By Tara, on July 30th, 2009% Each season I make a little list of the pleasures I want to soak in. I call them manifestos, but they’re really just love letters to the season. These seasonal lists are my own little things-to-do-before-the-moment-passes. I hope to keep listing these, every Thursday, as a reminder to soak it in over the weekend (and as a mid-week cheer-up).
This next week is going to be packed with summery travely adventury goodness.
I want fully enjoy (and document with lots of photos):
Travelling by train, plane and Seattle’s great bus system (all with my new wheel). Staying with my college roomates, Having lunch (and running errands – she’s so sweet!) with Eileen. Selling yarn, meeting knitters and having a great time at Urban Craft Uprising. Exploring Portland and hitting every donut, coffee, and yarn stores I can. Having dinner at Cairene’s with a bunch of lovely fellow small-biz owners/friends. Going . . . → Read More: Summer Manifesto – West Coast Edition
By Tara, on June 4th, 2009% This week I’m on vacation on the lovely shore of Emerald Isle. But because I love my work, the Boutique is still open with new yarns everyday and I’m still talking to customers via email. So I’m away but still checking in. Each day I’ll be posting a few pictures from the vacation, especially the yarny inspiration.
Today I recovered from a super-mild case of sun poisoning (ugh) by laying around inside: Marathon Scrabble games and piecing a quilt.
By Tara, on June 3rd, 2009% My Birthday! We did it all today: beach-swimming, yarn shopping, flower-sniffing, go-kart-driving, eating on the pier.
By Tara, on May 30th, 2009% This week I’m on vacation on the lovely shore of Emerald Isle. But because I love my work, the Boutique is still open with new yarns everyday and I’m still talking to customers via email. So I’m away but still checking in. Each day I’ll be posting a few pictures from the vacation, especially the yarny inspiration.
Today (Saturday) we got up early and drove the 8 hours to the coast of North Carolina. We stopped at a…colorful fruit stand, unpacked in our gorgeous beach house and hit the beach
View from the living room
Beach house at sunset
By Tara, on May 5th, 2009% Each year, for the last 3 years my mom and I have loaded my car with knitting projects, magazines, and coffee and driven to Maryland Sheep & Wool. The first year, we drove from Ohio – a 12 hour drive! This year, it was a much shorter trip, just 5-6 hours (depending on how many times we stop for coffee!)
We left Friday morning, drove to Frederick, MD (note to self: you must stop at Zazzy’z because there is not another coffee shop until Staunton).
Frederick’s an adorable town with a nice little downtown with lots of boutiques (like The Muse), restaurants and ice cream.
We met up with Mia and meandered around town.
I don’t eat seafood but my mom loves crabs, so we had dinner at May’s – endless crabs for Mom, a fantastically broiled chicken for me.
Saturday dawned rainy and dreary but I leapt out . . . → Read More: Maryland Sheep & Wool 2009
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