJohnsGrey.jpg http://home.att.net/~jamestata/johns_green_target.jpg http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Jasper-Johns/Target-1974-Print-C10071319.jpeg http://www.masterworksfineart.com/inventory/johns/1web.jpg no reason, just curious. la, la, la…. a: It would definitely be between the first two… (in my opinion, of course…).. probably the second one I like the best. [...]

but we were last weekend!  we had a fun time visiting mr. h-s’s family (although i very much regret that i seem to have forgotten to photograph any people–only other random stuff.  what was i thinking?!) and chatting about quilting and family news and going to a local farmer’s market and shopping for fabric (i’ll [...]

this year, we’re spending fourth of july weekend with my parents-in-law.  they live in small town america that’s too small to have their own big fireworks display, so instead, lots of local families shoot off their own fireworks.  we took a walk around the neighborhood last night (which was, at times, slightly terrifying) and were [...]