everything is well, it’s just been harder to post with the nicer, longer alaska summer days, weekend warrior trips, working full time, and my never ending want/need to take naps after work!  but today is a rainy, dreary day so here i am.

anyway, to explain my tiredness and the blog being the last thing on my mind:  buku (my partner for the past six years) and i are expecting our first child the first week of october!

we are ready and very excited about it – though, it might come out saying “duuuude” as that’s what b says in reference to the growing belly.  we are planning a home, water birth through Geneva Woods Midwifery and Womens Clinic.  they are amazing ladies and we have friends and acquaintances who have had incredible birth experiences through them.  i actually just bought some cloth diapers on craigslist from a lady who had the same midwife as i, and talked to her about her experience for awhile.

so far the pregnancy has been great!  and i’m not sugar coating it.  it’s made me more calm then i’ve ever been.  i didn’t have any of the typical pregnancy symptoms – morning sickness, crazy hormones (ok, maybe like twice), weird cravings, hunger issues, etc..  i don’t really feel pregnant other than being able to fall asleep easily, the expanding belly and milk factory, and the kicks from the inside!  my abilities at work start to wane at around 330pm, but i try to get in there early enough so i’m not completely useless by that time of day…

anyway, enough about being pregnant, i’m sure you will hear more (if i can get it together to blog a little more)!

and an even more important announcement:

buku’s little brother had a baby boy yesterday – i’m an aunt!  tristin michael:

i have been in the garden and sewing a lot.  mostly baby blankets and burp rags as gifts (many friends are expecting) and a few things for myself!  a few friends and i also tie-dyed some onesies (the weird one piece contraptions with the buttons at the crotch – for those of you who don’t know – JODY!).  i will post pics soon.  just want to get this posted.

’til then…

it was a great day – though cloudy – i got to clean my house!

with bda arriving tonight, it needed to be done!

though i did take a trip to titlewave to look through some books and took a  coffee stop at kaladi.

my birthday was great though.  buku is out of town (he is between school and work right now) to check out our new boat and build kiteboards with a buddy, but my friends (i LOVE my friends) made it a fun and happy celebration – complete with presents, humpys dinner, pub quiz (don’t doubt mariah carey, steven seagal or dre’s answers!), and homemade carrot cake (i had a piece for breakfast).

buku took the camera so i don’t have any photos to share.  but i will soon.  there are some homemade gifts that i want to share!

’til then…

Tagged: birthday ]]> http://nowhereslowhandmade.com/2010/05/12/29/feed/ 1 nowhereslow http://nowhereslowhandmade.com/2010/05/09/mama-mia/ http://nowhereslowhandmade.com/2010/05/09/mama-mia/#comments Sun, 09 May 2010 20:59:46 +0000 nowhereslow http://nowhereslowhandmade.com/?p=914 ]]> i hope i am half the mother mine is.

all my craftiness is a result of her.

my ability to giggle when it’s not funny is her fault.

i blame her for my green skin during alaska winters.

and my inability to fill out the back side of jeans.

ash, mom, john, me, ethan

ash, ethan, rupert (@ ‘hello deli’ from the letterman show), mom, alec, me in NYC.

me ruining mom and john’s picture.

buku, ethan, jared, ashley, mom, me.

alec (in the navy – has been living on the east coast and overseas (for the navy) the past few years) and mom.

the last time we were all together was ashley’s high school graduation in 2004!

skyping with mom and john.

the planas (i don’t think jeanne is born yet).  mom is between the two grown men.

she dropped each of us off at college, and went to all of our graduations.  only one more college graduation left – the pressure is on ethan!

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY MOTHER!

Tagged: mothers day ]]> http://nowhereslowhandmade.com/2010/05/09/mama-mia/feed/ 0 nowhereslow wheres alec rupert mom john me mom alec skype moms family http://nowhereslowhandmade.com/2010/05/02/baby-kick/ http://nowhereslowhandmade.com/2010/05/02/baby-kick/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 01:10:06 +0000 nowhereslow http://nowhereslowhandmade.com/?p=903 ]]> everyone seems to be having babies these days.  so i’ve been making baby stuff.

i’ve been knitting small hats and little thumbless gloves (the ones they recommend so your baby won’t poke their eyes out or scratch themselves).  i found this awesome stretchy sock yarn in unisex colors:

notice the pom pon.  i made it with my pom pon maker!

i’m making a few hooded towels knitted out of cotton yarn. super fast and easy:

oh and the ipad cozy i finished last week for my bosses wife.  i really like how it turned out.

during blocking .  the handle was hard to get flat (i know her husband would appreciate my methods):

yesterday i talked corinne (didn’t take much talking) into meeting me at joann’s and we got stuff for baby blankets.  luckily all the flannel prints were on sale!  i got enough fabric for three blankets for $18.

and put this one together last night in about an hour and a half – way too much ironing – but still an easy project!  this is for buku’s little brother who is due in june (i think).  he will also get the dino print one:

more to come!

let me know if you want instructions, i may be posting some on my etsy (which you should check out, lots of cool yarn for sale) soon.

’til then…

]]> http://nowhereslowhandmade.com/2010/05/02/baby-kick/feed/ 1 nowhereslow IMGP6986 IMGP6987 IMGP6953 IMGP6970 IMGP6976 IMGP6978 IMGP6981 http://nowhereslowhandmade.com/2010/04/25/shamwow/ http://nowhereslowhandmade.com/2010/04/25/shamwow/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:27:52 +0000 nowhereslow http://nowhereslowhandmade.com/?p=889 ]]> yesterday was a shiny happy day , but today -  a gloomy day in anchorage (imagine that!) so i took today to catch up on some projects that have been nagging at me – some for weeks.

i finished an ipad cozy for a friend, but won’t post a picture until it is in the recipients hands.  hopefully tomorrow if it dries fast.

i finally got the buttons sewn on the mossy jacket.  it was already cute, but the perfect buttons really complete a project.  they are brown flowers.  this is going to a friend who is not super girly so i was a little scared of the bright pink, but i think the brown buttons balance it out nicely.

i have been spinning my specially dyed purple/grey wool from the sheep shed studio:

and my black cherry kool aid dyed mill ends.  they are kind of difficult to draft and spin because they are such short chunks of fiber.  i hate stopping and going so much.

and mr. richard finally bloomed!  though slow, he’s quite the looker (much like my little sister!):

and the title of my post…  buku got some shamwow chamois from a friend for his birthday.

the other day i was looking for a towel to roll up my yarn in after i wet washed it.  then i remembered the shamwows that were not seeing daylight.  it worked awesome.  especially doubled over.  not that it’s much different from a towel, but it definitely took more moisture out of the yarn than a normal cotton kitchen towel (which is saturated after one squeeze and not reusable after that).  i have been using them to get water out of projects that i block as well.  and the chamois he got are not all ‘shamwow’ brand, so this is definitely not a plug for that annoying infomercial!  so fiber fanatics – invest in some chamois (the ones you get for swimming might even work better)!

’til then…