3 day weekends, every weekend.

Cape Arago



Bastendorff


Bandon




Seven Devils










Shore Acres

working for the weekend?

I'm shooting for a post a week... doable right? I suppose I don't really care if anyone every reads this, I just like have a little mini collection of photos with random thoughts. Plus I know there are at least a couple of dedicated ladies out there :)

So I've been thinking quite a bit lately about the whole working for the weekend thing. what a damn waste. that means you spend the majority of your week bummed out and you are constantly posting on facebook about how blah blah poo pooo your job is and how you got sick again and how you only want to spend the rest of your life in bed with your boyfriend and a pint of ben and jerrys.

once again it is a damn waste of air and my mental capacity to see this junk posted constantly. I'm about ready to go on a positivity campaign to get people to forget about all of that. Everyone gets sick and everyone hates their job every now and then, but it's nice to be able to focus on the good things or maybe even the humor found in the poo situations of everyday life right?

Now!! to highlight the time of the week everyone loves (because we all love days to sleep in, go on walks in the daytime, stay out late, clean our respective places of living, what i've declared as sewing sundays, drinking coffee out of the hungover cat mug...)

CONAN!!! no big deal


Hiking with Curtis & Cam (those good lookers below), baby bananas & multitudes of millipedes




Sewing Sunday, ftw


Steven's first time at the Oregon Coast... <3 my friends




Watching the sunset with Marissa & the huge swell

winter in a flash

Really though... did we have winter? With all of the driving back and forth, learning new things, walks, lack of sewing & abundance of traveling to visit friends and family I've been neglecting my photos.

I made it up north a few times to visit with Hillary. We embarked on the usual walk, sfny pizza and the small but surprisingly interesting art museum. Portland is always on my mind and with the new flat a trip to ikea is probably in order.





These are from where I work. Mostly I sit at the computer, but occasionally I can get out on the trail system for a break, a post work walk or to help out with visiting schools. The skunk cabbage is thriving now with its large yellow flowers and soon they will be covering the wetland area.




Buddy is adjusting slowly to my frequent absence.


And this is why living in a small coast town isn't really all that bad.







Bits of the new place with too much space. yes I just said that. It still remains undecorated and mostly organized. Retrieving my furniture has become quite the task but my papers and such are waiting patiently unrolled and protected in the sewing room closet. Good things to come!





Some small handmade items for a marine biology grad and some lovely girl's birthdays. So quick and fun. I've got a mad obsession with "quilting" and stitching things on my machine. The blue ones were made with a pre-embroidered fabric, but I added to it. The crab fabric was from a remnant at ikea and the blue fabric is featured on a cotton lawn dress my mom so patiently made for me 3 years ago when my demands were high and my skills were subpar. I'm not quite sure I could even make it today. The little pouches are lined with some amy butler love flannel that I turned into a pair of pj pants. They are insanely bright and loud but I love them.


I keep finding myself hording scraps for something ambitious like a quilt but always wind up using them for lining or a new project. Someday I will commit to making a quilt and perhaps the new sewing room and the ability to leave all of it laying all over the floor will help.

fog... typical

I've been back in the mecca for a couple of weeks and somehow have only made it to the beach two times... I'm going to work on that this week.


little sandpipers are the best!


so is nereocystis


& my xtratufs

last bit from coos bay

Its been much too long if i'm uploading photos from there, but I had to highlight strange summertime fog phenomenons.

and you should expect many more photos from farther away places to come!