http://seamaidenstudios.com Tue, 12 May 2009 23:21:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I love sweaters, especially cardigans, and wear them all year round.  Of course in the summer, cotton, linen, and bamboo (notice how plant fibers seem to be more appropriate for spring and summer, the growing seasons) are the fibers of choice.  A couple of weeks ago I got it in ... http://seamaidenstudios.com/2009/05/12/summer-cotton-cardie/ I had a lovely (LOVELY) bike ride this afternoon after finishing my chores.  Rode up the High Road and to the footbridge at the causeway.  It was gorgeous getting there, gorgeous actually there, and gorgeous on the way home. I'm just full of gorgeous....  So, while I'm in this feel-good moment, ... http://seamaidenstudios.com/2009/04/26/four-month-check-up/ Yep, you heard it right - I have transportation.... with actual wheels on it... No hoofing it for this girl anymore.  Behold my vehicle: Twenty-four gears and two wheels of pure leg power!  I've even souped it up with brakes, reflectors, lights, a basket, and rear wheel rack!  Oh yeah, baby, ... http://seamaidenstudios.com/2009/04/12/ive-got-wheels-transportation-a-vehicle/ Spring projects abound chez moi!  I'm working on so many things - some work related (writing and submitting workshop/class proposals like mad - I've already landed a gig at the Fiber College and have had a promising conversation with the owner of my local yarn shop to teach lace knitting ... http://seamaidenstudios.com/2009/04/07/what-ive-been-working-on-lately/ Come this September, I will be teaching two classes at the Fiber College.  Details to come, but I'll be teaching Let Them Wear Socks and Contemporary Papermaking: Watermarks.  (I'm so excited!) http://seamaidenstudios.com/2009/03/17/news-flash/ I am a vegetarian, and have been one a majority of my life (during my childhood I tried, but more often than not my mother found the napkin with discarded meat).  I've always enjoyed the residual benefit of vegetarianism - a lower food bill than my carnivorous loved ones, but ... http://seamaidenstudios.com/2009/03/16/urban-homesteading-or-the-recession-is-kicking-my-butt/ Today as I was walking home from one of my jobs, I heard birds. A cacophony of birds calling to one another. One's voice rose over all of the others - wheeeeep-wheep, wheeeeep-wheep.  He sounded like he was in the tree above me calling to his mate as if to ... http://seamaidenstudios.com/2009/03/13/busy-as-bees/ Oh, how I wish it were spring!  But it's not and, up here where I live, won't be for at least another month and a half.  So what is one to do? Unleash your inner activist.  Pack away all of your winter clothes - all of them - in a public ... http://seamaidenstudios.com/2009/03/12/march-madness/ I am a member of the Women's History Project Committee at my local library.  Every March we have an art show (the kick off event) and programming (talks, presentations, panel discussions) celebrating women's achievements in conjunction with a specific theme.  This year we chose Women and Nature as the theme.  I chair ... http://seamaidenstudios.com/2009/03/06/spring-art-show/ **SPOILER ALERT**  If you have not seen The Sixth Sense or The Life Before Her Eyes, you may not want to read this post.... yet. Okay, I'm becoming dimmer as I age, and this does not sit well with me.  Right now I'm thinking that door hinges are smarter than I ... http://seamaidenstudios.com/2009/02/18/serious-brain-cells-have-died-im-so-bummed/